PADI Course Director at Blue Marlin Dive - Indonesia, Gili Air & Komodo
The importance of the steps in the PADI Skill Circuit and how to prepare your demonstration in the best possible way.
07.04.2023 By Matt
Why are the steps so important? Either you are taking your PADI Divemaster Course or your PADI Instructor Development Course, you will have to reach a good level in demonstrating the 24 Skills of the PADI Skill circuit. The reason is pretty obvious, you want to be able to demonstrate it in the best possible
New PADI Instructor,
directly from India, Animish Limaye!
28.08.2017 By Matt
The first IDC in the new Blue Marlin Dive IDC Dive Resort in Gili Air has just finished and everything went on very well. Animish Limaye passed his Instruction Examination and he is now enjoying the island for a few days while waiting for his teaching status to be activated by PADI. Over a lunch
11 Common questions about the
PADI Instructor Development Course at Blue Marlin Dive
22.07.2017 By Matt
Thank you Alex for the interview. (Credit: Alex Shlyakhov – Dai Love) Blue Marlin Komodo and Blue Marlin Gili Air now host an IDC program taught by PADI Course Director and seasoned diver Matt Fieschi at both locations alternately. Recently, we decided to sit down with Matt in the tranquil Gili islands to get answers
The first PADI Instructor certified at
Blue Marlin Komodo with PADI Course Director Matt Fieschi
21.05.2017 By Matt
Fabian Damerow is the first PADI Instructor certified at Blue Marlin Komodo! It’s with great pleasure that Blue Marlin Dive’s IDC in Indonesia has accomplished its first IDC with a candidate-passing rate of 100% (…yes, one candidate, but 1 out of 1 is still 100%!). Fabian Damerow was focused and studied hard to be ready for the
Past, present and future of a
PADI Course Director
10.03.2017 By Matt
Ten years of diving, in a twinkling of an eye Here I am, on my way back to Gili Air, Indonesia, from my Course Director Training Course just finished in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. I look back in time and think about all the great moments in the last 10 years; I smile when I think