Taking the PADI Open Water course at the Great Barrier Reef outside Townsville in Queensland, really opened up my mind to Scuba Diving, before that, I thought it was something: very expensive, taking very long time to learn and just done in cold waters with zero visibility – but I was wrong, very wrong.
Torben diving with students on Koh Tao, during a PADI Advanced Open Water course.
I then spent some holidays taking the next PADI levels, as a Advanced Open Water diver and in 2003 it brought me to the small island of Koh Tao in the gulf of Thailand, where I did my PADI Rescue Diver course, at the then pretty small resort of Crystal Dive.
Well I don’t have to mention, that one thing led to another, and now I am here today in 2009, having tough scuba diving under the PADI organization and at Crystal Dive Resort, for the last 4 years, when I’m not spending my time in St. Anton, Austria doing all the backcountry guiding.
At the moment I’m holding the instructor level of PADI IDC Staff Instructor, but hoping to being able to apply for the next level as a Master Instructor toward the end of 2009. This means that I’m not only teaches all levels of recreational scuba diving, including a wide variety of specialty courses, but also all the professional levels from Divemaster, over Assistant Instructor up to assisting on the Instructor courses.
As a special and noteworthy thing, I’m teaching in Danish, German and English, if you’re from Sweden or Norway doesn’t make much of a difference either.
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