Scuba Diving - Thailand Scuba Diving, Liveaboards and PADI IDC in Phuket Thailand

Choosing the right Course Director and IDC Center for your instructor training is the most important decision you will make prior to entering the dive industry as a professional educator.

Course Director Chris Owen provides the quality and expertise you should expect and demand during your future career training. Look at what will make you successful in the real world - you deserve the best training & education available.

Our Instructor Training program is fun, intense, demanding, and exciting all at the same time. Candidates have fun; they make new friends and share rewarding life experiences while earning some of the most coveted credentials in the dive industry.

Why Chris' PADI IDC in Phuket?

We run the most dynamic, updated to the minute PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) in Phuket, Thailand, keeping you on the cutting edge.

With full multimedia computerized classrooms: laptops, LCD projectors, video etc. and by using all the very latest PADI materials and courses as soon as they become available, we ensure that your PADI IDC experience is the most updated, comprehensive and professional available.

9½ Day expanded PADI IDC

Although PADI requires an IDC to have a minimum duration of 7 days we have found some extra presentations and workshops highly beneficial to our candidates' success. To accommodate these extra presentations, workshops and the DAN Oxygen Provider Course that we have integrated into our program, we have found a 9 ½ day program more suitable.

Extra workshops include: Ascents & Descents, Buoyancy control, Buddy Breathing both swimming and stationary, Controlled Emergency Swimming Ascent (CESA), Rescue and Student Control, both under water and at the surface.

Our program is intense and demanding whilst being both fun and enjoyable. The IDC staff work hard to keep this an efficient and relaxed program. This is important because people are most receptive to learning and perform their best in a low stress environment.

Small Classes = Personal Attention !!!

Chris is proud of his 100% First IE Pass Rate: one of the ways this 100% Pass rate has been maintained has been by limiting class sizes to no more than 10 IDC Candidates. It is only by limiting Candidate numbers that a Course Director can spend the necessary time and personal attention that you need and deserve to fully develop your abilities.

Our staff are dedicated to YOUR IDC program and are available 24 hrs a day to answer any queries or questions you might have. Extra remedial lectures and workshops are ALWAYS available and are scheduled during the evenings as required. Although PADI allows a maximum ratio of 8 candidates to one Course Director / IDC Staff Instructor - we limit our candidate to staff ratio to 5:1 . with no more than 10 total Candidates per IDC !!!

We have found that this 5:1 ratio allows for the greatest instructional service and individual attention.

Working in groups of 5 gives everyone enough time for discussion and individual feedback and is ideal for the Confined and Open Water Presentations you will be giving during the IDC. You will also profit enormously from the contributions and ideas of your fellow candidates.

Free Accommodation ?!?!?!

Team spirit and the ability to work with people are crucial to your success as an instructor. We try to help to get you "in the mood" by offering FREE twin share accommodation to ALL our candidates.

You are very much encouraged to work together on your "home work assignments" and we have found that staying at the same location helps this enormously.

DAN Oxygen Provider Course included !!!

Unfortunately it is a sad fact that people do suffer accidents and as we are all aware the only first aid procedure for diving related accidents is oxygen provision. What is even sadder is that a large percentage of dive professionals, both divemasters and Instructors have NEVER received training in this field and are untrained in oxygen administration.
We have integrated the DAN Oxygen Provider Course into our Indepth IDC program.

Mandatory for Instructors and Divemasters in most countries throughout the World - this course gives candidates a basic knowledge for the practical administration of oxygen using various delivery systems, including demand, oronasal mask, constant flow and pocket mask.

Schedule 2005 - 2006

Trip Code

Departs

Returns

JANUARY 2006

S/AD 16

03/01/2006

07/01/2006

S/AD 17

08/01/2006

12/01/2006

S/AD18

14/01/2006

18/01/2006

S/AD 19

19/01/2006

23/01/2006

S/AD 20

24/01/2006

28/01/2006

FEBRUARY 2006

S/AD 22

03/02/2006

07/02/2006

S/AD 23

08/02/2006

12/02/2006

S/AD 24

14/02/2006

18/02/2006

S/AD 25

19/02/2006

23/02/2006

S/A 26

24/02/2006

28/02/2006

MARCH 2006

S/AD 27

01/03/2006

05/03/2006

S/AD 28

06/03/2006

10/03/2006

S/AD 29

11/03/2006

15/03/2006

S/AD 30

16/03/2006

20/03/2006

S/AD 31

22/03/2006

26/03/2006

S/AD 32

27/03/2006

31/03/2006

APRIL 2006

S/AD 33

01/04/2006

05/04/2006

S/AD 34

06/04/2006

10/04/2006

S/AD 35

11/04/2006

15/04/2006

S/AD 36

16/04/2006

20/04/2006

S/AD 37

22/04/2006

26/04/2006

S/AD 38

27/04/2006

01/04/2006

MAY 2006

S/AD 39

02/05/2006

06/05/2006

S/AD 40

07/05/2006

11/05/2006

S/AD 41

12/05/2006

16/05/2006

REMEMBER: AI courses run in conjunction with an IDC comprise the first 5 days - OWSI courses run in conjunction with an IDC the last 6 days !!!

Course prices and SPECIAL IDC Packages

Scuba Cat Diving 2005/2006
Pool Rewiew	Pool - 1 hours	1,000 Baht
PADI Courses
All PADI courses include certiffication and manuals ( where indicated )
Private instruction	Per day plus course price	3,000 Baht
Scuba Review	Classroom and Pool	3,800 Baht
Bubblemaker	Pool only	2,300 Baht
Discover the Reef	1 dive - Patong Beach	2,300 Baht
Discover Scuba Diving	1 day / 2 dives	3,900 Baht
Scuba Diver Course 1	2 days / 2 dives	8,500 Baht
Open Water Course 1	4 days / 4 dives	11,500 Baht
National Geographic Diver 2	5 days / 6 dives	18,500 Baht
National Geographic Diver Portal 2	For certified divers 1 day / 2	7,500 Baht
Adventure Diver 4	1 days / 3 divers	7,500 Baht
Adventure Diver & National Geographic 3 4	1 days / 3 divers	12,500 Baht
Adventure Open Water Divers 4	2 days / 5 dives	10,500 Baht
Adventure Open Water Divers & National Geographic Diver Portal	2 days / 5 dives	15,000 Baht
Adventure Diver	per dive - certification &	2,100 Baht
Adventure Open Water Diver & Enriched Air Nitrox Course 4 5	3 days / 5 dives	15,000 Baht
Emergency Fist Response 6	1 day	4,500 Baht
EFR Care For Children 7	1/2 day classroom	4,500 Baht
Rescue Diver Course 8	3 day	11,500 Baht
Master Scuba Diver 9	5 Specialties	30,000 Baht
Divemaster 10	Includes up to 60 dives	37,000 Baht
Referrals
Scuba Diver to Open Water		6,900 Baht
Pool & 4 Open Water Dives		9,900 Baht
2 Open Water Training Divers		4,900 Baht
4 Open Water Training Divers		7,900 Baht