Why choose Lanta Palm Beach Divers for your diving career ?

As with any other job you have done, you might have noticed that you are being hired on your interview, your resume and of course your character. You know what you would like to see in a Padi Dive master or Padi Dive Instructor, when you are fun diving or doing a dive course some where. I am sure you know good and not so good Padi Dive masters / Padi Dive Instructors. Places you would like to work and places you never want to go back to.
It is our job to make you the best possible Padi Dive master / Padi Dive Instructor, in a style that fits with your character. To build up your resume, so you will actually find a diving job, where you would like to work. To explain to you what you need to reach YOUR GOAL!

Simply stated we are here for you. We don’t only make sure you understand your dive theory, your swimming requirements and your practical requirements. We also allow you to grow, to adapt your own diving and teaching style and assist you with dive training and practice that will further build your dive professional resume.

Courses start price from 999 USD or 799 Euro’s (excl. Padi materials and excl. Padi fees) !!
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Palm Beach Divers offers you the very best PADI Dive Master Course.

Begin your scuba dive career with the first step – Padi Dive master. You’re eligible to start your PADI Dive Master training after 20 logged dives and successfully completing the PADI Advanced Diver and Padi Rescue Diver course. Working closely with a PADI scuba diving instructor, you expand your dive knowledge and hone your skills to the professional level. The most fulfilling part of the Padi Pro course is learning to supervise dive activities and assisting with diver training.

Padi Divemasters are qualified to supervise and assist with both training and non training dive activities. Padi dive centers and resorts around the world need PADI Dive masters to assist with dive classes and guide underwater tours. PADI Dive Masters may conduct the PADI Discover Local Diving experiences and Padi Scuba Review programs for certified divers. They may also conduct the PADI Discover Snorkeling experience and the PADI Skin Diver course, as well as qualify to teach the Padi Digital Underwater Photographer Specialty and Emergency First Response courses (you need to do a separate course with a Padi Course Director to achieve this)
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Are you a PADI Divemaster looking to take the next step?

You’re getting close. Now it’s time to start your PADI Dive Instructor Development Course (IDC). The IDC consists of two sections, the Padi Assistant Instructor (AI) course and the Padi Open Water Scuba Instructor (OWSI) program. This structure lets you divide the course into two blocks for schedule convenience if you need to. However, you may prefer to complete the two portions together, going through the entire Padi IDC in a minimum of seven days or longer (to prepare you better).

The first part of the PADI Dive Instructor Development Course (IDC) is the PADI Assistant Instructor course. This course provides you additional experience as a PADI Diving Professional and teaches you the PADI System of diver education.

The Padi Open Water Scuba Instructor program portion of the PADI IDC further hones your dive leadership and teaching skills to prepare you for life as a PADI Dive Instructor.
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Get your foot in the door!

Ever marveled about your holiday dive location and wondered about staying there forever ? Take a break from your hard working life or better change your life style ! Work anywhere in the world, where you would like to work ! Let us give you the right experience and education to start working in diving !

We will teach you how to become an excellent Padi Dive master or Padi Dive Instructor. We will also show you where to find dive jobs and how to apply. We will help you with applying and if we have openings in our Padi dive center, and you fit well in, you might be able to work here (this is not always possible, we only have a half year season).

Normally Padi Dive Instructors find dive jobs easily, Padi Dive Masters however might have to work somewhere to show they can do the job. If you are serious about having a career in diving and you do want to make yourself easy to employ, then you will have to become a Padi Dive Instructor and get some useful Padi Speciality Dive Instructors Certifications aswell. Or if you want to work as a Padi Dive Master: get some handy Padi specialities, like Padi Equipment Speciality, Padi Digital Photografy Instructor or Padi Emergency Oxygen Provider Instructor.
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Start your diving career online today with Padi's Elearning.

The first two days of your Padi IDC (Instructor Development) Course, you can now do from your own country, whenever you have time. Excellent as a preparation towards your Padi IDC Course and it gives you during your IDC Course more in water / diving time, instead of classroom time. Isn’t that what we all enjoy the best: the diving part ?

Now available online are: Padi Open Water Diver, Padi Advanced Diver, Padi Enriched Air (Nitrox) Diver, Padi digital photography diver, Scuba Review, the theory for the Padi Dive Master Course and some of the lectures for the Padi Assistant Instructors and Padi Instructors Course.

Click on the link at the top or copy and paste the below referral into your browser, to go to Padi’s online page, to start with any of the above online Padi diving courses:
https://www.padi.com/elearning-scuba-registration/default.aspx?irra=36138
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Latest news from Lanta Palm Beach Divers about the Anti-shark finning campaign together with Project AWARE

250 AWARE Divers and AU$2500 Raised For Conservation

September 2010 – Palm Beach Divers, Koh Lanta, Thailand gives regular donations to underwater conservation so far raising over AU$2500. Since January 2009 the Palm Beach team has inspired 250 individual divers to make a gift for underwater conservation.

Ingelise K. Bier, PADI Course Director at Palm Beach Divers said, “We organize Project AWARE cleanups throughout the year, have a mooring program, and a Shark AWAREness Specialty Program. Inspiring divers to donate to such a worthwhile nonprofit is another great way we can give something back to the marine world. We are proud to support Project AWARE Foundation.”

Look at the press releases:
Project AWARE Actions Blog: http://projectaware.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/palm-beach-divers-thailand-makes-commitment-to-underwater-conservation/

Project AWARE website: AWARE Diver: In the Spotlight : http://www.projectaware.org/content/index.php?pid=77

Project AWARE Facebook link: www.projectaware.org/facebook

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Welcome to Lanta Palm Beach Divers

We are the only Padi 5 star (IDC) dive center that has their dive boat located at the most beautiful beach of Lanta, Pra Ae (or Longbeach) and we bring you directly from this beach on Koh Lanta to Koh Ha and Koh Phi Phi.

Our swimming pool is the ocean straight in front of the dive resort.We also of course have a swimming pool in one of our resorts. No need to go anywhere else, we have the tropical island, beach, ocean, beautiful diving and resorts all in one hand and here for you to enjoy !

We believe in small groups, beautiful slow dives with experienced guides, high class dive courses (where you learn something), great fun, excitement, professional behavior in a safe and environmentally friendly surrounding. We love diving and teaching diving and would like to show you, what makes our under water world so special.

Padi Course Schedule 2010

Take a look at the PADI Instructor Development (IDC) & Instructor Examination (IE) Course
Schedule for 2010 & 2011.

Sign up for our september 2010 rainy season IDC now ! Get certified before the high season starts on Koh Lanta, get to do some diving before there are many divers, get accommodation and lots more included ! A nice way to start your living in Thailand experience ! Only 999 US Dollars or 799 Euro ! (IDC included on basis of own gear, excl. Padi materials & excl. Padi fees). Many free extra’s because of our rainy season !

Email us now on: lisa@palmbeachdivers.com

Padi Go Pro Prices

Check out our competitive prices for PADI Pro Courses. Sign up your friends or bring them with you and receive a generous group discount !!

Only 999 USD or 799 Euro for your Padi dive instructors course, if you are by yourself (online price only and have to be paid in advance). This is the price for the IDC Course. It is excl. Padi materials & excl. Padi fees. Sign up before the end of 2010 (take part before the end of 2011) and get a FREE Padi bag and shark AWARE card + t-shirt !

Our rainy season prices (between june and the end of september) are including basic accommodation, on a basis of 2 people sharing. Get what you get everywhere else in the world, with extra benefits, warm water, professional help and a great time for less money !

Why choose Lanta Palm Beach Divers ?

Padi Professionals, Padi 5 star IDC (dive) center, deluxe newly build dive boat Lila, shortest distance to the dive sites, leave directly from the beach, experienced, international staff, safe and fun, we dive all dive locations and teach all Padi dive and snorkel courses, small groups, high service, Go Eco Operator, we train you to become the best instructor (tailored learning), intensive training with excellent results, real life diving practices.

Best value for money !

Latest News
Dive Log

6 meter long whale shark on Hin Daeng !! 2012/02/08
Sat 28 Jan12 dolfins, sharks, turtles, everything on Bidas !! 2012/01/29
@RGjournalist Heb ik gedaan !! O, sorry, 2 walvishaaien gisteren.... Hoop dat jouw regio niet te gevaarlijk wordt, xxx, Lisa +staff 2012/01/07
Friday the 6th 2 whalesharks at Koh Ha, the day before 1 whaleshark at Hin Daeng and 2 days before 1 whaleshark at Koh Ha, they are back !!! 2012/01/07

Student Comments

Dear Palm Beach Divers, we would like to thank for 10 days of fun & pleasure ! We joined you for 210 hours under water, we have had 336000 liters of air, 168000 liters of Nitrox and unknown amount of beers at night in San Sunset Bar or at the dive center. We enjoyed the boat trip and introduced Thor into "ice-cube-diving"...We especially want to point out the flexibility of Lisa's dive planning and the deciscion to have 2 dives at dive sites with mantarays !! Remarkable as well was the 40rd birthday party for Lisa. We have been honored to be invited and had a lot of fun ! A good party as well was the "snorkeltest" from the new Padi Divemasters and our new Nitrox diver Tom. We enjoyed the show and felt like part of the staff. Last but not least we want to thank Matty and Claus for the best guidance under water and on the boat. We completely enjoyed our holiday staying with you ! "Die Kreuzigungstruppe" (Lilly, Tom, Silke, Petra, Juergen, Ralf & Kurt)

Die Kreuzigungstruppe, Germany, 2011

Many thanks for a great day of snorkeling and diving at Koh Ha. Very nice dive masters and guests on the boat, relaxed atmosphere and we saw lot of different sea life!

Oliver & Nicole (Germany)

Dear Palm Beach Divers Team, Thank you for some supreme teaching in Open Water Diving and a special thanks to Jesper, to my knowledge the best diving instructor north of the South Pole. Kind Regards

Jes Thomsen, Denmark, 2011

Very well organized, an excellent service on boat, land and dives, Very friendely and professional, the best I have found in 20 years

Gabriella, Padi Instructor, Italia, 2011

Thank you very much for makingus discover the unknown world of ocean.. When reaching the sandy bottom, it felt like walking on the moon for the 1st time, a small fin kick for experienced divers, but a big one for us beginners. You have shared with us your passion & knowledge and you have helped me overcoming the cold ! Thanks Adam & Simon and all the best for your amazing journey ! P.S: And this is only the beginning ! We highly recommend starting this adventure with Adam, he perfectly combines fun & teaching !

Severine & Niro, France & Switzerland, 2011

Hi Lisa, How are you. Our family had a great outing with your staff, enjoyed every minute of it. your staff is very friendly and professional. safety is always the top priority. I have uploaded some of the photos on facebook, some of my friends are starting to enquire where is this place. I hope to return soon with them. as promised some of the photos taken.

Raymond & Adrian Pau, Malaysia, 2011

Thank you so much for a great experience !! I am definetely "hookt" now. Jesper was an awesome instructor and I will recommend this place to everyone I know. Hope to see you again ! Hugs,

Jim from Sweden, 2011

Who would have thought you could turn a surfer into a diver ? Well done Remco ! A great big thanks to all for making learning fun, being so supportive, & knowledgeable & above all a real good laugh ! Had an absolutely amazing time under water and above. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You're all fab... even the slippery seasnake, you know who you are.. ! Please come & see us when you are in UK if you are down south. Who knows perhaps I can make surfers out of divers ? Cheers all, I will def. be back, love,

Naomi, England, 2011

Hi guys, Just finished IDC (Instructor Development Course) with Lisa. Hard course, but very glad I did it here. I was trained perfectly and thats exactly what I needed. For the examination it was the best support I could think about. A lot of moral support :-) and a lot of talking. Very special thanks to you Lisa for that! thanks for all of you guys for support and smiling all the time!!!

Christina, 20/12/2007

Thank you so much to everyone at Palm Beach Divers ! From the very first email we knew how special this diving experience was going to be - Lisa went out of her way to help us organize a special honeymoon package ! ( a scuba review for me and an Open Water Course for my husband and heaps of fun extras !) She also greeted us with smiles and humor every morning - as did everyone else in the dive shop. Our Padi instructor Pan was THE BEST. We could not have asked for a more experienced, patient or fun mentor ! We love you Pan, "the Aquaman " ! Next time we're in Lanta we will definetely come back to dive with you again ! Big thanks,

Ash & Christina Hazelwood, Australia, 2011

thank you all so much. I've had a fantastic time here diving and the island is nice too! Sorry I didn't get to see the whale shark,but al teast that gives me something to come back for! Special thanks to Levke for all her instructions and to Laurenfor being a great buddy all week. See you next year.

Connie, Australia, 18/12/2007

We saw a whale shark on our very last dive (secret garden) for our Koh Lanta trip. A fantastic ending to 5 days of fun diving. Apologies if my boys gave Palm Beach Divers a major headache underwater! Thumbs up to your dive operation, very good job done!

Louise, Rafi, Emmanuel & Darwin, Singapore,16/12/2007

Just finished open water and advanced with instructor Dee. Learned a lot, saw even more... Shark, school of barracudas, turtle, octopus, squid and a short glimpse of a beautiful beautiful manta. Thank you so much!

Anna & Tobias, Sweden, 15/12/2007

Did the open water course. Great time, learning a lot! Excellent, thanks for everything!

Ben

thank you for the great 2 diving trips out to Koh Ha! Great diving, nice guides and good food! We'll be back!!! Excellent Padi course with Dee, the military instructor!

Marc & Iris, Germany, 10/12/2007

het was hier fantastisch, leuke behulpzame staf en mooie duiken gemaakt. We komen zeker terug, maar wanneer...!!! The diving has been great. We have seen from Manta's till nudibranch. The guideshave a great eye to find the special underwater environment. They have been verry helpfull diving the whole weeks.

Karin & Theo, 07/12/2007

Thanks to everyone for a nice holiday.

Peter H.

Iedereen bedankt voor de leuke tijd, en de geweldige ervaring! Palm Beach Divers een echte aanrader. Thanks!

Remco en Inge, 26/11/2007

* great dive sites! * Very frinedly staff! * Excellent service! (liked the huge variety of exotic fruits very much)

Absolutely lovely dives and fantastic staff all around. Everyone was very attentive and clearly very experienced... Thank you so much for showing us such wonderful dive spots and being so caring and friendly!

Guyer & Nela, Vancouver BC, 19/11/2007

Wonder why I wasn't diving all this while, a great experience... Dee, I do credit you for heaving to deal with me... Thanks a lot for all of this and hopefully a lot more diving experience. Lots of love.

thank you so much for an amazing diving experience. I started at being nervous, unsure and finished feeling a bit addicted to diving already! Hendrik you were fantastic, a bit scary, but I feel like a much better diver for it! Hopefully I'll be back again soon...!

Anna, 2007

Bonjour mes amies! Thanks so much everyone, especially Dee!! I had a great time during my course. I felt so comfortable doing all those new things with you guys! I can't imagine any other place being better. Truly an amazing experience!

Jilly, 2007

Eh! Thanks guys the fun dives were great. It was the funniest course I've done!!

Jenn, 12/11/2007

Many thanks Palm Beach Divers for the professional and relaxed atmosphere this week which has made my dives very enjoyable and memorable. Hope you all have a good high season. Best regards,

Thomas C., 08/11/2007

Great shop and lovely people! Love to see you again! Thanks,

Ryan Webster, 2007

To all Palm Beach Divers, Thanks a lot for such a good experience underwater! It was the right desicion to do the Open Water course and it was the right decision to do it here! Greetings to the turtle!

Barbara & Tina, Germany, 23/10/2007

Lisa, Hello! My name is Chris Meyer, I went diving with you guys back in January, with the Britisch fellow Lee as our Dive Master. I came with my friend Chris Busse, his girlfriend Not and my wife Sunanta. I was packing my bag tonight and found one of your Palm Beach Diver flyers and it brought back a lot of fond memories. Especially of Lanta. I also realized I had never contacted you guys after we left to tell you what a good time we had and how much we enjoyed your hospitality. I just wanted to tell you we had a great time all around, we would recommend Palm Beach Divers to anyone! Please thank Lars, Thomas and most especially Lee for us!

Chris Meyer, 10/08/2007

Hey everyone, Thanks for some very nice days, dives and talks! It's sad we have to leave, but we will be back! Promise!! Thanks for your way of being! See you again! Love,

Rasmus, 2007

Inguar, Wessel, Jonathan and Irene thanks the gang: Lars, Lisa, Hendrik, Dee for the best diving we ever had! Awesome stuff!!

Inguar, Wessel, Jonathan and Irene, 2007

Thanks Dee, Lars, Lee and all the Palm Beach crew. Had a fabulous dive after 5 years on land. Thanks to Dee especially for taking great care of me underwater. I felt completely at ease on both dives.

Julie, Melbourne, Australia, 05/04/2007