Category: Intern Profiles
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.
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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.
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How Old Is Too Old?
As we’ve noted many places on the website, internships are not just for young people. Over the years, we’ve a good number of people in their 40s, 50s and even 60s become dive instructors and divemasters. One such intern is Greg King, who qualified as an Open Water Scuba Instructor in February 2010. At age 62, Greg saw the training a bit differently than some and, below, he shares his thoughts on the program ad experiences at Aquanauts.
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From Novice to Instructor: An Aquanauts Intern Looks Back on 7 Months in Thailand
American Grant Cauley spent seven months with Aquanauts both training and truly taking advantage of his time here to travel around and tell all his friends (and the rest of the world) about his time in Thailand. Grant’s now an instructor and has left for home. But before he did he wrote one final dispatch for this website.
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Small in Size, but Not Heart: Laura’s Story
PADI Course Director Laura Lee Merkle Ware tells her story of the challenges she faced in her pursuit the climb to the top of the PADI ladder in this 2007 blog entry.
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A Married Couple’s Journey to Become Dive Instructors
Over the years, Aquanauts has had a number of married or engaged couples come to both train as PADI professionals. It’s a unique circumstance and, rather than us tell you about it, we had a couple of great instructors tell you their story first-hand.
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3 Years, 3 Continents & a Whole New Life
The first-person story of a young London couple who jumped off the high-stress, high-paying career ladder to take hold of their lives and put the quality of life first. Joining Aquanauts, Alex and Tony Leeming became PADI instructors and changed their lives.
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The Amazing Things Interns Say….
Dive training is not all serious work. There’s always a great deal of levity thrown in. And as the pressure ramps up near the end of an internship, it’s amazing the things interns can end up saying and doing:
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Internships: The Long & the Short of It
There are a lot of roads to the PADI Instructor Exam and not all of them are smooth. Mo Morrison and Jonathan Rhind know that only too well. If they were like most Aquanauts Diving Instructor Training interns, they would have spent four continuous months diving, studying, training and enjoying a relaxed holiday lifestyle. But due to their work schedules, that just wasn’t possible. For them, Aquanauts created custom programs.
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