Big applause for our biggest ITC in Australia!!

Check out the new and good looking generation of SSI dive Instructors just certified in Cairns!
Scubabo, with the collaboration of Hostel Reef Trips, organised the biggest ITC ever carried out in Australia, and it turned out to be a great success! 

Nikki, Justin, Anna, Matty & Jackson just completed their 3 months dive master training before on our over night boat. 
Giving certified divers dive briefings, guiding certified divers, preparing the dive sessions which includes filling scuba tanks and writing dive logs..all these is part of the program. 

The final step to become a assistant Instructor is to assist a full Open Water Course with our high qualified dive Instructors. Assisting scuba skills update program and at the end an In-water teaching evaluation which means learn how to brief and teach unexperienced students who never dived before and get them ready and excited for these great adventure. 
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All 5 of them have done very well and got nominated for our first SSI Instructor course in Cairns! 
Congratulations guys! 

​The course consisted in 10 academic and pool training days course and ended up in beautiful Fitzroy Island for the open water evaluation. The 9 participants chosen were employees from Scubabo Underwater photography Art and Hostel Reef Trips, who had previously completed their Dive Master Traineeship with either companies. 

After a stressful too weeks, big smile on all our candidates faces! No more preparing presentations, online studying or skills practicing because everyone has passed the course! Wuuuup wuuup
Speedboat back from Fitzroy to our base in Cairns! Already a couple of drinks in and ready for a big night out in town!!

Big thanks to these 3 SSI legends! Joel (Scubabo), Macca (Hostel Reef Trips) and Paul (SSI certifier) who allowed me to follow the course and the final IE on Fitzroy Island! 

My next step is gonna be the Instructor Trainer course in May 2018! 

Do you want to live and work in paradise like our latest SSI diving instructors? No problem, contact me here to get more details! 

I would like to introduce you to Reto, who decided to sign up for his Open Water Course on our live aboard Reef Encounter. Only after 3 days and 2 nights, including 8 day dives and a final exam,  Reto was an Open Water diver!
The course started with his first open water dive in our beautiful reef location Norman Playgrounds. 
Usually the first confined session is the hardest,  performing mask and regulator removal under water is not an easy task but guess what? Reto smashed it!  So we were able to continue  the session as a fun 30 minutes dive!

Watch out for our new SSI assistant Instructor Justin! Well done mate, 3 month of dive master training inlcuding your training for your assistant instructor . Good job my friend, continuously gaining your diving experience and working hard on the boat day in day out. 
Always keen to learn something new and ready for new challenges.
A few weeks to go until you start your instructor course, thank god we had to do the in- water teaching evaluation  again to make sure you're well prepared for it! 
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Thanks a lot mate, it was always a pleasure to work with you! Best luck for your Instructor course next week!

Send me your details if you want more information about our dive professional training program on the Great Barrier Reef!