THAILAND - PHUKET IDC IN ENGLISH - PADI COURSE DIRECTOR

WHO IS - ALAIN BARRAT?

I’m also called «Cacao» and I’m born in Couvet, in the French part of Switzerland. I began diving at the age of eight during my holiday and the first time, I was searching for my sense of direction, lying down on my back to the floor of a swimming pool since the tank, made with steel, was considerably higher and heavier than I was. My parents couldn’t imagine at this time that I was, fortunately since, going to learn how to use a compass and almost never leave this element here in Thailand. I recently logged my 13'313 dives.

“A Swiss, French, scuba diving instructor and in Phuket, what a joke! they don't have any sea!” And for Alinghi was it another one?

I became PADI Instructor in 1998 and since have trained over 800 divers at non professional level. I only became PADI Course Director in 2005 however I have conducted many successful IDCs here in Thailand as Senior IDC Staff. I have been involved since 2001, up to today, in the training of over 725 PADI professionals at all levels in Phuket.

I had the chance to dive in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Atlantic, in the Caribbean, the Pacific and of course in our good, old Neuchâtel Lake. During the last ten years I dived extensively throughout the Andaman Sea as instructor, speaking french and english, during liveaboards and daytrips here in Phuket. I have been involved in the Instructional development and management of a 5-Stars IDC centre for four years, prior to focus in 2002, on the Instructor Development Courses (IDC). This has given him a large network of dive centres and liveaboards, useful for those of you that will be looking for a job after the IE here in Thailand.

I will also give you considerable information, useful, to succeed in your career and new lifestyle as a scuba diving Instructor. Why? Because I had the chance to follow a training, to work as Tender and Operator in hyperbaric chamber, since 2001, and I will give you the chance to see how this work. I will, in the near future, follow a DMT Diving Medical Technician course, which is going to allow me to teach another speciality for people who are more interested in Decompression Sickness and chambers. I work very closely with a TEC diving centre and we run every months different courses.

I speak and teache as well in English as in French and I’m one of the only Course Directors in Thailand that still teaches all different levels of training. I speak as well a bit of German, Italian, Spanish and Thai in order to open doors to other persons and who knows…

My running talents, for creativity and instruction in scuba diving here in Phuket, made it possible for me to be known by many Divemasters and Instructors from all over the world from whom I received many recommendations.

WHY ALAIN'S PASSION IS TEACHING DIVING

Because as a Scuba Instructor you have the opportunity to see:

• Fear changing into courage...
• Faint-hearted converted into accomplishment...
• Timidity transformed into confidence...
• Anticipation turned into passion...

And also because as a Scuba Instructor you can:

• Open mind and hearts to the hidden beauty of nature's creation and our obligation to protect it...
• Give self esteem to another person...
• Teach the value of character and integrity...
• Transform another human being and change their life for the better and forever...