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PADI
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Who can dive?
There was a time when divers were supposed to have crew cuts
and the fitness of an American marine soldier! Thanks to education,
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this attitude is now a thing of the past. These days nearly
everybody can dive, women, men and children, the only
remaining age limit is that you must be 10 yrs of age. (For further
information read the page “Junior Open Water diver”) Our students have
been between the age of 10 and 70 and there is absolutely nothing to
suggest that anybody of any certain age or category find it more or less
easy. If we thought so from the beginning our students have proved us
hopelessly wrong!
Health and Diving
Only medical conditions can provide an obstacle. If you are
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or if you are over 50 yrs of age we recommend a
visit to a diving physician before embarking on a course. In Sweden such
an examination is compulsory for all divers but in most places of the
world a completed health declaration is sufficient. If you have not had
an examination at home and feel a bit unsure of your physical status we
now have at Lanta Diver season 2002- a physician affiliated with our
dive centre. What we must say is that we are very restrictive indeed
when it comes to persons with asthma, heart problems or persons on
medication for blood pressure. If you have any of these problems we
strongly recommend you to get in touch with a doctor at home who knows
you and your medical condition. Diving is
fantastic and great fun but not important enough for anybody to
jeopardize their health.
PADI
When we years ago drew our first trembling breaths under
water we had no idea where this would lead us. Had somebody
suggested we were going to give up our ordinary life, leave the
country and start a dive centre in Thailand we would have
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laughed. Choosing PADI was just a
coincidence (well, maybe not as PADI is the is by far the largest
dive organization in the world) still; we have never been given the
opportunity to regret this decision. Sure, there are other
organizations the largest of these being NAUI and CMAS. We do not
suggest that an education with one of these organizations should be
inferior of less safe but we do suggest that the sheer size of PADI
is reason enough to choose PADI when starting to dive. If you decide
to carry on diving and to enter the professional side of diving you
will at one stage or another be given the opportunity to “convert”
to PADI in order to have more options and possibilities than within
a smaller organization. Read more about PADI on their website
www.padi.com
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The Education at Lanta Diver
Since we started our dive centre on Koh Lanta the education
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increased considerably. In 2002 we received PADI’s “Educational recognition” as a confirmation of the high quality
and educational standard of our courses. Already two years after our
start on Koh Lanta our premises were too small and we moved to new
larger premises where now have two large, full equipped and
air-conditioned classrooms, a prerequisite for complete and rewarding
courses. Last season we also added a new building with several
classrooms, workshop and equipment room to our dive center. |
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Needless to say we also spend a lot of time and energy on finding
what we think will be the best instructors. Our
instructors come from Sweden, England, Germany,
Holland, France, Italy and Thailand. You choose in which language you would prefer
to do the course. Pool training is done at Noble House where we have
the only pool an the island deep enough for confined water training. |
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