PADI IDC Thailand Diving Instructor Development Courses in Phuket and Phi Phi

PADI IDC Thailand Diving Instructor Development Courses (IDCs) and Diving Internships on Phuket & Phi Phi: PADI Recreational Diving Courses

Phuket's leading force in dive trips, PADI instruction, diving equipment and live-aboard diving in Thailand.

Use the flow chart below to chart your progress and see what your next step is going to be !!!

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The PADI Adventure Diver:                                
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Now you're a diver … what's your favourite activity underwater ????

Have one day free ???

Want to do something different ???

This is the perfect opportunity to gain additional experience and skills under the guidance of a PADI professional in specialty areas that interests you: such as underwater photography, wreck diving, fish identification, deep diving, night diving etc - - where you learn to dive by diving !!!

You will do 3 Adventure Dives - in a one or day or over more if you wish.

Options available here in Thailand include:

• Underwater Naturalist
• Night Diver
• Drift Diver
• Deep Diver
• Search & Recovery Diver
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Wreck Diver
• Underwater Navigator
• Multilevel Diver
• Diver Propelled Vehicle (DPV)
• Drift Diver
• Deep Diver
• Aware fish identification
• Boat Diver
• Equipment Specialist
• Underwater Videographer
• Under Water Photography

Once you're an Adventure Diver you are ready for a large number of PADI Specialties
and you're only TWO dives away from the PADI Advanced Open Water Course !!!!

The PADI Advanced Open Water course:                 
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Now where haven't you been ???

Deep ? On a Wreck ?? Learnt how to take photos underwater yet ???

The Advanced Open Water Diver is awarded to Adventure Divers or Open Water divers who have completed a total of 5 Adventure dives in 5 different speciality areas.

It runs over two days or can be used as a one day program to "upgrade" Adventure Divers.

Of the 5 Adventure Dives one must be the Deep dive and another the Underwater Navigation dive.

Let's Go Diving !!!

PADI Speciality Training:                                     
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Found a specialty area you REALLY want to explore ????

With PADI Specialty Training PADI offers divers the chance to broaden their diving knowledge and skills in areas which interest them the most.

There are 27 Standard PADI speciality outlines - including dives such as nitrox, wreck, night, rebreathers, fish identification, drift etc ….

The purpose of these programs is to familiarise divers with the skills, knowledge, planning, organisation, procedures, techniques, problems, hazards and enjoyment of these speciality diving areas.

Chris and Warm Water Divers currently offer training in the following speciality areas:

• Aware fish identification
• Under Water Photography
• Multilevel Diver
• Sea Kayak Diver Distinctive Specialty
• Equipment Specialist
• Search & Recovery Diver
• Boat Diver
• Enriched Air Diver
• Oxygen First Aid
• Peak Performance Buoyancy
• Wreck Diver
• Underwater Navigator
• Night Diver
• Underwater Naturalist
• Drift Diver
• Deep Diver
• Draeger Dolphin Semi Closed Rebreather
• Project Aware
• Marine Resource Management

PADI Specialty Training is the chance you've been waiting for to explore the specialty areas which you have always wanted to dive…. !!!!!

Chris says: "If you haven't yet - Get Wrecked !!"

The PADI Rescue Diver Course:                             
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So now you want to be able to help people ????

Often descried as the "most fun I've had being serious" this PADI program develops your knowledge and skills so you can effectively perform diver assists and rescues, manage diving accident situations and render First Aid.

The program is an important step in expanding your knowledge and experience as a diver.

The course consists of 10 exercises in Open Water that culminate in 2 Rescue Scenarios combining the various exercises into realistic rescue scenarios.

These are usually run over two days following a day of Knowledge Development and Pool work.

Exercises include: panicked diver on the surface, tired diver on the surface, distressed diver underwater, missing diver, surfacing the unconscious diver, egress with the unconscious diver etc

Prior to certification you will also need to have successfully completed the MEDIC FIRST AID program or a sanctioned program in CPR within the past two years.

PADI Rescue Diver certification is also a prerequisite for all PADI leadership programs.

The Medic First Aid course:                                
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Want to learn CPR and First Aid ????

This is a fully comprehensive First Aid course - recognised world-wide - for divers and non-divers alike.

This eight hour course, consists of video, lecture, and actual hands on practical work, showing you how to respond if someone needs help.

You'll learn about CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), basic first aid and other emergency response procedures - many used by emergency care professionals - but at a layman's level.

The chances are, you won't ever need to use the range of skills presented in this Medic First Aid course, however should the need arise to provide emergency medical attention, you'll have the knowledge to respond quickly - and with confidence !!!

BE Safe - Get Trained !!!

Master Scuba Diver: