PADI Diving Society News
Dive team enters 'space'
Just Diving Limited were asked by Leicester University to provide a scuba-diving experience package for part of the Space School UK summer camp.
Space School UK is a residential summer school aimed at providing students who are interested in physics, astronomy and space science and technology a week-long package of activities.
To help the students understand about how micro gravity feels, and what it would be like to have to be an astronaut in space, Just Diving was asked to provide a scuba activity for around 60 young people.
Just Diving decided it would be a great idea if the students had to work together in teams to achieve a challenge without being able to talk to each other.
A special construction kit was found for underwater use, and an underwater moon buggy was designed for the team to build.
Each team started off with a safety brief and then took part in a PADI Discover Scuba programme under close supervision of Just Diving’s professional crew.
Following this, the team challenge was briefed, and each team had to select a commander of the fleet. Then, with simple instructions in hand, they were away battling ‘gravity’ and the clock to complete the building of their moon buggy.
Each team had 30 minutes to complete their challenge and did a fantastic job, with most teams completing the moon buggy.
CD candidates reach pinnacle
This year, an impressive total of 41 PADI Master Instructors from 21 countries completed PADI Course Director training in Malaysia.
The new Course Directors can be very proud of now having achieved the highest qualification in PADI’s system of diver education.
The training took place at the Magellan Sutera Harbour Resort in Kota Kinabalu, Borneo. The course included 12 days of highly intensive training, comprising nine days of developmental work followed by three days of tough evaluation by PADI staff.
Candidates also went through Emergency First Response Instructor Trainer, PADI Digital Underwater Photographer Instructor Trainer and DSAT Technical programmes.
The 41 new Course Directors join the ranks of the 1,200 existing Course Directors around the globe. PADI International Ltd wish to congratulate the candidates.
The new PADI Course Directors are Ehab Eldeftar, Beth Holwill, Karen Flannery, Keith Sleightholm, Richard Somerset, Philippa Shoobert, Sergey Semenenko, Bence Szentklaray, Mohammed Ismail, Joey Ridge, Yahya Khiry and Annelie Lövgren.
