Scuba Cat Diving Earth Day 2011, Phuket, Thailand

Calling all divers and water enthusiasts.

Take part in an activity that won’t cost the Earth for Project AWARE’s Dive For Earth Day 2011

Human activity is costing the Earth. And despite the oceans' vast expanse it is taking its toll on marine eco systems. But divers and water enthusiasts can choose an activity that won’t cost the earth by joining Scuba Cat Diving, Dive for Earth Day event, underwater clean up at Paradise beach, Patong on the 24^th April 2011

Our underwater environments are under numerous threats including pollution, climate change, overfishing, and coral bleaching. Dive for Earth Day is an extraordinary opportunity to take action and help address the underwater issues that concern you most.

Scuba Cat Diving in partnership with Project AWARE is organizing a:

Beach and Underwater Cleanup

Divers, snorkelers, their families and friends can help make a difference for local dive sites by calling Scuba Cat Diving on 076 293120, or visiting our shop on Patong Beach Road or sending us an email at info@scubacat.com

Launched in the United States on 22 April 1970, Earth Day has raised environmental awareness on a global scale. Since the 30th anniversary of Earth Day in 2000, Project AWARE has helped divers put aquatic issues on the Earth Day map. Thousands of diver volunteers in more than 115 countries have helped protect underwater environments and educate local communities for Project AWARE’s Dive for Earth Day.

Project AWARE Foundation is a nonprofit organisation working with divers to conserve underwater environments through education, advocacy and action. Visit www.projectaware.org to support your local office and participate in environmental activities to make a lasting difference.

Contact: Debbie Woods, Scuba Cat Diving

Phone: 076 293120 Email: info@scubacat.com

PADI Tec Rec Centre

Scuba Cat Diving, PADI 5 * CDC Centre, Phuket, Thailand are proud to announced they have been one of the first Dive Centres in Thailand to earn the TecRec Dive Centre Award.

Vacany for PADI Instructors

Scuba Cat Diving are looking to strengthen our instructor team for high season 2010/2011. If you are interested or know anyone who is please contact me.

Languages are an advantage but all will be considered, a good personality will shine through every time!

First priority will be given to those with a valid work permit for Phuket.

Contact Sarah at info@scubacat.com

Newsletter

In January we launched our new look website, this has recently been updated with all the liveaboard, day trip and Instructor training dates for 2011.
We are about to launch a new look newsletter.
If you would like to subscribe so we can keep in touch, go to www.scubacat.com, at the bottom of our home page enter your email address.

Hope to see you all soon

Scuba Cat

PADI IDC

Sarah Kench PADI Course Director and Owner of Scuba Cat Diving.

Early Bird Booking Discount

Receive 15% discount on trips for 2010/2011 if booked and paid for in full by the end of October 2010

This offer includes all trips on MV Scuba Adventure to the Similans, Koh Bon, Koh Tachai and Richilieu Rock

contact info@scubacat.com for more information

Scuba cat Diving PADI IDC

Congratulations to our new Instructors from the PADI IDC this month, Gerry form Maylasia, Clare from England, Sarla and Maysam from Iran and Andrea from Italy, see you all later this morning for the start of the MSDT Prep with our Resident PADI Platinum Course Director Christophe Pace.

Dive 2010 NEC Birmingham England

Win a liveaboard trip with Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand

30 October 2010 til 31 October 2010

One of the largest dive centres on Phuket, Scuba Cat Diving’s liveaboard MV Scuba Cat sails the waters around the Similans, while Scuba Adventure takes divers on exciting safaris beyond. Also on offer is a full range of PADI courses, from Bubblemaker up to professional Instructor level, along with nitrox, rebreather and trimix courses and career internships. Drop by stand... 1265 to find out more, and enter a competition to win a liveaboard trip or get a 10% discount on all bookings made during the show.

International Cleanup Day 2010

International Clean-up day will soon be here!

Scuba Cat Diving Phuket Thailand will be conducting a Clean-up weekend on the 25th and 26th September 2010 with an overnight stay on our very own Liveaboard MV Scuba Cat at Racha Yai Island. if you would like to join us or want further information please contact Sarah or Kath on info@scubacat.com.

Congratulations

Congratulations to Scuba Cat Diving's resident Platinum Course Director Christophe Pace on being awarded The Instructor Development Award 2010. This award acknowledges outstanding achievement and commitment to PADIs Instructor Development program. We were finalists in two other catagories Outstanding (Dive Centre/Resort) Business Award 2010 and Project Aware Conservation Award 2010.

Photography Programme with Paul Lees

Pocket Guide author and underwater photographer Paul Lees will be hosting his Digital Underwater Photography Programme along with Scuba Cat Diving onboard ourliveaboard, MV Scuba Cat, in Thailand’s Similan Marine National Park between March 12th-14th and April 2nd-4th 2010.

These are free to join and are designed to suit individual needs at all levels, whether just to provide guidance, advice and critique or full hands-on training!

Please contact us for more information quoting Pauls Photo Programme

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

Hope to see you in three weeks at Booth number 1265

MV Scuba Adventure October Madness

MV Scuba Adventure October Madness

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

Racha Yai, Phuket, Thailand

Environment

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

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

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

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

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

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