I have just spent 5 weeks diving with Roctopus on their Marine Ecology Ecotrust program with Marine Biologist / Instructor Jade Firstly, thank you Jade! You are an absolutely incredible instructor and marine biologist; your patience with my endless off topic questions and underwater attempts of questions were so greatly appreciated. I can't believe the amount of content you manage to teach in 4 weeks, along with the scientific diving skills we learnt! Your organisation, planning, teaching and diving expertise was unmatched and I think you deserve endless praise for the incredibly high level that you deliver this internship at. I feel like a better diver, scientist and ecologist with your continued guidance throughout the course so thank you SO much! The diversity of dives we completed from surveys, to clean ups, invasive species removal, to artificial reef cleaning and restoration, I never had a boring day! Overall, I was continually challenged throughout my time as Jade tailors the experience depending on your academic background. I started this course with very little diving experience and have left with so much confidence in my control that was needed while being in delicate situations like coral debris removals and transect line laying. If you're considering Roctopus I could not recommend them enough! Jade's internship is once in a lifetime for anyone who wants to learn more about the sea as well as making a real difference to the Koh Tao marine landscape! Thank you endlessly.

I was fortunate enough to learn from Jade in the Marine Conservation and Ecology Internship. I combined this Eco program with my Divemaster training and spent three months on Koh Tao, diving almost every day. The internship consists of morning classes about a range of marine conservation topics (turtles, sharks, marine ecosystems, marine pollution, fish, coral reefs, etc.), followed by at least 2 dives a day from the Ecotrust boat. On these Eco dives, we applied what we learned underwater and did biodiversity surveys, substrate composition surveys, debris dives, coral predation control dives, maintained Ecotrust's artificial reefs, etc. I cannot emphasize enough how pivotal my time on Koh Tao was! I had great fun eco diving with Roctopus and learned a great deal during my time there. Jade is a wonderful teacher and a really dedicated conservationist that really inspires you to care more for the ocean and its many denizens. Because of this program I discovered a new passion for the marine world and decided to shift my professional career to marine conservation. I truly miss the lifestyle of diving every day, caring for the oceans, and having fun with the fantastic people at Roctopus. Thanks for the good times :)

So my colleagues and I participated 5-days Ecological Diver course lead by Jade and her team. It’s part of company offered volunteering time-off program. Honestly this is one of the best diving course I’ve ever taken. I recommend every diver to learn this course with Jade in the time length they can afford. The team and especially Jade is really patient, helpful, knowledgeable, safety conscious and FUN crew to dive and learn from. It’s very rare to find a great diving instructor with marine biology master degree who also truly cares the marine life everyday, that’s Jade and her program! There are a lot of takeaways, personally, firstly it made me a much better diver in terms of buoyancy skills, air consumption, trim etc. More importantly, it builds up my knowledge and awareness of fish, corals’s health, ocean fishing, pollution situation. I start assessing fish and coral health during fun dive, using less plastics, picking up ghost net, bottles during diving, etc. Basically applying what I’ve learnt from the course in practice and every little helps! After return to UK, we will start suggesting other colleagues(divers)from all over the world to join this program at different time of the year as VTO activity. Thank you Jade once again for offering a such memorable great week!