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New Chinese Dive Instructor Phuket – Lansy Wong
We would formally like to introduce Aussie Divers Phuket's new Chinese Scuba Diving Instructor, Lansy Wong.
Originally from Henan Province in China and relocated to Hong Kong in 2011. She was working in the insurance industry before she moved to Phuket to become a PADI Pro.
Lansy did her PADI Divemaster Course and PADI Instructor Development Course with Aussie Divers Phuket. She has been trained the the highest standards available with the great team at Aussie Divers Phuket. She did her PADI Instructor Development Course with PADI Gold Course Director Darren Gaspari.
Aussie Divers Phuket can now offer many of our [...]
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Scuba Instructor Andre Engstrom – Svenska – Dansk – Norsk – English
From Helsingborg, Sweden Scuba Instructor Andre Engstrom and left in 2010 as he needed to find a warmer climate to work.
In Sweden Andre worked on a boat between Sweden and Denmark where he served ice cold beers for the passengers. He has allways loved the sea so it was pretty easy to adjust to the life as an instructor.
Andre is unique in the sense that most instructors have fallen in love with scuba diving. Andre actually fell in love with a girl that fell in love with scuba diving and he just tagged along. She has long gone but Andre is still here.
Andre is one of the easiest going dive instructors and exudes the Swedis [...]
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Instructor Profile Alban Fabre Le français Espanol English
Here is another instructor profile featuring Alban Fabre from France, he speaks Le français, Espanol and English.
Alban is our French mascot. Raised with ham and butter cheese baguette and wine in his baby’s bottle. He often left France to live in different parts of the world: USA, Venezuela, Mexico, Singapore and Spain (Barcelona being his city of heart, even before Paris!). Since small kid (small ... it may surprise that he would have been as today he is 2m02 .
Alban is a lover of the sea, sailing the waters of Brittany and spearfishing there. However he first did discover scuba diving. Shortly after he stared the seco [...]
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Do I Need to do a Scuba Diving Refresher?
There are several different ways to refresh your scuba diving skills and knowledge after a period out of the water. Here in Phuket, that could be a pool refresher, Kata beach dive, or diving easy sites like Racha Noi & Racha Yai.
PADI's recommendation in the theory section of the PADI Open Water Course is that you should do a refresher if you have not been diving for six months or longer. This is for a very good reason, it involves your safety. Hopefully after reading this blog you will be able to find the answer to "Do I Need to do a Scuba Diving Refresher?"
Is this applicable to all cases?
The requirement or nee [...]
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Becoming a PADI Rescue Diver
“The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.” ~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
One of the best ways to boost your dive confidence and level of experience is to do the PADI Rescue Course.
Have you ever been diving with a group of divers and a PADI Pro, maybe a divemaster or instructor as a guide. Wondered how the guide seems to be so confident and comfortable underwater? The answer may be simpler than you think!
The PADI Rescue cours [...]
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Simplifying your PADI IDC Choices
Aussie Divers Phuket - Instructor Development Course
Simplifying your PADI Instructor Development choices with Aussie Divers Phuket.
· Be a certified diver for at least 6 months
· Be at least 18 years of age
· Be a PADI Divemaster or equivalent from other agency
· 60 logged dives to start 100 to be certified (let us know if you do not have 100 logged dives)
· Experience in Navigation dives, night dives and deep dives
· Have Emergency First Response Training or equivalent with CPR Training completed in the last 24 months
· Have a medical certificate not older than 12 month and mu [...]
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Learn to Scuba Dive – Understand Your Options
There are a number of different options for those who want to learn to scuba dive. Here they are for you to help you understand.
For some people scuba diving for the first time is a very scary or intimidating experience. It is important to have an experienced and understanding instructor for your first underwater encounter.
If this is your first time underwater you are in for a real adventure. You are about to experience a new world, everything changes, you are light, agile and free like you have never experienced before. Once you have tried it you will never be the same
If you have never been scuba diving before and you want to [...]
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