Thursday, October 1, 2009

Sunday, September 27, 2009

MV Scuba Adventure October Madness

MV Scuba Adventure October Madness

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Couples special - One pays full ticket price, your partner receives a 30% discount.


Note: Our special promotion will be valid for all scheduled MV Scuba Adventure Liveaboard Trips 14th November 2009 - 15th May 2010

Conditions:

  • Bookings must be confirmed before the 1st November 2009.
  • A 25% deposit upon booking and final payment latest 15 November 2009

Friday, September 18, 2009

Racha Yai, Phuket, Thailand

Environment

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Scuba Cat Diving and Mike Stark (the original owner) created the first Artifical Reef at Racha Yai, 11th November 2000. The hull of a confiscated smuggling boat had been lying abandoned in a Phuket shipyard for years. This was a big boat, 34 meters long, and everything removable was long gone leaving behind a sterile and environmentally friendly potential artificial reef. A fair bit of work was involved patching the vessel for her final voyage, 15 years of shipyard fees paid and we were finally ready.

The Wreck, since named Marlas Mystery sits on the East Side of Racha Yai.

Plans are afoot to expand an artificial reef off the coast of Koh Racha Yai Island, south of Phuket.

Paitoon Panchaiyaphum, director of the Phuket based southern regional office of the Marine and Coastal Resources Conservation Department (MCRCD), said the artificial reef had been a great success since its construction three years ago.

The artificial reef currently comprises 300 concrete modules.

The office is planning to ask the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment for a budget of 22 million baht to sink 3,000 more modules, expanding the reef structure tenfold.

The MCRCD also hopes to sink two boats donated by the The Racha resort on Koh Racha Yai.

We have since heard they plan to sink four boats, the first early next month, and to follow later some decommissioned army tanks.

Tec Diving

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Ready to take on deep diving, trimix and rebreathers, but can't get all the details sorted? Let Scuba Cat Diving do it for you! We now offer three, all-inclusive internships that will have you diving deeper and longer -- and less expensively -- than you ever imagined.

PADI Scuba Diving Internships

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Scuba diving internships - At Scuba Cat Diving we offer a range of diving internship programs. Dive training internships - we have plenty that can be tailored to your dive training needs. We realize that everyone has different schedules due to career breaks, work commitments, work schedules or different goals in diving that they have set. This is why Scuba Cat Diving CDC offer a vast array of diver internships

PADI IDC, Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket

Congratulations

PADI IDC Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand

Congratulations to the most recent IDC candidates from Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand who were successful in becoming PADI OWSI's.



Book one month in advance with us and get your PADI Emergency Oxygen Provider Instructor course FREE with all our IDC Packages! (PADI Fees and Materials not included)

And dont forget the free diving day trips and liveaboard experience for all our candidates!

  • October PADI IDC- 4th - 15th IE-16th - 18th
  • November PADI IDC- 1st - 12th IE- 13th - 15th
  • December PADI IDC- 29th Nov - 10th Dec IE- 11th - 13th
2010 have recently been announced.

Dive 2009, Birmingham, Uk 24th and 25th October 2009

Dive 2009

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Come to meet Scuba Cat Diving team at stand 1265 and participate at the lucky draw (liveaboard trips, daytrips)
You will have the opportunity to discuss with our team about:

  • • Liveaboard trips to the Similans, Richelieu Rock, Koh Bon and Koh Tachai
  • • Daytrips to the best dive sites around Phuket and Koh Phi Phi
  • PADI Courses
  • PADI IDC (Instructor course)
  • • Career Packages
  • Internship programs
  • • Rebreather
  • • Tec Diving: DSAT Tec Rec, Trimix courses
  • IAHD courses
  • Reef check courses

Friday, August 7, 2009

PADI IDC


PADI IDC (Instructor Development Course)

Scuba Cat Diving have teamed up with Big Blue, Shanghai to launch a PADI IDC in Shanghai, China with PADI Platinum Course Director Christophe Pace.

Are you looking for something extraordinary? To do something others can only dream of? To help people transform their lives? To open doors you didn't even know existed? All of this, and more, awaits you as a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.

The Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program is one of two distinct components of PADI's Instructor Development Course (IDC) - the core of PADI Instructor training. The first portion is the Assistant Instructor course followed by the Open Water Scuba Instructor program.

The OWSI program introduces you to the entire PADI System of diver education and concentrates on further developing your abilities as a professional dive educator.

The fun part of instructor training is interacting with course participants while creating friendships that continue long after the course concludes.

You'll begin networking with other professionals and begin to explore PADI Pro Diving Jobs worldwide. You'll also have the opportunity to continue your professional education by participating in specialty instructor courses, which train you to teach specialties after instructor certification.


Contact for more information

Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand (Sarah Kench) info@scubacat.com

or

Big Blue, Shanghai, (Leigh Chen) leigh@big-blue.cn