Remembering the dead – Koh Tao dive master mystery

Twenty-three years before diving instructor Neil Giblin from Birmingham died on Koh Tao last month, a fellow Brummie diver lost his life there. Giblin is the fifth Koh Tao dive master to die on the island where Ian Jacobs, from Sutton Coldfield, died on January 18, 2000. Jacobs was found at the bottom of a well on the island.

Giblin was found deceased in a villa on Koh Tao on January 18, after he didn’t show up for work. Police say he died of natural causes with no sign of struggle.

BirminghamWorld has spoken to Jacob’s brother, Paul, and a friend Mick Lock. Neither believes his death was accidental.

Paul said…

“My brother was a traveller and he was always off around the world. We strongly suspected foul play at the time and we still do.”

Lock, who went to college with Ian, said…

“There was never really any doubt that he’d been murdered amongst me and all our…