Mark is the owner of Ocean Tribe and also the PADI Course Director in charge of the courses and dive internships at the centre. He is a regular contributor to dive and online publications and in charge of the training department at Disabled Divers International.
Read more about Mark hereThe Ocean Tribe has a wide range of contacts to help you find a diving job once you graduate from the PADI Divemaster internship or PADI instructor internship as a scuba diving professional. Throughout network of staff diving contacts and former interns we have dive connections in a number of countries around the world and have…
The question of how old do you have to be to do a diving internship is one we get asked a lot. There are very few dive internship age restrictions. The only ones that really matter are the PADI regulation that you must be at least 18 years old to start the PADI Divemaster course.…
One of the most frequent questions that we get about the diving internship is “what is the dive internship accommodation like?”. After all you are going to be spending a long time with us with the different dive internships lasting from 2 weeks all the way up to seven months and longer if you decide…
So you have decided to take a GAP year between school and university, after university or a career break. The dive internships offered by Dive Pro Africa give you a structured program to make sure that you actually get something constructive out of your GAP year, which can improve your CV when you look to…
Ocean Tribe and Buccaneer Diving boast years of experience running PADI professional and marine conservation courses, course packages and internships. We would like to bring to your attention a few things that you should look for when signing up and paying for cheap scuba diving internship packages as there is a large selection of them…
Dive Pro Africa is proud to announce that our PADI Course Director Mark Slingo was featured in the most recent edition of the PADI Members Quarterly the Undersea Journal. In the article Mark talks about the benefits of scuba diving for handicapped divers. Scuba diving has recently been thrust to the forefront of rehabilitation programs…
PADI has recently made a video of why you might want to become a scuba diving instructor or PADI Divemaster. It shows a PADI diving instructor talking about why teaching scuba diving in a tropical location is a dream job for her. Why not give yourself the opportunity on GAP years or as a full…
We were talking to some diver recently and asking the reasons that they originally got into scuba diving and the result was aside from the obvious answers of wanting to see the underwater world and marine conservation, many said that they had seen it on TV in movies when they were younger. So that got…
Scuba diving is one of the best activities that a person with a disability can take part in, with a number of boundaries are immediately broken down. There are very few disabilities that actually prevent you from taking part in diving and in the past our PADI Course Director Mark Slingo has taken paraplegics, quadraplegics,…
The MV Dania is a ship wreck located off the coast of Kenya which was sunk deliberately by Buccaneer Diving in 2002 to form an artificial reef and wreck dive site. 10 years on and it is still the best wreck dive site in the area. Brief History The vessel MV Dania, started its career…