Year one Review of RfA Instructor Development

Rumble fish Adventure officially recognized as a PADI 5* IDC on 17th August 2010. As our first full year anniversary is approaching, we looked back at the successes of our interns and candidates who came to train with RfA at our new facility, and with the help of our partners at Scuba Junkie, Malaysia and Barefoot Scuba, India.

Recognizing our Candidates Success

We measure our successes on what our candidates do after their course, not on a passing percentage. Similar to the previous 5 years, many of Course Director Thien's former candidates can still be found working in the dive industry throughout Asia and the Americas. RfA graduates are found in the Maldives, Cambodia, the Philippines, California, Florida, the Red Sea, and beyond. Some are now PADI Course Directors. Many others are now owners of their dive businesses, and managers of dive centers and liveaboards.

Where are our 2010-2011 graduates today? We succeed when our candidates succeed. So today, you can find almost all of our past year graduates teaching throughout Asia Pacific. Our recent graduated instructors and divemasters can be found at:

• Mermaids Liveaboard in Komodo and Bali, Indonesia (Jose, October 2010)
• Sipadan/Mabul, Scuba Junkie, Malaysia (Kay, Paul, Rowan, Ella & Kat, November 2010)
• Barefoot Scuba, Andaman Islands, India (Gaurav, November 2010)
• Gil Meno, Indonesia (Sandra, November 2010)
• Sunny Cove, Singapore (Gary and David, December 2010)
• Phukest.com, Talinn, Estonia (Martin, December 2010)
• Blue Coral Diving, Hoi An, Viet Nam (Patrick, February 2011)
• Rumble fish Adventure, Phuket, Thailand (Chris, February 2011)
• Weekend instructor, Melbourne, Australia (Travis, February 2011)
• Sipadan/Mabul, Scuba Junkie, Malaysia (Sven, Jo, Monica & Richie, February 2011)
• Khao Lak Scuba Adventure, Khao Lak, Thailand (Dave, March 2011)
• Scuba Jam, Bangkok, Thailand (Asa, April 2011)
• Orca Dive Club, Mumbai, India (Denzil, May 2011)
• World Wide Dive & Sail, Manado, Indonesia (Kassandra, July 2011)

'Stand out in the Crowded' Businesses of Diving

Why divers chose RfA for their PADI Pro training? It's probably because of our fair and honest business philosophy. They can count on us to do the right things for the clients and the environment, and to live by these policies:

• We practice and support 'fair pricing practices.' We highly encourage all of our guests to shop our competitors.
• We expect individual effort and creativeness during training under challenging real world conditions.
• We are lovers of the sea, an 'ECO company' and encouraged our candidates to be as 'green a diver' as they can be.
• Our Course Directors and Instructors are divers, not classroom lecturers! So our candidates actually learn to teach and supervise in the ocean, under real life dive conditions, not from power point presentation!
• We don't work for free, so therefore our candidates are expected to be the same. There's no FREE education. So, don't expect to work for free in exchange for experience from us. If you teach for us, you get compensated!
• Our divers safety and fun are our main priorities!
• We have a "Price Match Guarantee," do let us know if you receive the same written offer at a lower price, we'll match it.
• And finally, we educate our candidates 'the business of diving' in 'a real business', ours! Because we started where they were, as active dive instructors.

Final words

Hearty Congratulations to RfA 2010 and 2011 graduates. Thank you for the opportunities to meet and learn from you as much as you might have learned from us. We look forward to support all of our past candidates in anyway we can with their passion, and goals. Remember to keep diving green!

From Similans to Malapascua to Mabul

What a great first 6 months of 2011 for us here at Rumble fish Adventure!

RfA celebrated the start of our 10th year in diving with 3 weeks of diving, covering 3 countries. Aboard our chartered yatch, MV Scuba Explorer, we welcome back our friends and colleagues from around the globe to help us 'dive' into our next decade in style.

Our second leg brought us to Malapascua, the Philippines, diving with our friends at Evolution. as this was my first dive trip into this great reef corner, we achieved our objective in seeing the graceful Thresher shark at Monad Shoal. The house Reef just outside of the dive shop proved to be great 'shooting ground' for our photographers, capturing fantastic macro species from seahorses, lobsters, shrimps and rarest of nudibranches.

Finally, we stopped into Semporna for a few last dives with our friends at Scuba Junkie. Mabul didn't fail to impress with wonderful dives at the Mabul's Artificial Reef, Kapalai House Reef, and Lobsters Wall.

Click here for some photos of the dives.

Thank you to our colleagues at Gillmanoids Kuala Lumpur, our friends from the Marriott USA Kristina, Clae, Andrea, Kody, Wes, our RfA Club members Dan, Renee, Dave and our former IDC candidates Ron, Johnathan and Patrick for coming and making the celebration a memorable experience.