Tag: Phuket

PADI IDC+ 4 weeks Internship 2025
Are you looking to gain experience after successfully completing our PADI IDC and Instructor Examination? Then our 4 weeks internship program is for you. We accept bookings now, for our IDC Candidates to join our Teach & Lead Pro Experience Internship with our PADI Platinum Course Director, Thien and gain dive professional experience at our dive center. You will have the opportunities to train and dive from our dive sites at Kata Bay, on board day boats or Liveaboard boat MV Koon9.

All candidates completing our PADI IDC are qualified to sign up for this program and have the option to stay on for 4 weeks after the IE to gain teaching experience while also earning tips & stipend for teaching PADI courses, dive leading and sales at our 5 STAR IDC Center in Kata Beach, Phuket.

Here are the general details. For Thailand Visa info and travel planning, use our contact info below.

Programs upcoming Schedule & Information

2025 March: 6-14 (IE: 15-16)

2025 November: 12-21 (IE: 22-23)

Click here for our 2025 PADI IDC schedule.
- PADI IDC Prep & Sites Orientation (1 day before IDC)
- 2025 Updated PADI IDC & EFRI Course
- PADI Instructor Examination (follow immediately after the last day of the IDC)
- Specialty Instructor Courses (gain more ratings to teach more PADI courses)
- Teach & Lead Pro Internship at our 5 Star Dive centers
Program Inclusions:
+ PADI Required Instructor Materials (NEW 2025 PADI IDC digital crew Pak & Slates)
+ EFR Instructor Elearning Digital Pak Lite: CPR/1st AID & Care for Children
+ Three Core competency specialties training Instructor Courses: EANx, Sharks Conservation, Emergency Oxygen Provider
+ up to 4 weeks shared accommodation in our Divers’ Hostel in Kata Beach, Phuket, just a short walk to our Kata Reef Dive sites and the resort for PADI IE
+ Access to our PADI latest training materials for your IDC Prep (complete at your own pace prior to arrival)
+ Wifi internet Access 24/7
+ Practical Internship placement after Successful completion of IDC, passing the IE and receive official Teach Status from PADI Office (Placements will be with our 5 Star IDC center in Phuket or its branches)
+ Earnings for Intern during the 4 weeks internship from conducting PADI programs, leading dive activities, sales and tips depending on performance.
PADI IDC+ Internship (4 weeks) Price: 79,900 THB

Note: Not included in the program are PADI Application fees and Instructor Examination fee.

PADI Fees (2025)

Below are the PADI required costs that you will need to account for. All of the administrative processes are handled by the PADI Asia Pacific Office in Sydney, Australia. Your application fees are to be paid (via Credit Card or bank transfer) directly to PADI office in Australian Dollars.
- Instructor Examination: 1,190 AUD (pay online)
- Instructor Application Processing Fee: 350 AUD (pay online)
- Emergency First Response Instructor Application Fee: 242 AUD (pay online)
- Specialty Instructor Certification Method 1 (Submit application after you completed training with your Course Director): 139 AUD per specialty instructor rating (pay via pdf application)
Email your interest to our Divers Training Manager at idc@rumblefishadventure.com

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27/02/2024
PADI Self-Reliant Specialty Diver Course (2024)
Become a Self-sufficient Diver to Increase Your Safety and Freedom While Enjoying Your Dive

The purpose of the Self-Reliant Diver specialty course is to recognize and accept the role of the buddy system and its contributions to diver safety while identifying and developing self-reliance and independence while diving. Self-reliant diving doesn’t mean leaving your buddy at the first chance. Properly practiced, diving independently is a disciplined form of scuba rooted in careful planning and self-sufficiency. It requires the proper gear, training and attitude.

This PADI course covers when diving alone may be applicable, and the need to compensate for those situations, including dive planning, life support system readiness, adaptive training, equipment and responsibility.

There are two reasons for an experienced diver to take the Self-Reliant diver course:
1. To develop the skills of planning and carrying out dives without a partner when preferred or necessary.
2. To sharpen skills of diving self-reliance, making the diver a stronger partner in a dive pair or team.
This course is an introduction to self-reliant diving that helps student divers develop the skills, knowledge and techniques necessary to rely on themselves first, whether or not they are diving with a partner, including:
- The value and application of the buddy system.
- The philosophy of, and motivation for, diving without a partner.
- Potential risks of diving alone, and how to manage those risks.
- The value of equipment redundancy and what back-up equipment is needed.
- Dive planning and gas management.
Prerequisite

to qualify for the Self-Reliant Diver course, an individual must:
1. Be certified as a PADI Advanced Open Water Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization.
2. Have a minimum 100 logged dives.
3. Be 18 years of age or older.
4. Successfully complete a dive skills assessment by a PADI Self- Reliant Diver Specialty Instructor.
Equipment Requirements – Student Diver
- Standard dive equipment (BCD, Regulator, fins, mask, exposure suit, dive computer or depth gauge & timing device)
- Surface marker buoy, such as a delayed surface marker buoy (DSMB) or lift bag with at least 30 meters of line
- Redundant gas source – pony cylinder, twin cylinders with isolation valve or Sidemount configuration. Redundant gas supply must be configured so that the diver can access it with one hand **
- Redundant depth gauge and bottom timer, or dive computer
- Redundant surface signaling devices (both visual and audible)
- Knife/cutting tool (except where locally prohibited)
- Slate and pencil
- Back-up mask (recommended)
Training Dives: 3 dives

Course Duration: minimum 1.5 day, recommended 2 days

Course Price (including PADI certification upon successful completion and redundant gas source rental **): from 12,900 THB

Not include: boat fees (if diving from boat trip), Dive Accident Insurance and any repeat skills training session to meet course certification requirements.

Advance Booking only. So, are you up for the challenge? Please contact us to inquire about our PADI Trainer schedule availability via our Contact Page or Google Map Business Page.
03/01/2024
Deluxe PADI Course + Dive Computer
Get your PADI Open Water Certification and take home with you one of divers’ most important gears to own, a dive computer.

Over a relaxed three to four days (6 dives), dive the best of Phuket during your PADI Open Water Course with full day diving trips to the Raya Islands and Phi Phi Marine Park during your training dives. The Course includes: a Cressi Leonardo Dive Computer for you to dive with and keep to continue your fun dives safely in the future.

(available while supplies last)
- PADI Elearning Lite Pak to complete your academic leisurely from home
- Complete set of rental SCUBA equipment for training
- Relaxed and proper Pool training sessions (on day 1)
- 4 training dives and 2 fun dives at the Raya Islands and Phi Phi Marine Park (weather permitting)
- Private PADI Instructor for maximum 2:1 ratio (Experienced PADI Instructors available for early booking: German, Japanese, Vietnamese, Thai & Chinese)
- Freshly cooked breakfast and lunch for 2 days during the boat trips
- FREE shared transfer from your hotel or resort (in Chalong, Rawai, Kata, Karon & Patong areas)
- Dive Tour Insurance and more
Course Price: 22,900 THB (regular rate 24,290 THB)

Contact us to book your course today!
24/07/2022
Care & Share For Kata Project: 50% off Kata Beach Dives
SAVE 50% off our Shore Dives for the all April weekends during Thailand’s Songkran Holidays when you support our local community vendors and businesses. To receive the 50% Discount Offer, all you have to do is make a purchase at any of our “locally owned” businesses in Kata Beach, then post/tag/share a “WEFIE photo” of you and the vendor/staff/seller to any of our social media page with the hashtag #careandshareKataBeach.
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Google: https://g.page/RumblefishAdventure
IG: @rumblefishThailand

Kata Bay Shore Dives Rate
(per diver, includes all equipment, expert local dive guides)
* 1,390 THB (one dive) [Care & Share Rate: 695 THB]
* 1,990 THB (two dives) [Care & Share Rate: 995 THB]
* 2,500 THB (2 day dives & 1 night dive) [Care & Share Rate: 1,250 THB]

Not yet certified and like to try it out? Sign-up for our PADI Discover Scuba Experience, learn privately with our experienced PADI Instructors then scuba dive to see the amazing marine life at Kata Reef!
* 1,900 THB (one Discover Scuba Experience dive) [Care & Share Discount Rate: 1,450 THB]

Terms & Conditions
To receive the 50% Discount Offer, all you have to do is buy/sleep/eat with any of our local businesses in Kata Beach, then share a “WEFIE photo” of yourself to our Fb Page or Instagram or Google business:
- With purchased food/snacks/drinks from a local vendor on Kata Beach, or
- With a restaurant wait staff where you dine or a masseuse where you got a massage, or
- With a store staff where you shop (excluding corporate chained stores such as 7-11, Lotus, SuperCheap, Makro or BigC) or
- With a hotel | resort staff where you stay. You get 50% DISCOUNT OFF your dives with us for the weekend at Kata.
- Our “Care & Share” project is open to all everyone, regardless of nationalities.
30/03/2021

Phuket Save the Sea Project

Join us and the residents of Kata Karon District from 1 – 7 April 2021 for a “Dive Festival” supporting the small businesses in this hardest hit community. Below are the diving activities planned for Kata Beach during this amazing week.

Underwater Photo Marathon

•กิจกรรม : การแข่งขันถ่ายภาพใต้น้้าต่อเนื่อง 7 วัน เพื่อส่งประกวดภาพถ่ายใต้น้้าที่สวยงามและตรงหัวข้อ “อนุรักษ์ทะเลภูเก็ต” ชิงเงินรางวัลและของที่ระลึกสุดพิเศษ

Activities: A 7-day continuous underwater photography competition to submit beautiful and relevant underwater photography contests. "Phuket Marine Conservation" winners include prizes and special souvenirs.
•Date: 1st-7th April 2021
•Location : Kata beach

•เงื่อนไขการเข้าร่วมกิจกรรม :(สาหรับผู้เข้าร่วมการแข่งขัน)
Terms and Condition for Participate
1.สมัครเข้าร่วมการแข่งขันระหว่างวันที่ 15-28 มีนาคม 2564
1. Sign-up for the contest dates: 15-28 March 2021

2.รายงานตัวเข้าร่วมการแข่งขันตามขั้นตอนดังนี้
-โพสต์ภาพของผู้เข้าแข่งขันก่อนเริ่มท้ากิจกรรม
-ระบุชื่อ-นามสกุล/ Check-In แหล่งด้าน้้า
-ใส่ #phuketsavetheseaproject
2. Enter your photos into the competition by the following steps. - Post pictures for the contest before the challenge begins. 
- Enter your first name-last name / Check-In source - then use the hashtag #phuketsavetheseaproject

3.ส่งรูปภาพที่ดีที่สุดและตรงหัวข้อมากที่สุดภายในวันที่ 7 เมษายน 2564 ให้แก่คณะกรรมการจากนิตยสาร อสท. เป็นผู้ตัดสิน
3. Submit your best and most relevant pictures by April 7, 2021 will be selected by judges from the CAT Magazine.

4.ททท.ส้านักงานภูเก็ต จะประกาศผลผู้ชนะเลิศในวันที่ 12 เมษายน 2564โดยผู้ชนะเลิศจะได้ของรางวัลและได้รับการตีพิมพ์ภาพถ่ายในนิตยสาร อสท. ฉบับเดือนพฤษภาคม 2564
4. TAT Phuket Office will announce the winner of the competition on April 12, 2021. The winners will receive their prizes and their photos will be published in the May 2021 issue of the อสท magazine.

Diving Fun & Fair

กิจกรรม : การจัดกิจกรรม Phuket –Save the Sea Project ซึ่งประกอบด้วยกิจกรรมด้าน้้าเพื่อการอนุรักษ์และการด้าน้้าเพื่อนนันทนาการ
•วัน-เวลา : 3-4 เมษายน 2564 / 10.00 น. –22.00น.
•สถานที่จัดงาน : หาดกะตะฝั่งคลองปากบาง
•กิจกรรมต่างๆภายในงาน

1.กิจกรรมด้าน้้าเก็บขยะ
2.กิจกรรมด้าน้้ากลางคืน (Night Dive)
3.กิจกรรมรวมพลคน Freediving
4.กิจกรรมเก็บขยะแลกไอศกรีม
5.กิจกรรม Workshop
6.การออกร้านของผู้ประกอบการร้านด้าน้้าหน้าหาดกะตะ
7.ประติมากรรมขยะทะเลสร้างสรรค์
8.การออกร้านอาหารแบบ Food Truck
9.ดนตรี
10.กิจกรรมอื่นๆ

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27/02/2021

Protecting Our Reef & Marine Life
6th March 2020 – After 2 years of lobbying and pursuing various government agencies, we finally got a Reef Buoy Line back around Kata Reef. With the support of local professional divers, Kata communities and the Phuket Rescue Center at Kata Beach, 60 orange buoys line, approximately 250 meters long, were tied down to protect the reef.
- Receiving delivery of the buoys
- sizing up the lines
- A quick chat with the Vice Governor
- Deploying the buoys
- view from the beach
Since the pandemic has closed borders to Thailand, the reef has been thriving over the past year, despite increased “bad fishing” practices. With the economy crashing in Phuket, Kata and Karon towns had seen a lost of almost 80% in population and close to 90% of the businesses shuttered doors. Kata sub-district is one of the hardest hit community in Thailand due to increased travel restrictions and borders closure. When the borders open again, you can plan your vacation by booking a five star resort and charting a private flight from Jettly.

To ensure that our seas, beaches and coral reefs are not getting abandoned, we extended our Care & Share Initiative to also support the protection of our marine environment. With the support any divers coming to learn to dive, taking PADI Dive courses or joining in our dive trips, we share our small earnings to raise funding for regular projects in Dive Against Debris, recovery of deadly discarded ghost nets, beach and reef clean-ups.
- Marking the anchor blocks
- Volunteer divers tying up the Reef Line
- Volunteer diver tying the reef line
10/02/2021
Kata Reef is Thailand Best Beach Dive Site

One of Thailand’s top beach Scuba dive sites, Kata Beach North Reef in Phuket is opened for 6 months and the diving here has been spectacular since 2001. With easy walk-in conditions, 4 dive sites, relaxed shallow dives, Kata Reef lets divers take their time to take photos of some of the coolest and weirdest creatures in the Andaman Sea. In our first week, we have found Marble shrimp, juvenile Reef cuttlefish, White spotted hermit crab and our resident turtle.

From 1st November until the end of April, we’ll do daily day and night dives, certified beginner or experienced divers all are welcome. Price: 1,490 THB (inclusive of full set Scuba equipment rental) for 1 long dive (60-80 minutes) and 1,600 THB for night dive.

Bring your own equipment? discount 250 THB

See more live up-to-date sightings of marine life on our Rumblefish Adventure Facebook page.

01/10/2020
2019 Phuket IDC & Employment
We have openings for PADI IDC with Employment Internship for our 2019-20 Phuket Dive Season. These positions are opened for interviews to any PADI Divemaster or any dive leaders from other training organizations (SSI, SDI, RAID, NAUI and GUE are very welcome to apply). If you read to this point, then you are serious about looking for the proper professional training program to advance your dive professional credentials. Please read on below for the program details.

About the Program

Our PADI IDC training program is not an ‘IDC Factory.’ We focus on training and development of our professional candidates (4 at a time per IDC). For the chosen candidates staying on for our Work Internship, we offer proper paperwork to apply for qualified employment Thai Visa right after you successfully complete the IDC and IE. We also include LEGAL work permit, salary for teaching courses, tips for excellent customer services and Thailand required employment & social security taxes for the internship candidates. Basically, you are in the program LEGALLY according to the Labor Law of Thailand.

Internship Program Dates:
- 8 July – 15 October 2019 (1 position open for application)
- 15 October 2019 – 15 February 2020 (2 positions open for application)
- 14 November 2019 – 13 February 2020 (2 positions open for application)
Below are summary information of the training the candidates can expect during the Internship program.

Training Programs: DM Skills Review (2 days) + IDC Prep (1 day) + Instructor Development Course (IDC, 9 days) + EFR Instructor Course (1 day) + Instructor Examination (2 days) + Master Scuba Diver Trainer Prep Program (5 specialties instructor training) Ratings gain at completion: up to 7 Instructor certifications

Detailed Inclusions:
1. √ Three months LEGAL Work Internship after successfully passing the IDC & IE (includes: Thai Visa support & Work Permit, weekly salary for teaching and tips for exceptional customer service performance)
2. All PADI Required Instructor Materials (PADI IDC Basic Pak, #60143: Instructor Guide to Teaching, slates, exam booklets & Digital specialties Instructor Manual)
3. EFR Instructor Guides: CPR/1st AID & Care for Children
4. Core competency specialties training: EANx∞, Deep, Sharks Conservation, Oxygen Provider & Navigation (or choose from Digital Underwater Photography, Search & Recovery, Night [only Oct-April], Gas Blender∞ plus more) ∞ Additional pre-requisite apply.
5. Access to our PADI latest training materials for your IDC Prep (complete at your own pace prior to arrival)
6. Business Start-up hands-on Training: Hostel, equipment services & purchasing, Social Media Marketing, Profit from Selling PADI materials Seminar.You can also find remote jobs to show your innovation along with personal growth.
7. Receive Dealer discounts (30% or more) for equipment purchases from Aqualung, Scuba Pro, Suunto, SEAC and more!
8. Shared accommodation in our Divers’ Hostel during your internship, conveniently located in the the center of Kata Beach and just a short walk to our Kata Reef Dive Site
9. Employment placement: Upon completion, we will assist you to set-up interviews with our strategic dive center & resort partners around Asia when you are ready to commit to further employment
IDC Work Internship Program Price: 75,900 THB

Note: Not included in the program are PADI Application fees and Instructor Examination fee.

To be considered, email your interest to our Divers Training Manager at idc@rumblefishadventure.com to set up a call via WhatsApp, FB Messenger or Skype.

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13/03/2019