Diving Sabah? Dive Downbelow!

Continuing your education beyond PADI Instructor level is not only great for your career but also the experience gained is awesome fun.

Pablo and Big Vic are both full time Scuba Instructors at the Downbelow 5 Star IDC Dive Centre & they took advantage of having resident Platinum PADI Course Director Richard Swann around by enrolling in the PADI Digital Underwater Photography Specialty Instructor Course during their day off.

Richard is a professional Underwater Photographer who enjoys photography and has captured marine images for many years so he was happy to have some fun & at the same time share his knowledge with his previous IDC students.

Both Pablo & Vic displayed artistic flair & professional dive skills during the program so do check them out with confidence for your Digital Underwater Photography course!

Apart from the photography specialty course, we also have many other specialty courses on offer. Contact us if you need more details on any of our dive courses.

There you have it! 3 more AWARE Shark Conservation Speciality Course Instructors to spread the shark love to divers everywhere!

Our recently qualified PADI Open Water Scuba Instructors attended this course with Downbelow at our PADI 5 Star IDC Dive Centre on Gaya island and joined the fight for saving our sharks.

Downbelow’s resident PADI Course Director, Richard Swann, donated his time to teach this speciality for free.

PADI also assisted by donating the application fees to the AWARE Foundation and Project AWARE donated all the learning materials used by both the Instructors and the students.

Essentially, all our candidates had to do was attend and pass the course, and commit to spreading the word on the plight of sharks.

Together we make a great team and set an outstanding example of how, as a collective, we can be more effective in the ongoing battle for the protection of sharks worldwide.

We wish our new AWARE Shark Conservation Instructors the best of luck in teaching as many students as possible about this important issue.

The May Instructor Development Course is well and over, but our new Instructors are not done soaking up as much of resident PADI Course Director Richard’s knowledge as they can.

Over the weekend the OWSI started a few additional speciality instructor courses, with PADI Course Director Richard leading the pack.

Most visually impressive of the courses is the PADI Digital Underwater Photography course.

Richard has a wealth of knowledge thanks to years of experience on this subject, as you can see from our photography collection as well as the images that decorate the product pages of our website.

Our Open Water Scuba Instructors, presently Photography Speciality Instructor students, thus has the opportunity to truly master the camera before becoming UW Photography instructors themselves.

Have a peek at the Facebook album from the course and you’ll see that the students produced some stunning shots, all by using Downbelow’s rental Canon G12′s with Underwater Housing.

After the fun they had with the photography course, the students will also tackle the Nitox, Wreck, Deep & Fish ID Instructor courses, to help them reach the PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer level and position them perfectly for employment in the industry.

The new AWARE Shark Conservation Speciality course is easy to add on to one of our normal diving days and gives an interesting dimension to other, complementary courses.

That’s how experienced Divemaster Tim enhanced his Nitrox speciality course that he did with Downbelow recently.

Seeing as how it’s Big Shark Shout Out Week, we introduced the course to him and wanting to make a stand for the right of sharks, he added the AWARE Shark Conservation Speciality to his diving day.

James, one of Downbelow’s newest AWARE Shark Conservation Speciality Instructors, took Tim under his wing to impart his wealth shark knowledge.

With the Shark Conservation Speciality under his belt, Divemaster Tim will be equipped with the knowledge of how to make a difference in the fight for shark rights.

Big Shark Shout Out Week is on until 23 October, so there is still time left for your to stand up and make yourself heard for this important cause.

Check out Tuesday’s post if you’re stuck for ideas on how to make an impact.

Our international staff provide personal, premier service at our PADI 5 Star Instructor Development (IDC) Dive Centre, where we pride ourselves on small group tuition with extremely high safety standards & procedures.

Do visit us at our Dive Shop & Travel Centre where we offer free wireless Internet and refreshments.

Tel: +6 012 866 1935
Email: dive@divedownbelow.com

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