The PADI Open Water Diver Course

The PADI Open Water Diver course is the world’s most popular scuba course, and has introduced millions of people to the adventurous diving lifestyle. If you’ve always wanted to learn how to scuba dive, discover new adventures or simply see the wondrous world beneath the waves, this is where it starts.

The fun part about this course is . . . well, just about all of it because learning to dive is incredible. You breath underwater for the first time (something you’ll never forget, like me despite me diving actively for nearly ten years now) and learn what you need to know to become a certified diver. During the course, you’ll complete some shallow dives in a pool or a confined area and then a minimum of four dives at local dive sites under the supervision of your PADI Instructor (THAT'S ME!).

You get to learn how to use basic scuba gears, including dive computers and some standard accessories. You can check with us (your instructor) about the gears you will use during the course and we will get a suitable one for you to use during the course.

The PADI Open Water Diver course offers you a variety of home-study materials like the convenient e-learning or the manual and DVD package. The materials cover what you need to know about basic scuba diving skills, terminology and safety procedures. For each concept you’ll read a description and watch a video demonstration. Then you’ll jump in the pool (or pool-like confined environment) to practice these skills with your instructor. Later, as a certified diver, you can use the course materials as a reference guide for future diving adventures and to review what you learned. You might have not been diving for a while after your course, so having the materials will certainly help you a lot in remembering things like the diver's hand signals, flying after dive rules and safety procedures.

The bonus: You may be able to earn college credits for the course! For more details, check here.

For more info on the PADI Open Water Diver course, check here.

If you happen to be in Malaysia, Borneo, Sabah, Tawau, Semporna or planning to come here to visit exotic and famous islands like Sipadan, Mabul, Kapalai, Mataking and Pompong to do some dives, let me know. Send me an email and I can definitely help you get wet, fast... Wait, that doesn't sound so right but anyways...


Ciao!


Big Congrats to Steven and Shudee for completing their PADI Open Water Diver Course at Mabul Island last week!

Earth Hour!

Feeling that I should start to make a change in the world, I decided to lead my students for diving on this Earth Hour day at Mabul Island where we participated in the Earth Hour program organized by Sipadan Water Village Resort. (www.swvresort.com)

While I was drinking at the bar, I was asked by this stranger beside me who wasn't so keen on this Earth Hour thing.

"Is Earth Hour really beneficial? It seems to benefit the government and related industries around the globe (since they can save money for power even if it's just an hour) more than us civilians." Among other criticisms on this program which I didn't really paid attention, I told him that I'm no pro on this matter so I told him to check on it on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Hour as well as the Earth Hour website: http://www.earthhour.org/home/

Perhaps you can read it too. Besides reading it on wiki, we would have read it on news, we watched it on TV and our kids learn this at school. Global Warming is no doubt a global issue and we do really need to take action on Global Warming no matter how small our role is. And you and me can start here. Our words might not change the world, but if we unite, I our actions towards conservation will be more important than ever before. So will shutting our lights off for just one hour...

Besides, Earth Hour is another perfect reason for us to have another crazy drinking party...

And to end this post, I would like to congratulate both Ahmad Ebeta and Yeeven for completing their PADI Open Water Course! Keep diving guys!

Peace out~

From left: Ahmad, Your Hero (lol) and Yeeven

Yeeven and the Giant Frogfish

Ahmad and the Giant Frogfish

The officers on duty during Earth Hour: Mariselle, Gina and Nordin

Dive Center Manager Jimmy and the bar waitress Helen

The peeps at the bar having more fun drinking in the dark. Lovely candles too.

Snacks weren't epic, but there's nothing like drinking dark coffee in the dark...

Our entertainers Peg-Peg and Abigail performing cover songs for us at the bar. Somehow Black Metal music was banned tonight...

The One & Only Pride of Mabul, Abigail~

I wasn't drunk... I swear

P/S: Sorry for the crappy pictures, I used my handphone to snap em shoots.