If you’re wondering what IDC, IE or PADI stands for, then you’re obviously not a SCUBA diver about to achieve a professional diving qualification.
The PADI IDC Instructor Development Course is a big deal, because it’s just diving ends and teaching starts. Professional, as in do-it-for-a-living, because you will be transferring knowledge to others, it’s important you are held against stringent standards and achieve important objectives.
Taking part in a PADI IDC Instructor Development Course will teach you those standards and help you achieve those objectives and ultimately help you get certified as a PADI Open Water SCUBA Diving Instructor OWSI.
Asia’s next SCUBA diving PADI IDC Instructor Development Course is being held here in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia and will be conducted by the top PADI 5 Star IDC Dive Centre.
The PADI 5 Star DIVE Centre facilities include classrooms in the city, and a dive station tucked away in a secluded cove on one of the nearby islands, surrounded by pristine rainforest and the ever vibrant coral reefs of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, Sabah.
The PADI IDC Instructor Development Course in Sabah is usually immediately followed by the PADI Instructor Exam IE, a 2-day IDC evaluation conducted by PADI instructor examiners who fly in as needed from Sydney, Australia. Click through to the PADI IDC Instructor Development Course events page to see when the next one is coming up.
You can also choose to do the PADI IDC Instructor Development Course as part of an internship program with the PADI 5 Star IDC Dive Centre.
An internship program allows you to get to know every aspect of the dive industry from dealing with daily divers, through to replenishing the coffee, tea and biscuits. Oh yes, and diving. It also allows you to log the many and different dives that you require to achieve certain certifications.
All said, if going out to a beautiful tropical island every day where you are surrounded by nature above, below and to the sides of you, where you hang out with other people passionate about diving every day and you get to meet and teach diving to people from many different countries and cultures, if that is what you call work – then yes, a diving internship is lots of work.
SCUBA diving internships around Asia are plentiful. Where you ultimately decided to your diving internship will largely depend on how serious you are about becoming a dive instructor, how highly you value the quality of your instructor education and how focussed you want to be on your dive training.
Choosing to do your SCUBA diving internship in Sabah, Malaysia makes sense for the diver serious about becoming a quality instructor themselves, following tuition by those passionate about diving and maintaining high standards not just in their own business, but that of the diving industry in general.
If you choose Sabah, Malaysia for your SCUBA Diving Internship, you choose:
To find out more about Asian SCUBA Diving Internships in Sabah, Malaysia, simply fill out the contact form below. Or, if you’re interested in the SCUBA diving PADI IDC Instructor Development Course, surf on over to the PADI IDC Events Page.
Duchenne is one of those not-so-rare diseases that most of us have probably never heard about.
It’s a fatal muscle wasting disease that affects 1 in 3,500 boys across the globe. First it robs them of their ability to walk, and then before long they start struggling to speak, and eating and breathing becomes difficult.
Eventually it will take their lives, often before they reach the age of 20. The cruelest part of the disease is that it leaves their minds, and dreams, unaffected.
Cath Jayasuriya – a Sabahan of half Sri Lakan/Kadazan half English decent – is a mother of 3 and her son, 18 year old son Dusty, has Duchenne.
She lives in California, but has returned to Sabah to take on Mt. Kinabalu as a personal quest to reach its summit.
On 9 September, together with a team of 30 international climbers, Cath will climb Mt. Kinabalu to raise awareness of Duchenne and money for the foundation to help her son Dusty and the thousands of boys out there like him.
All the money raised will go directly to funding research that is promising for extending the lives and find a cure for those with Duchenne.
You can help make a difference by making a donation to Cath’s cause here.
Get to know Cath, her family and why she’s on this quest at her blog and find out more about Duchenne at www.CoalitionDuchenne.org.
Tonight SabahBah happily received news from Guinness that Arthur’s Day celebrations will return to Kota Kinabalu this year, bigger and bolder than the years before.
To mark the 3rd time that Arthur’s Day is observed in not just Malaysia, but Kota Kinabalu, Sabah and Borneo as well, Guinness is bringing exciting parties, thumping music and – of course – fabulous Guinness promotions to us in the run-up to the big day on 23 September.
Across Malaysia, including Kota Kinabalu, there will be more than 50 Guinness parties to attend for lovers of the famous black stout and, until further notice, Thursdays will now be known as arThursdays and proper protocol for sharing Guinness with your friends it to raise your glass and say “To Arhtur!”.
The Shamrock Irish Pub, The Loft, Cock & Bull and Jarrod & Rawlins, fine nightlife outlets in Kota Kinabalu, will be the choice venues for this year’s Arthur’s Day Guinness consumption.
Arthur’s Day celebrations in Kota Kinabalu takes place on 23 September and will kick of at 17:59, which represents the year in which the creator of awesome stout, Arthur Guinness, signed the 9,000 year lease for the brewery that brought us Guinness.
The celebrations in Malaysia are considered the largest Guinness celebrations outside of Ireland, which is no small achievement as it is observed in over 40 other countries.
Let’s get together to celebrate Arthur’s Day in Kota Kinabalu on the 23rd of September, raise our hearty pints of Guinness and make a toast To Arthur!
Celebrating a coal free future for Sabah, the Power to the People Party taking place at First Beach in Tanjung Aru next weekend, promises power, and party, for the people!
It’s a serious intention by people who love Sabah to get down to party and celebrate the people’s victory over coal in the state.
The party will be epic, says the organisers, and you must be insane to miss it. They promise all sorts of chaos like an urban market place with absolutely everything.
There will be organic veggies, solar panels, cup cakes, art, all sorts of dancing, capoeira (what’s that? come find out!).
Also, Ultimate Frisbee, Zumba Latin-inspired dance fitness with Michelle Koh, local and wholesome organic food and drinks by Hinompuka Catering.
There’s more: displays with NGOs and Citizen Movements, Green Surf’s Green Energy Campaign celebration of the launch of Project XXX – an exciting new initiative for Sabah, Borneo and the Pacific Rim.
All this to slamming beats curtesy of DJ Fine China, Asian Duo, DJ Phat Brown and Papi Johntoy.
What does it cost? Nothing. It’s people power baby, so be at First Beach Tanjung Aru this 1 April from 17:30 onwards.
Here’s to the People’s Dubs Dubs Dubs!
What’s the Borneo Headhunters Hat? I’m glad you asked. Come on in and I’ll tell you all about it.
But Ultimate players don’t use Frisbees, because that’s the trademarked name for a toy. Ultimate players don’t play with toys; they play with Ultimate discs, usually made by Discraft.
On a playing field, which is roughly the size of a football field, you have 2 teams with 7 players a side. Off the field teams can be as big us up to 30 players a side.
The field is divided into 3 parts. There’s the playing field proper which is a 64m long central playing area, and on each side of this area there’s an 18m end zone, which is where opposing teams score their points.
To score a point, a player of an opposing team has to catch the disc in the other team’s end zone. And that’s the basics. For more detail, read about Ultimate on sabahultimate.com.
Borneo Headhunters Hat
Back to the Borneo Headhunters Hat: it’s an Ultimate tournament, and the Borneo Headhunters Hat 2011 consists of 5 team of 15 players each.
It’s called a Hat, because traditionally individual players would put their name in a hat, which would then be drawn to form new, random teams with.
The principle remains the same, but we have to adjust the teams based on how players rated themselves to ensure a more even balance. It’s not perfect, but usually the teams come out reasonably balance, which makes for great play.
The Borneo Headhunters Hat 2011 takes place this year on 26 February and everybody is invited to come and watch this exciting game.
Check ou the event’s page for more details.
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