{"id":590,"date":"2019-07-20T16:49:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T16:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idckohtao.com\/padi-womens-dive-day-2019-with-platinum-course-director-andrea-warren\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T04:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T04:37:06","slug":"padi-womens-dive-day-2019-with-platinum-course-director-andrea-warren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idckohtao.com\/fr\/blog\/padi-womens-dive-day-2019-with-platinum-course-director-andrea-warren\/","title":{"rendered":"PADI Women’s Dive Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Andrea. I am a PADI Course Director on a small tropical island called Koh Tao in the Gulf of Thailand.<\/p>\n

For those of you who do not know what that is, one of my main roles is to teach PADI Divemasters<\/a> how to become Open Water Scuba Instructors.<\/p>\n

Every month I conduct what is called an Instructor Development Course, otherwise referred to as an IDC<\/a>. The reason I chose this career path was to have the opportunity to spend more time with my students and to be a part of their professional development.<\/p>\n

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What I did before I trained to become a PADI Course Director<\/h3>\n

Before I was a Course Director, I used to teach dance. I spent many years with the same students. This allowed me to watch them grow and fine tune their skills over time. I enjoy watching my candidates evolve into instructors and seeing how they do once they are immersed in the industry.<\/p>\n

I know what it is like when you are first starting out. It is important to have a mentor that can help guide you through each transition and new experiences.<\/p>\n

When I was first introduced to the underwater world, I was immediately intrigued. Having grown up in Canada, I had not yet been exposed to the diving industry or the idea that you could work as a Scuba Diver.<\/p>\n

I immediately became very curious about how other divers got involved with scuba diving and how they became professionals.<\/p>\n