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

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

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

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

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