Following the successful PADI IE on Malapascua at the end of October, the newly certified PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors have all been very keen to gain extra skills and qualifications. Over the last week we have conducted various PADI Specialty Instructor courses and had lots of fun and seen some great sights too…
Simulating an 'Emergency Decompression Stop' during Deep Specialty Instructor training...
A thresher shark - spotted during Reef Shark Awareness training...
And this little fellow was spotted during the Wreck Specialty training...
The new instructors are all now PADI Enriched Air, Wreck and Deep Specialty Instructors and various other courses have been taken by some of them too. We have also completed training in Digital Underwater Photography, Emergency Oxygen Provider, Underwater Naturalist and of course Reef Shark Awareness. Over the next couple of days we will also be completing Search & Recovery, Night and Underwater Navigator Specialty training as well as others…
Using a reel during Wreck Specialty training...
Help spread the word about the plight of sharks...
Earning PADI Specialty Instructor ratings is a great way of improving your dive skills, teaching methods and, perhaps most importantly, of increasing your employability – making it even easier to find that dream job in paradise…
Assembling the oxygen unit whilst 'blindfolded'...
There are a couple of PADI Specialty instructor ratings that are also available to PADI Divemasters. Divemasters can also become qualified to teach the Digital Underwater Photography specialty and the Emergency Oxygen Provider specialty. If you’re a Divemaster thinking of becoming an instructor in the future and are curious about teaching, then this is a great way to gain some great experience of working with students before completing a PADI Instructor Development Course.
During Digital Underwater Photography training, we had a look at post-dive production, and went from this....
To this...
If you like to know more about professional level PADI training, please contact me via e-mail for more info…
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