Okay, Instructor Development Course is finished now, and we have seven brand new Instructors ready to rock and roll! Congratulations, Steven, Adam, Eva, Greg, Raf, Nods and Baby Alex! We wish you a nice career in diving, and lots of grateful students! And as student divers reading this, look at the pictures and remember those faces — they are going to be your teachers!

Three days ago, they started the exams with PADI Instructor Examiner George Wengmann, who came from Philippines to check our Instructor Candidates.

This was the first Instructor Development course on Koh Phangan, so tension and responsibility were really really high. But they managed, everyone’s passed!

The car has arrived packed with new dive teachers.

Every new instructor is happy to get a new profession...

Final briefing at the bar

And now, after all, our heroes get their certification papers!

Eva Oberhauser

Stephen Goodwin

Greg Sheehan

Adam Veitch

Naomi Smith (Nods)

Raphael Wendÿk

And Alex Attewell-Dean — our youngest certified Instructor! Instead of Baby Alex, call him «Instructor Alex» from now!

Guys, we wish all of you an exciting life in the world of professional diving!

Special thanks go to Mark and Darius from Buddha View, Koh Tao, and Neil and Steff from Sail Rock Divers. Many thanks to our staff and all friends, who made this possible. Those are first Instructors bred on Koh Phangan, and we hope to see more!

P.S. And special big respect goes to Alex Arnold from Sail Rock Divers, who organized all that

Yesterday we started our first PADI Instructor Development Course, which is also the first PADI IDC training on Koh Phangan. In the next two weeks our seven Instructor Candidates will be studying theory in the classroom, practicing teaching skills in the pool and open water, and hopefully becoming fully qualified dive Instructors. We wish you all good luck!

Instructor candidate performing confined dive briefing.

Master Instructors Alex and Neil doing lessons in the pool.

Deep water skill training

Classwork...