Discover Aquanauts Internships @ Dive 2011 Oct. 22-23 NEC Birmingham

For the fourth consecutive year, Aquanauts Dive Career Development Centre will be exhibiting at the United Kingdom’s largest dive show, Oct. 22-23 in Birmingham. Aquanauts staff will be at Booth 606 at Dive 2011 at the NEC Birmingham, showing off Aquanauts renowned PADI scuba diving internships, as well as technical and recreational diving opportunities in Pattaya, Thailand. If you’re considering an internship, come visit us to meet intern graduates and get some special discounts on offer only at the show!

DIfferent Backgrounds, Same Result: 4 Aquanauts Students Become New PADI Instructors

A 47-year-old builder, a 26-year-old cook, a German executive and a big, tall Texan seem like unlikely team members, but the four Aquanauts students from around the world became the latest PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors at Pattaya’s May 2011 Instructor Exam.

Returns & Referrals: 4 Aquanauts Interns Become PADI Instructors

He became an instructor with Aquanauts three years ago. She learned to dive with us. And in April 2011, Jason Orage and Amy Walton took further steps in PADI dive careers: He as IDC Staff Instructor, she as an Open Water Scuba Instructor. Walton – along with Philip Kach of Switzerland – became the latest Aquanauts interns to reach the OWSI level. Their success on the PADI Instructor Exam in Pattaya also marked 46 straight months in which Aquanauts has been perfect on the I.E., the best pass rate of any instructor training facility in Thailand.

New Lives as PADI Instructors Begin for 3 Aquanuats Interns

Katie Moore, 25; Gordon Rimmer, 29; and Corey Szy, 34, sailed easily through the three-day test which, they found, was actually easier than the Aquanauts Instructor Development Course that preceded it. It’s that level of effort that has lead to Aquanauts have the only perfect, 100 percent pass rate on the PADI Instructor Exam for the past 45 months.

Grand Birthday Weekend as 2 Aquanauts Interns Become PADI Instructors

Aquanauts took its PADI Instructor Exam 100% pass rate to 42 straight months as 2 more Diving Instructor Training Internships students became PADI instructors. For intern Patrick Martin, it was a great way to celebrate his 28th birthday.

Aquanauts Complete on Sale Up to $700 Off; New Prices on Aquanauts Value

Aquanauts launches a year-end sale on its Complete scuba diving internships, slashes the prices of its Aquanauts Value programs and introduces a new suite of six free diving courses. The sale sees prices of the Aquanauts Complete PADI Instructor internship drop by up to $700.

Aquanauts Sees Unprecedented Turnout at Dive 2010

Jammed Seminars Prmpt U.K. Divers to Change Their Lives, Become PADI Scuba Diving InstructorsDivers from around the United Kingdom looking to change their lives and become PADI scuba diving instructors flocked to Aquanauts Dive Centre’s booth at country’s largest dive show of the year Oct. 30-31. More than a half-dozen attendees of the Dive 2010 Continue Reading…

Scotsman Takes Long, Winding Road to PADI Instructor

It took a few months longer than planned, but Scotsman Ewan Greenwood is now the latest Aquanauts intern to become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.

Greenwood’s internship was originally for three months, but things slid out of April and into June, when he did his Instructor Development Course. But a last-minute change saw him postpone actually taking the Instructor Exam and head back to the U.K. for a few months. He came back in late September, did a bit of a refresher and stormed into the I.E. in Pattaya Oct. 8. Aquanauts now has a perfect, 100 percent pass rate for 40 consecutive months, the longest of any PADI instructor training facility in Thailand.

Ex-Aquanauts Intern Helps Raise $6,000 for PADI’s Proejct AWARE

An Aquanauts intern who trained to become a PADI instructor in 2006-2007 helped raise for than $6,000 for PADI”s Project AWARE conservation program when the Indonesia dive center where he now serves as Course Director joined five other shops in a football tournament and charity auction.

Not Quite Ready, But Happy He Tried

Canadian Kaleb Lewis came to Aquanauts in early 2010 already a PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer. His plan was to do his IDC Staff Instructor course and teach some courses while waiting for his mother and father — both Advanced Open Water divers — to come and work their way up to instructor. It didn’t quite work out that way. As you’ll read below, he has no regrets, saying Aquanauts is “second to none” and that he would recommend us to anyone.