Why Scuba Cat Diving?

At home in the UK:  SEPT 2011,

Ivan

I had decided that I wanted to take my Scuba Diving to the next level but really had no idea of what that meant, so I hit the internet I found myself on the website looking at a flow chart.  I had Advanced Open Water and wanted to go further, I chose my target level which was Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) or Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) depending on time and costs involved, first I contacted my local Dive Centre and did my Rescue Diver.

The real problem came with finding the dive centre to do my Internship :

• What was it going too cost?
• Where would I do it?
• What level of training would I get?

So I started contacting Dive centres across the globe, trying to get the information I needed, I visited the Dive Show in Birmingham hit all the stalls met some interesting people got contacts and sent more E-mails, did more research, checked out one dive centre called Scuba Cat Diving,

I hit trip advisor and it came up with a 5.

By now replies were coming back yes, yes we can do your IDC;

the ones that said come have fun and become an instructor got binned, yes I wanted to enjoy the course but “Fun” was not my main priority, I wanted professionalism and high level of training.

Finally I narrowed my search to about 10 centres across the world, weighed the pros ‘n’ cons and reduced it to 5.

Now anybody that has looked in to this will tell you that cost is a big part of making a choice, Value for money by the time I got to 5 places to choose from I had numbers swimming round my head, my poor dive buddy and my partner had both helped crunch numbers trying to make sense of it all.

• fees xxxx AUS$
• Accommodation xxx THB
• Course fees xxx THB
• Materials xxx THB
• ETC ETC ETC

Heads hurt, numbers became meaningless and just a bunch of zeros with strange letters after them….. I had as they say had enough, I sent out 1 email to the 5 places on my short list….. My head hurts how much is it going to cost me for everything excluding flights and living expenses??? 4 came back pretty much restating what had been sent out originally blah blah + blah blah but 1  came back with a simple answer,

It will cost you X amount in THB that’s approximately £xxxx gbp .

I was trying to find somewhere to learn, I sent 5 e-mails asking one question, I got 1 back that actually gave me the answer I needed, If I am going to learn then I need to have information presented to me in the simplest form in a manner that I can understand only 1 Dive Centre actually answered the question I asked in the manner that I asked for and that was Scuba Cat Diving.

The Decision was made………

Scuba Cat Diving is known for many reasons with regard to scuba diving. We offer scuba diving for everybody!

Scuba Cat Diving, Phuket, Thailand is the only  scuba diving school the Asia that can train new DDI INstructors. We havespecialised instructors offering scuba diving and training for people with a physical or mental challenge. Both the instructors and school have been certified by Disabled Divers International, the global scuba dive training specialised in scuba instruction for people with a disability.

Our objective is to integrate the ‘regular’ divers with divers that need special attention and instruction and we succeed well. Both mixed groups friends and families with and without disability come for scuba diving with us, where we will give them all the (extra) help they need to have a wonderful time.

Disabled Divers International is a foundation with a vast global network and presence, teaching scuba professionals how to instruct people with special needs. Due to the natural buoyancy scuba diving is considered to be the most accessible active sport there is. DDI instructors worldwide have been certifying people with paraplegic, tetraplegic, muscular dystrophy, visual and hearing impairment, mental challenge, an amputee, to mention a few.

Scuba Cat Diving is helping DDI Foundation to spread the word…scuba diving for all! Please contact us with any question or doubt you may have. Our instructors have years of experience. Try it and discover there are no barriers!