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Working in Phuket Scuba Diving Instructor Divemaster
Here is some information about working in Phuket as a scuba diving instructor or divemaster.
As a scuba diving business owner in Phuket hardly a day goes by where I don’t get an email requesting employment opportunities here in Phuket. Here is what you will need to do to work in the Phuket Scuba Diving Industry and a Instructor or Divemaster. And why not, Phuket is one of the best places in the world to work, live and teach scuba diving.
These requests come from both PADI Divemasters and PADI Instructors and often emails also have them wishing to work for free in lieu of course fees or even just for free diving. However, T [...]
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Work as a Pro # 2 – PADI Divemaster
Imagine a job where you have the opportunity to live and work in a vast range of warm tropical countries. Places such as Thailand, Fiji, the Caribbean, Mexico, Maldives and many more. You get to do what you love doing… scuba diving. Seeing the best the underwater world has to offer. Getting to meet people from many different countries. Get to wear shorts and flip flops to work each day and be free of the day-to-day grind of city. If you think you can handle this the welcome to one of the best jobs in the world and get paid for it.
The Phuket dive industry employs many divemasters through the liveaboard season (October through to [...]
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Work as a Pro #1 – Tour Leader
There are lots of different jobs you can work as a scuba diving pro, a boat tour leader is one.
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Here in Phuket we have a vast range of day trip boats that hold a number of scuba divers and snorkelers ranging from 5 or 6 up to 60 or 70. As with any large group of people they need to be managed. On a scuba diving boat the boat manager is called a Tour Leader. Day trips run to sites such as Racha Yai, Racha Noi, Phi Phi, Shark Point, Koh Doc Mai and many more.
Technically a Tour Leader does not have to be a professional dive instructor or divemaster however in almost all cases the [...]
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Why scuba diving is the best holiday activity?
Here is a list of reasons why scuba diving is the best holiday activity to do in the world
Here we will explain why scuba diving is the best holiday activity.
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Learning to scuba dive is much easier than trying to hit a little ball 200 metres into a hole that you can’t see.
Scuba diving does not have negative terms like slice, shank, duffed, worm burner, hit it fat, hit it thin or chilli dip. It has positive terms like awesome, unbelievable, unreal and incredible.
You don’t lose your scuba equipment in the rough.
You scuba diving club will let you scuba dive every day of the week, inclu [...]
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Scuba Diving – Fun for the Whole Family
Scuba diving is a fun that the whole family can enjoy together.
There is a stereotype that scuba diving is only for young and adventurous men. This myth couldn’t be further from the truth.
In 2010 34% of all PADI certifications worldwide were female. This is a sharp increase in the initial early days of scuba diving and it is slowly on the increase. The figures for scuba diving in Phuket and Thailand are very similar.
PADI do have some age restrictions on ages for some of the more difficult scuba diving courses. However the entry-level courses such as the PADI Discover Scuba Diving, PADI open Water Course and PADI Advance O [...]
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PADI courses that could save you a lot of money
Here is a blog that will explain to you there are PADI courses that can save you a lot of money.
Customer: How deep do we go today?
Instructor: What certification do you hold?
Customer: “ PADI Open Water”.
Instructor: “18 metres”
Customer: “But I have been to 30 metres before” “I will be OK”.
This is a very common conversation I have heard many times before and in most cases the customer’s thoughts are true. Most divers could go to 30 metres without a problem.
I have never been involved in or known anyone that has been involved in a scuba diving accident that required Hyperbaric (Recompressi [...]
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Why I love to Teach Scuba Diving
In 2008 I quit a perfectly good and well paying job to become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor here in Phuket. It was a decision that was made with some apprehension however it is a choice that I have never regretted.
Having been fortunate enough to progress through the PADI ranks and now made it to the highest rating of PADI Course Director.
Being a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor or PADI Master Instructor opens up a world of different job opportunities in a vast range of countries and environments. This gives you the opportunity to meet people from a vast range of nationalities.
I can teach a wide number of scuba di [...]
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