Elite Platinum Course Director Holly Macleod PADI IDC Indonesia – Gili Islands

A big congratulations to multi award winning Platinum PADI Course Director Holly Macleod for all of her achievements in the Gili Islands in 2015. As well as the multiple awards already received such as “The Platinum Course Director” Award, the “Commitment to Instructor Development” Award and the “PADI Career Development Center” Status Award our PADI Course Director has also received the “PADI Elite 300 Instructor” Award.

What does this mean in the Gili Islands for the PADI IDC Indonesia?

The PADI Elite Instructor award program was introduced in 2014 to recognize the most active Instructors working within the dive industry today. The award is given to PADI Instructors and above based on the amount of divers you certify within a year. Our Platinum PADI Course Director certified more than 300 Instructor over the course of 2014 and in recognition was awarded the “Elite 300” award.

The PADI Instructor Development Course (IDC) is conducted each and every month at Trawangan Dive; the first ever established PADI 5 Star IDC Career Development Center (CDC) in the Gili Islands. Today the dive center remains the only Career Development Center on Gili Trawangan and boasts dedicated Instructor training facilities including classroom, swimming pool and a dedicated boat.

As well as working towards getting the best scores possible in the Instructor Examination and preparing for a life and career in the dive industry, students will benefit from the “real life” experience of our Course Director who has worked within the industry for approximately 12 years and travelled around the world teaching the various PADI programs. Candidates can expect to gain first-hand knowledge of the industry and an insight to what it is like working within particular job roles and how their work system, responsibilities or schedule can be different by working within specific regions of the world.

If you are thinking about becoming a scuba diving Instructor there is no better place to train. The course is offered every single month at Trawangan Dive; world class premier PADI 5 Star IDC Career Development Center (CDC) in the Gili Islands Indonesia. The entire program start to finish is conducted by highly experienced Elite Platinum PADI Course Director Holly Macleod who has an international reputation for providing a quality educational experience and developing her candidates in a way that not only gains them extremely high scores on the PADI Instructor Examination (I.E) but give them the confidence to go and develop a rewarding and challenging career “teaching the world to dive”.

If your looking to find out more about the program than our Original PADI IDC Indonesia Facebook Page offers all the information about what has been going on during each course for the past few years including photos, updates etc.; and it is a great way to see how past candidates got on and where they are now. Another great way to check out the course is to watch the promotionalPADI IDC Indonesia video, which can also be found on our YouTube channel.

If you wish to go further and find out more about start dates, schedules, costs etc, or to discuss your current level of training and future aspirations our Course Director Holly can be contacted directly on idc@trawangandive.com

PADI IDC Gili Islands | Komodo Diving | Indonesia

Recently our PADI IDC team traveled from the Gili Islands to Labuan Bajo for a diving excursion. The Gili Islands offer some great dive sites and is a fantastic place to take a dive course, but Komodo National Park offers everything

Of course everybody wants to see Manta Ray and Indonesia has no shortage of these magnificent creatures. Manta Rays can be found in abundance in Komodo National Park. But it’s not just Manta Rays; a variety sharks, tuna, barracuda, sweetlips and sometimes other not so common species can be found swimming around alongside the rays. As well as the larger species passing by, there is an abundance of reef dwellers living amongst pristine coral reefs. Amongst the coral reef the usual suspects can be found including octopus, cuttlefish, blue spotted rays, ribbon eels, moray eels, sweetlips, grouper, mantis shrimp and anemone fish.

As well as the larger species and reef inhabitants the are also many macro sites offering some amazing creatures including frogfish, flatworms, a huge variety of pipefish, multiple species of nudibranchs, many types of crab and leaf fish.

In general Komodo National Park offers some of the best diving conditions available. Amongst the strong turbulent currents you will find nutrient rich pristine coral reef formations which attract a huge array of marine life. It is usually suggested that divers are at least an Advanced level certification with some diving experience.

So Komodo is the perfect place to dive, whereas the Gili Islands are the perfect place to take dive training of all levels from entry level to instructor. The PADI IDCIndonesia program offers the very best of PADI Instructor level training available. To see last years graduates check out the PADI IDC Gili Islands Slideshow.

For more information on professional dive training or Komodo diving exvursions contact our GoProteam.