The answer to the above is you have lots, here is a selection of example questions and some guide answers from IDC Guide that covers divers wanting to learn in Phuket in Thailand. This location has only been used as its one we have a better personal experience of. If you are a dive centre […]
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Dear Fellow Divers, I got my DM licence about 9 years and it is now that I would like to finally get the instuctor licence. I am flying to Puerto Rico on 18th July where i should stay about a week yet if there is any IDC possibility I would stay more. After that I
Does your dive career ever stop? I guess you are the only one that knows, personally after diving and teaching for a few intensive years I am now only diving on holidays when the situation arises. I sometimes wish that I had bought the dive centre that I ran in Phuket but sometimes am just
PADI continue their march toward being environmentally friendly by using electronic manuals to go with their electronic (online) course registration forms (PIC Online) Available to all PADI 5 Star Retail and Resort Members are the PADI eManuals Open Water Diver contains: – PADI Open Water Diver manual Online – Slate – Recreational Dive Planner (RDP
Found this old conversation I had with another Instructor when I was an instructor there and it sheds a little light of the work situation and the way you as a new Scuba Instructor has to be a bit versatile to take whatever job you get offered initially to get your name well known. Instructor
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If you run a dive operation in Thailand you will need to be a member of the Thailand Diving Association (TDA) This is largely a big admin exercise for dive shop owners and is another cost / stress / hassle to running a dive centre in Thailand. Having personally applied and been accepted into the
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Think you are going to spend all your dive career in the water having fun? If you are lucky enough to run or own a dive centre or you are a freelance Instructor or become office manager within a dive centre then you will need to deal with a huge amount of emailed enquiries every
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Another day and another application for a Divemaster position crosses our desk, the possibility to get employment at a desirable / hot / tropical dive centre location when you don’t know the owner by an email application is very close to 0%. To give yourself at least a small chance of employment you need to
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Think you can take advantage of your employer; the Course Director or the Dive Centre? you need to think again as the dive world is a small place as these two emails demonstrate where Dive Instructors have acted with little integrity or deliberately illegally all it takes is for one dive centre owner to email
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Course Director Overview – This is an example overview / summary of the Course Director, each PADI five star IDC or CDC should have a course director review on their website, the following is for a great PADI Course Director I knew and worked with in Phuket, Thailand. Bjorn took his first breath underwater back
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