Mermaids Dive Center a PADI 5 Star CDC (Career Development Center) Thailand conducts 11 PADI IDC (Instructor Development Courses) times annually from our location in Jomtien, Pattaya, Thailand. Mermaids was the first 5 Star CDC Dive Center on the Eastern seaboard to have achieved this prestigious award for excellence in professional level diver training.
Coupled with this our Educations Manager and Course Director, Russell Martin is a two times Platinum Director being one of only 100 globally. Our Second Course Director Desi Doggart is also a Platinum Course Director.
Mermaids has this year improved all our facilities as well as a brand new, computerized classroom, our own Hotel for our Intern Candidates, a shop on Beach Road (under reconstruction now), as well as Bangkok, so that our Interns can see how a business can be run, from different angles as well as get a broader perspective in different operations. Please visit our diving internship web site for more information about internship packages we offer
We are located within easy sailing distance of 5 major steel shipwrecks, the Hardeep, the HTMS Khram and HTMS Kut, Mathapon and the Petchburi Bremen, as well as numerous coral sites. The diving here is consistent all year round, with 5-15 meters visibility. It is an ideal place for PADI IDC training.
All of our Internship programs are built with care and attention to your needs as a professional, as we want you to go out and join those who finished before you, in finding the best job possible, as a Dive Master or Dive Instructor.
Please take a look at different Diving Internship packages we offer:
- PADI Master Scuba Diver (MSD) Internship Mermaids internship scuba diving programs cater for all budding scuba divers. Our dive facilities are always in demand for the diver that wishes to follow a career in scuba diving, whether this is as a dive master or an instructor. There are other potential interns that are either not old enough to turn dive pro ...
- PADI Divemaster Internship Program DM interns learn to scuba dive and become a PADI professional Divemaster within our intensive 4 month diving internship program. (The program can be shortened if you require). This course is held in Pattaya (Jomtien), Chonburi, Thailand. Once qualified as a dive master you will be eligible to assist instructors with student training, conduct open ocean ...
- PADI IDC Package for Certified Divemasters If you are a Divemaster and want to become a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor, this package is for you. IDC and Instructor Examination held at our operations center in Pattaya (Jomtien), Chonburi, Thailand. This is the first professional “internationally recognized” rating on the PADI ladder but can be used as a passport to work in ...
- PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor Package Are you tired of an ordinary 9-5 job, the “rat-race”? Is life getting too dull for you? If you’re a scuba diver, you obviously already have a passion for the adventurous lifestyle – if you’re not, you must be looking to change and start living life to the fullest. PADI scuba dive instructors spend their work days ...
- PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) Internship Package PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) Internships Mermaid’s CDC Dive Center Pattaya, was operated since the late 80′s to 2006 by the late Stephen Blumenthal – once the worlds’ youngest PADI Course Director. Steve knew the importance of continued education to be successful. With an IDC (Instructor Development Course) and IE (instructor Examination) monthly it is ...
- Additions to Mermaids Silver Packages If you choose to do the Silver Package, but want to add on more courses, choose from any of the follow below: Wreck/Deep/Search & Recovery Specialties 10,200 baht per course Boat/Drift/Night/PPB/Fish ID/Naturalist Specialties 6,200 baht per course Navigation Specialty 7,800 baht per course EANX (Enriched Air Diver) Specialty 9,953 baht DPV (Underwater Scooter) Specialty 7,000 baht Digital Underwater Photography Specialty 6,200 baht Emergency Oxygen Provider Specialty 6,200 baht Full Face ...
All of the professional scuba diving traineeships offered result in a dive job placement service if required. We have been placing freshly trained dive professionals into scuba diving careers very successfully since the programs began.
Our professional diver training has increasingly become renowned for being thorough, unique and dedicated to those that are serious about a scuba diving career. We have interns working in Australia, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Honduras, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bali (Indonesia all over also), Spain, Mexico, Ireland, Mainland US, Grand Cayman, Turks and Caicos, Malaysia and many other countries.
Our dive training facilities are comprehensive and hence we have many dive professionals from other dive stores and shops train with us and hence there is a lot of dive networking to be done. Many dive trainees have dive jobs or at least interviews lined up for them before they graduate from the divemaster or diving instructor training programs.
