November 5th 2008
Certification #150 has been issued.

Posted under Courses & Teaching

On the 20th of October 2008, I had the pleasure of certifying Lise Thomsen as Padi Advanced Open Water Diver.

Therefore she now has the 150th dive certificate I have issued in my Diving Career :-)

Until now (5th of November) I have issued the following diving certificates:

Diving Certificate: Numbers issued:
Scuba Diver 1
Junior Openwater 5
Openwater 72
Advanced Openwater 26
Rescue Diver 12
Divemaster 1
Total: 117
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Specialities:
Deep 8
Digital Underwater Photography 1
Enriched Air Diver (Nitrox) 19
Night 1
Wreck 3
Underwater Navigator 1
Total: 33
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Total dive certificates: 150
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I have also issued 9 Emergency First Response certificates.

My plan is to become a Padi Master Instructor, I have issued enough certifications, but not of the correct type. At the moment, I need to certify 1 EFR, 4 Divemasters, and 5 Assistant Instructors to be able to apply.

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November 3rd 2008
I am now certified as Padi IDC Staff Instructor

Posted under Courses & Malta

From the 22th of October until the 29th of October I had the pleasure of being on Malta diving with Divewise.

During this period I did do the Padi IDC Staff instructor course. On the 27th of October I pass the course :-)

This was quite an interesting course, during which I followed an Assistant Instructor course, evaluating the students together with the Staff Instructor and Course Director doing the course.

Of course us IDC Staff Instructor students where being evaluated as well, we had to do the 20 skill circuit, with a score of minimum 4 for each skill. We had to do teaching presentation, and confined water presentations as well.

In the standards written exam there was 40 questions, and we had to have at least 80% correct, I had a single error which mean I had 97.5% correct :-)
In the theory exam there was 5 sections of each 20 questions, again we must have at least 80% correct. I had 100% correct in 4 of them, and a single error in the RDP/Wheel exam. I am VERY pleased with my result :-)

I am really looking forward to do my first Assistant instructor course.

Here you can see some pictures of the Staff Instructors candidates and the Assistant Instructors candidates.

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