PADI today launched the last of its core recreational courses online, adding Rescue Diver to its menu of eLearning courses nearly three years after the Internet-training program began. Now you can complete all the theory, Knowledge Reviews and exams online, at home, at your own pace. Then, when you come to Thailand, you'll get right in the water!
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Showing again why Aquanauts Dive Career Development offers the most well-rounded dive education avaialble, groups of interns have been embarking on training outside the mainstream divemaster and instructor training to learn to dive caverns … and eventually caves. In February, four interns and Aquanauts Course Director / ANDI Instructor Roger M. Smith explored the caverns of Thailand’s...
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If you’re serious about becoming the best instructor or divemaster you can, then Aquanauts’ new Enhanced Learning Packs are for you. All-new for 2008, the bundles of courses, materials and equipment below will not only add more depth and enjoyment to your internship, but also will bolster your dive skills and give you an edge in the marketplace once you’re out looking for your...
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Taking a short break from their Pattaya-based PADI instructor training internships, a group of Aquanauts interns and Course Director Roger Smith jetted off for a special Aquanauts “field trip” for a week of wreck diving in Coron Bay, Philippines. Already seasoned wreck divers, thanks to lots of experience on Pattaya’s three area shipwrecks, instructors Meg Smith, Matt Bradbury...
read morePADI’s Specialty of the Month for September truly is a special one this time. Unlike previous months, when courses such as Deep Diver or Wreck Diver were available at any PADI center, this month’s spotlight course is the PADI National Geographic Diver specialty course, which his only available at select PADI National Geographic Dive Centers. In Thailand, there are only seven of these National...
read moreWhile there are many advantages to learning to dive in Pattaya – the warm water, the low prices, the ease of having everything arranged for you from hotel pickup to lunch and your return – there’s one downside for many holiday makers: Time, or rather the lack of it. Many people come to Pattaya for a week or less and therefore don’t want to spend all of their time doing something...
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Divers Alert Network (DAN) is a non-profit medical and research organization dedicated to the safety and health of recreational scuba divers and associated with Duke University Medical Center in the U.S. Founded in 1980, DAN is supported by the largest association of recreational divers in the world. It operates diving’s only 24-hour emergency hotline, a diving medical hotline, as well as...
read moreIf you yearn to extend your bottom time but don't have the time or money to take PADI's full Enriched Air Nitrox speciality course, Aquanauts now has two new shorter, cheaper options. We're now offering PADI's "Discover Enriched Air Nitrox" specialty and the Nitrox Adventure Dive.
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Aquanauts is Pattaya's only British-owned PADI 5-Star Career Development Center. We offer all PADI courses from novice to instructor and run daily diving and snorkeling trips to Pattaya's Near and Far Islands and three shipwrecks.
One only three PADI National Geographic CDCs in all of Thailand, Aquanauts maintains the highest standards, including training all of our instructors ourselves through our renowned Diving Instructor Training internship program. Train to Divemaster or Instructor with all your courses, accommodations and equipment included.