Indonesia PADI IDC

Posted on August 6, 2016 by oceans5dive

Pourquoi choisir Oceans 5 Dive Resort pour votre formation de professorat PADI?

 

Indonesia PADI IDC at a Oceans 5 Gili Air

Indonesia PADI IDC at a Oceans 5 Gili Air

A la recherche d’un centre de formation PADI pour votre formation d’instructeur? Le choix sur internet peut vous paraitre impossible, tant d’informations!!! Laissez nous vous aider dans votre choix: pourquoi choisir Oceans 5 Dive Resort sur la petite ile tropicale de Gili Air en Indonésie?

Regardons en premier lieu les facteurs que vous recherchez pour votre formation:

Professionalisme Ö

Fun Fun Fun!! Ö

Attention personelle Ö

Devenir un modèle à suivre Ö

Aspiration à devenir un leader Ö

Petits groupes Ö

Aspiration à devenir un bon instructeur et non simplement passer un examen Ö

Langues: français, anglais, néerlandais, espagnol, chinois, allemand, turque Ö

A Oceans 5 Dive Resort à Gili Air, Indonésie, nous avons le luxe d’avoir 3 Courses Directeurs à temps complet et de pouvoir vous offrir les IDC dans 7 langues. Cela signifie que vous pouvez beneficier des meilleures conditions d’apprentissage et d’une formation, sur mesure en petit groupe. Nous vous donnons donc toutes les chances d’une réussite assurée en tant qu’instructeur de plongée PADI.

Consacrant son but dans la création d’individus hautement professionnels, Oceans 5 Dive Resort fier de son succès sur la prestation de qualité à tous les niveaux de l’éducation et sur l’investissement dans des installations de classe mondiale pour créer un environnement d’apprentissage détendu: 2 grandes piscines, une enorme sale de classe climatisée, un bateau et son equipage dédié aux IDC et des équipements de haute qualité.

Alors pourquoi ne pas combiner votre apprentissage en profitant de l’ile tropicale de Gili Air, Indonésie, une petite île entourée d’une immense biodiversité sous-marine où aucun transport motorisé n’est autorisé et où à fin de la journée nous regardons le coucher du soleil en sirotant une Pina Colada !!

Contactez nous pour plus d’information sur idc@oceans5dive.com, ou visitez notre site: www.oceans5dive.com

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PADI IDC of Julien

Posted on July 15, 2016 by oceans5dive

 

 

PADI IDC at Oceans 5 Gili Air

 

Julien's PADI IDC at Oceans 5 Gili Air

Julien’s PADI IDC at Oceans 5 Gili Air

 

Beginning of July Julien walked into the diving shop.  He has a dream: he likes to become a PADI Dive Instructor. He was lucky because of that  Oceans 5 Gili Air conducts every month  a PADI  IDC. So he started straight away his PADI IDC preparation with PADI Course Directors Joeri, Giny and Sander. We will help Julien to achieve his dream!

The next PADI IDC starts the 11th of August with Joeri and Giny

 

Julien’s PADI IDC

J’au passé mon IDC en juillet 2016 sur la petite ile paradisiaque de Gili air, en Indonésie entouré d’un super groupe de plongeur venu d’un peu partout. Ayant passé mon Divemaster quelques années plus tôt, j’ai profité de l’opportunité que me donnait mon centre de plongée Océan 5 pour arriver une semaine avant et effectuer une pré-prépa et également faire quelques fun dive à l’oeil.

J’ai ainsi pu commencer la formation IDC plus sereinement même si bien sur celle ci m’a demandée beaucoup d’implication et de travail. Nos instructeurs Joery et Giny ont su s’adapter au rythme de chacun d’entre nous tant au niveau de la langue que pour la pédagogie. Et grâce aux bonnes structures d’Océan 5, ainsi que de la super ambiance entre tous, la formation à été un vrai bonheur. Je vous souhaite à tous de pouvoir préparer votre PADI IDC dans ces conditions, c’est le top. Un grand merci à OCEAN 5.

 

if you are interested in doing your PADI IDC with Oceans 5 Gili Air, write Joeri or Giny an email at info@oceans5dive.com

 

 

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Take the PADI IDC in our own language

Posted on June 30, 2016 by oceans5dive

Starting your PADI IDC

When you are looking around to start your PADI IDC you will not only compare the price there are a lot of reason to do a course at other places than were the PADI IDC was the cheapest.

 

PADI IDC Gili Islands with PADI Course Directors Joeri and Giny

PADI IDC Gili Islands with PADI Course Directors Joeri and Giny

But at the end you will invest a lot of money in your future. You have to pay for the IDC, EFRI, PADI and EFR fees, PADI materials and maybe for a MSDT program.

A lot of people saved this amount of money by working hard in their home town or emptying their bank saving. They want to follow their dream to become a PADI Instructor and they want to work at a tropical island like Gili Air.

Starting the Instructor Training Course with the pressure, you have to pass it because you have to pay your debt back or all your savings are gone, doesn’t help you to relax.

But is it your dream and you like to do it this way, Oceans 5 has more ways to get you relax during the PADI IDC. For example is English is not your native speaking language than you don’t have to worry. Oceans 5 has 3 in the house course directors and they cover the following languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish and German. Also there is a Staff Instructor who speaks Chinese and Japanese. During the IDC you will always have some little problems or questions, so what is easier to ask them in your own languages and get the answer in the same language.

Another benefit of the Instructor Training Course at Oceans 5 Gili Air is, the confined sessions will be done in a separate training pool from all the other courses. This give you as candidate the time and space for your Confined Presentation without thinking about other students or other instructors passing or swimming around you.

If you like to have more information about the PADI IDC Gili Islands write an email to Course Director Giny or Joeri at IDC@oceans5dive.com

 

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Gili Island Etiquette

Posted on May 2, 2016 by oceans5dive

Gili Island Etiquette

 

 

No bikinis on the streets

No bikinis on the streets

 

Why do you want to travel to the Gili Islands in Indonesia? Just like a lot of people you are probably want to discover tropical places and different cultures, open your mind, your heart and have fun. When travelling, it is important to blend in and respect the local populations we are visiting so that we don’t offend anyone and fully live the experience of travelling abroad.

So if you are coming to visit the tropical paradise of the Gili Islands, please note a few local dos and donts to help you have a happy stay:

Behaviour:

– In the local culture, it is very rude to point with the feet, so if you need to show something, use your hands

– When giving or receiving something, when eating or touching use your right hand. The left hand is used for other businesses…

– Remove your shoes when entering a building and wait to be invited to sit if you are a guest.

– Smiling and having fun happen naturally when on holiday. Some situations can sometimes be a little frustrating or tiring. Try and deal with these keeping a smile on, the issue will be resulted much easier. Shouting and screaming are very counterproductive and rarely brings a solution. Just keep smiling!

Dress Codes:

As most of the population on the Gili Islands and being located in Asia and mostly muslim, the dress codes here are very different than in the western world. People are modest and cover their body and sometimes their head. Of course as tourists, we are not expected to dress the same way, but we are expected to be respectful! There are signs around the islands, which keep on being ignored. So please be aware!!

– When walking around the island and in villages, tourists need to wear clothes, shorts and t-shirts are good, bikinis are not. When in doubt, put it on!

– On the beach or on a dive boat, bikini and swimwear are accepted, please do note that being topless or wearing very small and revealing bikinis or G-strings are not. So please cover your bits!

We hope that this blog with help you enjoy your holiday and the tropical paradise to the fullest. Please do get in touch on info@oceans5dive.com for any further information on etiquette or scuba diving at all levels. Happy Holiday!!

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PADI Divemaster Simone: her story

Posted on April 17, 2016 by oceans5dive

PADI Divemaster Simone:her story!

PADI Divemaster Simone at Oceans 5 Gili Air.JPG

On beachy sand, close to Gili Air’s pier, Lombok, Indonesia, stands a remarkable building. With the palmtrees, tropical coffee bar and swimming pool in the back, seemed this the perfect place for me to spend a couple of months. I welcome you to the dive shop, and my second home, Oceans 5 Dive Resort.

I am Simone, 23 years old and a proud Dutchy! Last couple of months I’ve had the pleasure of doing my Divemaster Candidateship (DMC) in Oceans 5 Dive Resort. I’d already been fun diving with them in November and instantly felt comfortable and happy. So it wasn’t a tough decision to choose a place to do my DMC.

When I arrived in January I was quite blank, I was an advanced open water diver and had 18 dives, but they took good care of me. We started with working on my dive numbers and dive techniques by just making a lot of dives, next to that we also did my EFR and Rescue course and even the Nitrox speciality. In this time we got a lot of workshops and started working on general diving skills. Luckily for me there were a lot of other DMC’s doing the same thing. This helped in so many ways, from just having a good time all together to helping each other out with certain assignments.

PADI Divemaster training at Oceans 5 dive resort Gili Air in Indonesia
During my whole divemaster the instructors at Oceans 5 Dive Resort were all very helpful and competent, with each instructor having his or hers own talents and expertise. Of course different people cause different opinions but also more knowledge. Two know more than one right?! It’s a good thing that Oceans 5 Dive Resort let you work with all those different people so that in the end you have seen a lot of different ways to work and act.
In general I can fully say that the people working in Oceans 5 Dive Resort take a lot of time for you, that they work in a really professional and PADI correct way and that it’s just a nice team and place to be. I really enjoyed my time here and the most important thing is that I can say that I’ve grown a lot in this experience. In the end I’m excited to be at the start of my dive adventure and ready to learn more and more, building on everything I’ve learned so far. Thank you Oceans 5, it has been awesome!
Please contact us on info@oceans5dive.com for further information on diving from beginner to professional level.

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Giny’s PADI CDTC experience

Posted on April 10, 2016 by oceans5dive

My PADI CDTC experience
PADI CDTC 2016

After years of teaching diving at all levels throughout the world, I started the road to the PADI Course Director Training Course in 2014. Sander Buis and Joeri van Hal were great mentors in Oceans 5 Dive Resort in Gili Air, Indonesia and cannot thank them enough for their support. The CDTC is a course for PADI Master Instructors who meet the requirements and have gone through a thorough application process. When successful, the CDTC Candidates become Course Directors and can conduct Instructor Development Courses (IDC) independently and thus, be part of the elite scuba diving instructor trainer community.

PADI CDTC Open Water Dives

I arrived a couple of days before the course started in mid March 2016 to have some time to explore the beautiful region of Sabbah, Malaysia. Once acclimatized, I was ready to embark on the 9 day journey driven by the team of highly experienced and qualified PADI evaluation staff. They guided us through a journey to the Elite!! The course was hosted in the beautiful setting of the Shangri La Hotel in Kota Kinabalu. The hotel is spacious enough to accommodate all the candidates and served us amazing food at lunch and snacks throughout the days. Borneo Divers, the dive shop located in the hotel, took exceptional good care of all of us during the pool and the open water sessions. The latters were held on the gorgeous tropical Mamutik island which gave us all a nice break from the classroom sessions.
PADI CDTC

 

Each day, the 42 candidates from over 20 countries and divided in 6 teams, played different roles in various environments: the IDC student role giving IDC presentation in the classroom, in the confined water and in the open water; and the evaluator’s role, role the Course Director has during the IDC. Evaluations on our evaluations were given to us each day, so that we could all progress in the areas we needed. This part of the course, of constantly being evaluated was a little stressful at first for me but throughout the days, as I got to know my teammates and build confidence and managed to relax more and more. During the course, a part of each day was spent in a conference room where, in turn, the PADI team gave us presentations on various topics, thus delivering great tools for teaching at the highest level. The Psychology of Evaluation presentation was one of the most fascinating for me as I have used a lot of psychology through my teachings over the years to get the messages through to students with very different personalities, issues and abilities.

PADI CDTC Open Water Dives

Each team was given a mission at the beginning of the course: build a Dive Operation and attract James Morgan, PADI Americas “Vice President of Training and Customer Service” to do an IDC with this Dive Operation. After many team meetings and brainstorming sessions and utilizing all of our newly acquired skills, Team Hamachi won the final contest of the CDTC!!! We won James’ heart. I felt it was a great team building exercise; we put all of our skills together, broke the language barriers and learnt a lot from each other. Team Hamachi was made of 3 Japanese, 1 Singaporean, 1 American, 1 New Zealander and 1 French. After 9 fun days building skills, team spirit and friendships, PADI put on a great show to reward the hard work of the 42 of us! After an early evening aperitif in the gardens of the Shangri La, the show started!!!! Local dancers invaded the room and got us all to participate to the local Magunatip dance, or bamboo stick dance.   We all laughed a lot as we got our ankles caught between the bamboos and worked up an appetite for the delicious buffet which was served afterwards. Finally, the graduation ceremony started, each of us coming to collect our Course Director diploma from the amazing PADI team. I could feel the support of the whole room and of my team as I collected my reward and the joy of having achieved a big step in my career as a scuba dive professional.

 

Now it is time to put all the lessons into practice and start a new journey as I start teaching the IDCs in Oceans 5 Dive Center, Gili Air, Indonesia, and guess what? I am super excited!!
Are you thinking of becoming a dive professional and live on a tropical island? For more information in English, French, Spanish or Dutch, please contact me on info@oceans5dive.com and visit www.oceans5dive.com

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How is Dimitris PADI IDC going?

Posted on April 3, 2016 by oceans5dive

Mijn indruk van Oceans 5 en de PADI IDC

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Toe ik aankwam op het eiland had geen idee wat ik kon verwachten. Oceans 5 is een prachtig resort met een professionele duikschool. Ik werd hartelijk ontvangen wanneer ik mij aanmelde voor de IDC. De lessen zijn super en leerlijk.

Onze course director, Joeri Van Hal is zeer hulpzame en directe persoon, die zijn tijd in zijn studenten steekt om er het beste uit te halen. Wat hem een zeer bekwaam leerkracht maakt.

In het begin had ik mijn twijfels of instructor zijn wel iets voor mij was. Maar nu halverwege voel ik mij goed en ook meer zelfvertrouwen dat ik de IE zal aankunnen. Mededankzij mijn medestudenten; Dayana and Juan. En onze staff instructor Tin. En uiteraard door Joeri.

Ik hoop op een goed einde voor ons allemaal, maar hoe het er nu uit ziet, moeten we ons daar niet te veel over zorgen maken. Joeri stoomt ons goed klaar voor de IE.

We can do this! Bedankt Oceans 5 en Joeri!

Dimitri Maes

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Why should we dive with Nitrox?

Posted on April 2, 2016 by oceans5dive

Enriched Air Nitrox specialty and instructor specialty courses at Oceans 5 Dive Resort.

 

Oceans 5 offers both Enriched Air Nitrox (EANX) specialty and instructor specialty courses

 

 

 

 

What is EANX?

 

EANX or better known simply as Nitrox is a gasmix with a higher oxygen concentration compared to air. In the diving industry we say that air consists of 21% oxygen and 79% nitrogen. A Nitrox gasmix would be any mix with a concentration of oxygen higher than 21%.

 nitrox course at dive resort oceans 5

 

Why diving on EANX?

 

The time divers can spend at the bottom depends on a few variables:

The first one is gasconsumption. Unfortunately Nitrox doesn’t change anything about our breathing. The gasconsumption, compared to air, will be exactly the same, keeping environmental changes in mind.

nitrox course at dive resort oceans 5 gili air in indonesia.jpg

The second variable is nitrogen intake. Divers are limited in bottomtime depending on the amount of nitrogen in the body. By means of tables and dive computers, dives can be planned so that divers stay within the set limits of their maximum nitrogen intake.

nitrox courses in indonesia.jpg

 

Because of the higher oxygen concentration in a Nitrox mix, naturally the concentration of nitrogen is lower compared to air. A lower concentration of nitrogen means that divers take less nitrogen in during their dives, which results in the ability to plan longer bottom times while staying within limits. As divers, don’t we all want to stay as long as possible underwater? Well, here you have the number one reason why divers should dive on nitrox!

 

 

 

 

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The pre dive safety check

Posted on February 17, 2016 by oceans5dive

How did you learn the pre dive safety check?

One of the first things we teach in the Open Water Course is to check that all the equipment is ready and in working order to ensure a safe and comfortable dive. We teach it using the acronym BWRAF or Begin With Review And Friends.
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There are some funny ways to remember this, and many different phrases have emerged around the world, such as
B W R A F
Bruce Willis Rules/Ruins All/Action Films
Breakfast With Rice And Fish
British/Belgium Women Really Are Fantastic
Blond/Brunette Women Really Are Fun
Because We Really Aren’t Fish
Bangkok Women Really Are Fellows/Fake
Being Wary Reduces All Failure
Before we will go in the water we will always start with our pre dive safety check. Make it as a common habit. Remember diving is all about safety, you as a diver doesn’t want to have any failure underwater. And to avoid most of the underwater failures we check all our equipment before we go in the water.
So let’s recap:
B – BCD:  Check it inflates, deflates, oral inflates and check the dump valves delicately
W – Weights: Check you have them, the right amount.  If on a weight belt, check it is right hand release and the weights are evenly distributed.
R – Releases:  Check all the releases are done up and safely clipped, shoulder straps, front straps, tank strap(s) and buckle
A – Air – Take 2 deep breaths from both regulators (the main and the alternate air source) whilst looking at the pressure gauge needle.  Make sure the needle doesn’t move.  Check how much air you have.
F – Final OK: Check fins, mask, computer, any other equipment needed for the dive, Check you are fit and fine for the dive.
Due to the configuration of our boats, we, at Oceans5 Dive Resort, Gili Air, Indonesia teach our students to do the pre-dive safety check on themselves.  It can also be performed from a buddy to another.
Also  if you are certified as diver, take your time to do a pre dive safety check.Remember it is your dive, not the dive of the guide. And you like to be safe underwater?
How did you learn it and what phrase can you come up with?
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Road to the PADI CDTC

Posted on February 1, 2016 by oceans5dive

The road to the PADI CDTC

written by Giny Pinto, PADI Master Instructor at Dive Resort Oceans 5 Gili Air

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About a year ago, the exciting road of the CDTC or PADI Course Director Training Course started for me when I took the PADI IDC Staff Instructor course with Sander Buis at Oceans 5 Dive Resort, Gili Air, Indonesia.

The course offered the challenges I needed after so many years of teaching recreational diving. It taught me to approach the teachings of diving from a different angle, teaching people who already have a professional understanding of this activity. Being part of the team during a whole IDC or Instructor Decelopment Course, I re-learnt to do various presentations 12 years after my own IDC and how to evaluate the candidates.

I have the chance to work at Oceans 5 Dive Resort on Gili Air, a tropical island close to Lombok in Indonesia, where we offer one IDC per month. This gave me the opportunity to assist and practice evaluating the students as well as giving some IDC presentations to the IDC candidates during each course. It also gave me the opportunity to experience different styles of teachings by assisting 3 different PADI Course Directors (Sander Buis, Joeri Van Hal and Assar Manuswin).

Some of the most rewarding moments, are the time candidates pass their Instructor Exam. The joy of all the hard work is so good to see on their faces!!

After assisting 4 IDC’s in Dive Resort Oceans 5, I applied for the PADI Master Instructor, which was easily accepted with all the experience and exposure to the professional diving I have had in the last 13 years.

The end of November 2015 was a key date for me and more then 100 other applicants to the Malaysian PADI Course Director Training Course for March 2016: the final application had to be sent in! After an informative chat with Colin Melrose, Manager, Instructor Development at PADI in July, I started collecting all the necessary information and working on my Action Plan which reflects the marketing route for me to follow in the next few years. I was helped along the way by my mentor Sander Buis and PADI Regional Manager Paul Tanner. I handed everything in on time and the patience game was on until 15th January. I will remember this day for the rest of my life! Early in the morning I received an email from PADI, my heart was pounding, reading the line announcing that I got accepted for the PADI CDTC, that will change my professionaldiving career!!!

I am so ready and I really look forward to the coming challenges ahead!

If you like to know more about PADI Instructor Courses at Dive Resort Oceans 5 Gili Air, write us an email: info@oceans5dive.com or visit our website: www.indonesia-IDC.com

 

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