Yes, we have telephone too: just dial this numbers: From the outside of Thailand: (66) 77 456635 or 456402-3 From the outside of Surat Thani: 077 456635 or 456402-3 From the inside of Surat Thani: 456635 or 456402-3 Fax Number: 077 456 402

This is the Site of Carabao Diving School, located in Chalok Ban Kao on the island of Koh Tao in the Gulf of Thailand.Carabao Dive School is a SSI Instructor Training Facility and a PADI Dive Center in the middle of over 20 fantastic dive spots. One of the most amazing places to dive in Asia. Come an swim with the Whale Shark or see beautiful corals. I bet, this will amaze you.

Beside the dive school Carabao also has a Internet cafe, money change facilities, booking office and a Thai Western restaurant where in the evenings you can see the latest movies on our big screen TV.

We offer various services at our website and lots of information about Koh Tao itself. Don't miss the picture gallery or the video section. Of cause we offer you some booking options, price information and information about the courses. You can watch this page in different languages, powered by Babel fish, AltaVista, but don't blame us for the, sometime very funny, translation.

We invite you to learn more about diving on Koh Tao.

Courses

Carabao is a PADI Dive Centre (#16908) and SSI Instructor Training Facility(#9268). We offer both PADI and SSI courses to give our customers the freedom of choice .A team of multi-lingual instructors (covering English, French, German, Spanish,Dutch and Czech) offer you all PADI and SSI courses from beginner level (Open Water) to dive professional( PADI Divemaster and Assistant Instructor or SSI Dive Control Specialist and Instructor). Besides, our staff are qualified to offer you several specialties such as Nitrox Diver, Deep Diver, Navigation Diver, Night Diver etc. All courses up to Rescue Diver include discounted accommodation for the duration of the course.

Open Water Diver

The Open Water Diver course, the most popular dive program in the world! This is your ticket to a lifetime of intense adventure of the underwater world.

Throughout the course, you’ll learn fundamentals of scuba diving, including dive equipment and techniques. You will also earn an Open Water Diver certification that is recognized worldwide. You earn this rating by completing five pool dives and knowledge development sessions and by making four open water (ocean or lake) dives.

Virtually anyone who is in good health, reasonably fit, and comfortable in the water can earn an Open Water Diver certification. At some point in the course, your Instructor will ask you to demonstrate the ability to swim 200 meters/yards without swim aids or 300 meters/yards with mask, fins and snorkel and complete a bit of paperwork, to get you on your way. If you are between 10 and 14 or have a child between these ages, there is a Junior Open Water Diver program available.

PADI Advanced Open Water Diver/ SSI Advanced Adventurer

If you're at least 12 years or older and an Open Water Diver or Junior Open Water Diver, then you're ready for the Adventures In Diving program.

The Adventures In Diving program offers two certification options. Complete any three Adventure Dives to earn the Adventure Diver rating. Complete the Deep and Underwater Navigation Adventure Dives and three additional Adventure Dives (five total) and earn an Advanced Open Water Diver certification. Divers between the ages of 12-14 can earn a Junior Advanced Open Water Diver rating. The maximum recommended depth for adventure dive is 30 meters/100 feet.

Adventure Divers and Advanced Open Water Divers (15 years of age and older) may participate in Wreck and Deep Diver Specialties. Advanced Open Water Diver or Junior Advanced Open Water Diver certification lets you continue on to the Rescue Diver or Junior Rescue Diver course. And, provided you meet minimum age requirements for individual courses, you may take Specialties such as Cavern Diver (18 years), Semi closed Re breather-Dolphin/Atlantis/Ray (15 years), and Search and Recovery (12 years).

What's more, Adventure Dives also count towards Specialty Diver certifications. For example, if you like night diving and want to earn your Night Diver rating, your Night Adventure Dive counts as the first dive of the specialty.

So what does Adventures In Diving offer you? New experiences, new skills, lots of diving and thrilling adventures. Stop by your local Dive Centre or Resort for more information on Adventures In Diving program and Adventures In Diving materials.

PADI Rescue Diver/ SSI Stress and Rescue

The Rescue Diver program develops your knowledge and skills so you can effectively perform diver assists and rescues, manage diving accident situations and render first aid. The program is an important step in expanding your knowledge and experience as a diver. Rescue Diver (or equivalent) certification is also a prerequisite for all leadership programs.

To get into the Rescue Diver program, you’ll need to be certified as an Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent) and must be at least 15 years old. The Junior Rescue Diver program is available if you’re between the ages of 12 and 14 and hold a Junior Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent) rating.

You’ll also need to have successfully completed the Emergency First Responder? program or a sanctioned program in CPR within the past 24 months. The Rescue Diver program covers:

• self-rescue and diver stress
  
• diving first aid
  
• emergency management and equipment considerations
  
• swimming and non swimming assists
  
• panicked diver response
  
• underwater problems
  
• missing diver procedures
  
• surfacing the unconscious diver
  
• in-water artificial respiration
  
• egress (exits)
  
• first aid procedures for pressure related accidents
  
• dive accident scenarios.

Master Diver

Reach for the top of your sport -- the diver level unrivalled in the recreational ranks: Master Scuba Diver. This certification denotes that you've reached the highest recreational diver level in the System of diver education.

To put yourself on top and reach the Master Scuba Diver level you need to be at least 15 years of age and have completed:

• Open Water Diver or have a qualifying certification from another training organization.
• Advanced Open Water Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organization.
• Rescue Diver, or have a qualifying certification from another training organization.
• 50 logged dives.
• Five Specialty certifications.

The Master Scuba Diver rating denotes superior achievement and proficiency in dive skills, experience and underwater activities. Isn’t that what you’re all about?

PADI DiveMaster / SSI Dive Control Specialist

This is you first step on the dive professional ladder. For those who decide that scuba diving can be more than a recreational endeavor and are intrested in making diving part of your carree acquiring the PADI Divemaster or SSI Dive Control Speialist is an essential step in the Processs. If there is a common characteristic of what a Divemaster/ Dive Control Specialist is , responsibility is the most accurate term. No singel word so adequately defines what a Divemaster/ Dive Control Specialist is and how you are perceived. You will be responsibie for people, planning, orientation and at some tiime responsible for nearly every aspect of safe diving. A world of adventure awaits all those who wish to achieve this rating. Being albe to work world wide doing somthing you enjoy.

To start this progame you will need to be a certified as an Advanced Open Water Diver (or equivalent), Resuce Diver (or equivalent) have current CPR and First Aid training in the last 24 months and must be at least 18 years old. This Progame covers:

• The role and Characteristics of a Dive Leader
  
• Group Management
  
• Rescue Skills
  
• Diving Physics
  
• Diving Physiology
  
• Decompression Theory
  
• Equipment
  
• The Aquatic Environment
  
• Leading Special Dives
  
• Programs you can conduct as a Dive Leader
  
• Your Diving Career.
  

The SSI Dive Control Specialist also inculdes the Assitant Instructor rating which other agency run as separte programs.and looks at Teaching in the accademic presations, teaching in confinde water and teaching in open water.

After completing the course you will be able to work on live-aboards dive boats and at dive resorts, Assist instructors with classes, Lead diver as a dive guide and conduct Scuba Review or Scuba Tune Up progams.

INSTRUCTOR TRAINING COURSES

SSI Training - what ever diver should know
Each of our Dive Leader Training Programs is based on SSI's Diver Diamond methodology, which focuses on the proper knowledge, skills, equipment, and experience required in helping you become a highly qualified instructor.

Proper Knowledge. SSI's Dive Leader Training Programs will help you acquire the knowledge to help new divers become confident and comfortable underwater.

Proper Skills. During SSI's Dive Leader Training, you will learn from an experienced instructor who will teach and mentor you.  Their goal is to make sure you are a comfortable and confident teacher.

Proper Equipment. You will learn the specific equipment requirements for your dive store. This information will help in teaching your students about the importance of owning their own diving equipment, as well as selling them Total Diving Systems.

Proper Experience. Your Instructor Certifier, Kevin, has a wealth of experience from over 10 years in the dive industry to share with you that would take years to learn on your own

Become a valuable employee as an SSI Instructor

Most instructor programs focus only on teaching diving. However, most dive businesses require much more of instructors than merely teaching.

The SSI Instructor Training Course (ITC) prepares you to become an active member of the scuba industry, a successful educator and a valuable dive business employee.

Your training includes:

Why SSI Instructors are More Marketable

Instructor Training Course (ITC)

The SSI Instructor Training Course (ITC) is designed to make you a competent and confident diving instructor; able to conduct academic sessions efficiently, supplementing students' knowledge to maximize retention, and optimize time spent in the water, so you can effectively teach and evaluate your students' skills and abilities.

Proven Success

The best advertising for the SSI ITC is SSI Thailand's 100% success rate with job placements for SSI Instructors who completed an ITC or Instructor Crossover in 2005and 2006.With the high demand for SSI Instructors in the region, we can help with job placements all over S.E. Asia and Australia.

SSI prides itself on developing smart solutions and innovations that promote diving, help scuba professionals succeed, and develop life-long divers.

The ITC Process

The steps in the SSI Instructor training process

1). The ITC is relaxed and fun, but for best results, requires some preparation which you can do by home study - this way you'll be well prepared before the course so you can enjoy yourself during the course. 2). The eight day Instructor Training Course consists of academic sessions, practice presentations, workshops and mini exams, all designed to help you develop your teaching ability in the classroom and water, as well as develop your business knowledge and skills. We want you, not only to pass your IE, but to be comfortable and confident in your abilities to teach afterwards, that's why we will spend as much time with you as you need during your ITC to make sure you're fully prepared for what's ahead as an SSI Open Water Instructor. 3). To help you become a more well-rounded instructor, we'll spend ample time teaching you how to conduct the Stress & Rescue Program me. 4). Once approved in a performance review, candidates can can move on to the Evaluation. Candidates who are not yet ready to be evaluated may act as an Associate Instructor, practicing their teaching under supervision before going on to the Evaluation. 5). During your Instructor Evaluation (IE), you are given a final academic exam and your teaching presentations are graded by an independent Instructor Certifier. Although SSI is big, you'll be pleased to know that our group sizes are small. There will be a maximum of 6 candidates on your IE, ensuring that your Instructor Certifier will not rush you and will be able to evaluate your abilities thoroughly. 6). The evaluation process ends with a final performance review where successful candidates are awarded the rating Open Water Instructor. If candidates are not ready to be OWI's, they may remain Associate Instructors, and continue to practice teaching until re-evaluation. 7). The orientation is conducted at the SSI Dealership. It is designed to make you familiar with a particular Dealership, its policies, facilities and services, and may include in-depth sales training.

Prerequisites

To be eligible for an Instructor Training Course, you must be an SSI Dive Control Specialist or Assistant Instructor from another agency with at least 6 months since your first diving certification, 75 logged dives and and have a current diving medical and training in CPR and first aid (within the last 12 months).

To be certified as an SSI Open Water Instructor, you must have logged at least 100 dives.

ITC's and IE's can be run on demand.

What Can You Teach After your ITC

• Scuba Skills Update
• Resort Diver Program
• Scuba Diver Program
• Open Water Diver  Course
• Advanced Adventurer Program
• Diver Stress & Rescue Course (after completing the Diver Stress & Rescue seminar)
• Scuba Rangers (after completing the Scuba Rangers Instructor training)

SSI Authorized Scuba Schools and the New Instructor.

As a new Instructor, your first few classes can be a little intimidating. When you work for an SSI Authorized Scuba School, you are teaching in an established scuba school with experienced instructors. They can assist with your first few courses and they have a wealth of knowledge to help you progress.

The SSI Instructor Training Course (ITC) is designed to make you a competent and confident diving instructor; able to conduct academic sessions efficiently, supplementing students' knowledge to maximize retention, and optimize time spent in the water, so you can effectively teach and evaluate your students' skills and abilities.

Price

Associate Instructor / Open Water Instructor: 35,000 baht, including Instructor kit and lunch (8 days). Excludes IE fee and SSI membership fee.

Instructor kit contains: Open Water Instructor Manual, ITC Home Preparation Guide, ITC Study Guide, Instructor Dive Log, Instructor Q Cards, OWD Student Training Folder, OWD Exams & Study Guides (multi-lingual), OWD Answer Keys, Stress & Rescue Instructor Manual, Stress & Rescue Instructor Q Cards, Accident Management Slate, Stress & Rescue Student Exam & Study Guides (multi-lingual), Stress & Rescue Answer Keys, Instructor Training Record, Learning & Instruction Methodology, Training & Dealer Standards, Teaching Continuing Education Study Guide.

Specialty Instructor and Advanced Open Water Instructor

Continue your adventure

Add excitement and variety to your teaching with specialties

Teaching specialty courses is a perfect way to continue growing as an SSI Instructor. Specialty courses offer variety and are convenient and easy to learn. Also, you get to teach the activities you love to do.

Instructors may qualify to teach specialty courses by attending one of SSI's seminars, co-teaching with an Advanced Open Water Instructor or by documenting significant experience. Instructors must also purchase the course teaching materials for the particular specialty they wish to teach. And when an Instructor is qualified to teach four or more specialties, they earn the Advanced Open Water Instructor rating.

Continuing Education Ratings

for SSI instructors

Specialty Instructor— Qualified to teach 1 - 3 individual specialty courses.

Advanced Open Water Instructor — Qualified to teach 4 or more specialty courses.

lf you're looking to get experience, expertise and extra income quickly, the Triple-X Advanced Open Water Instructor package is for you.

Expertise

Get at least five SSI Specialty Instructor ratings, including Stress & Rescue.

Choose from:
Deep • Enriched Air Nitrox • Wreck • Search & Recovery • Navigation • Computer • Stress & Rescue
Perfect Buoyancy • Reef Ecology • Waves, Tides & Currents (Drift) • Night & Limited Visibility
Underwater Life (Naturalist) • Photography • Equipment Techniques • Boat • Videography

Experience

Pick up tips from the old hands and gain valuable teaching practice alongside Carabao Diving's highly experienced Instructors and Instructor Certifier and get some precious student certifications to allow you to progress to higher levels of instruction.

Extra income

If you're wondering whether you should do your SSI Instructor Crossover or your PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer, then think no more - crossing over to SSI at the Advanced Open Water Instructor level is faster and cheaper than getting your MSDT through PADI, and it allows you get working faster so you can start teaching your specialties and earning extra cash fast.

You must be at least 18 years old, an SSI Open Water Instructor or SSI Specialty Instructor in active status, have a current diving medical, training in CPR and first aid (in the past 12 months), have logged at least 100 dives (24 in last 12 months), and have certified at least 15 divers (certifications not required for the xXx package).

Prices

Basic: 10,000 baht including SSI membership/upgrade fee and lunch (day 1). Includes Digital Instructor Outlines (extra for paper Outlines).
xXx-internship: 15,000 baht, including SSI membership/upgrade fee, lunch (day 1) and at least 15 student certifications. Includes Digital Specialty Instructor Outlines, Study Guides, Exams & Answer keys (extra for paper

Dive Control Specialist Instructor (DCSI)

Dive Control Specialist Instructor (DCSI)

The ultimate in dive leadership is teaching other Dive Leaders

Once you've become a Dive Leader and discovered the joy that comes from sharing the fun of diving with new divers, you're ready to make the jump from training divers to training Dive Leaders. In doing so, you become a key player in the success of your dive facility and meet one requirement of becoming a Master Instructor.

As an SSI Dive Control Specialist Instructor you will not only share the rewarding experience of becoming an SSI DiveCon, but by training DiveCons you significantly increase your value to the dive training industry. And of course, you greatly increase your own profitability by becoming an SSI Dive Control Specialist Instructor.

Dive Control Specialists contribute significantly to the success of a dive business because they can assist in so many ways. In addition, DiveCons create a ready pool of candidates for Instructor programs. The Dive Control Specialist course can be rewarding, fun and profitable to teach.

Prerequisites

You must be recommended by an SSI Dealer, be at least 18 years old, have logged at least 24 dives in the last 12 months,be at least an Advanced Open Water Instructor or the equivalent, be in an active teaching status, complete a Diver Stress and Rescue course or the equivalent, have a current medical exam for diving signed by a licensed medical practitioner, provide own scuba diving equipment of Instructor type and quality

SSI Instructor Crossover

The SSI Instructor Crossover is aimed at people who are already instructors in other certification agencies and is designed to make you knowledgeable and comfortable with SSI's programs, products & services, so that as SSI Instructors you may confidently teach SSI courses. It is not intended to "make instructors".

Special Offer

Until October 2007, you can crossover to SSI at your current level for just 17,000 Baht, including a full set of Digital instructor materials and Membership until 31 December 2007.

Proven Success

The best advertisement for SSI's Instructor Training Course is SSI Thailand's 100% success rate with job placements all over Thailand, S.E. Asia and Australia for SSI Instructors who completed an ITC or Instructor Crossover since 2005

Recognition

SSI accepts all your existing qualifications and recognizes your experience - this means you can crossover at your current level of Instructor, with all your existing equivalent specialties.

Schedules

Instructor Crossovers are run over one and a half days. To see the schedule of SSI instructor crossovers in 2007.

Prerequisites

You must be an instructor in another diver training agency and have a current diving medical and training in CPR and first aid (in the past 12 months).

Special Price

Only 17,000 baht, including Digital Instructor manual and kit and lunch (day 1). Includes SSI registration membership fee.

Digital Instructor Manual includes: Open Water Instructor Manual digital version, Instructor Orientation Home Preparation Guide, Instructor Dive Log, Instructor Q Cards, OWD Study Guides, Exams & Answer Keys, Student Training Folders, Stress & Rescue Instructor Manual, Accident Management Slate, Stress & Rescue Study Guides, Exams & Answer keys, Instructor Training Record, Learning & Instruction Methodology, Training & Dealer Standards, Teaching Continuing Education Study Guide, Specialty Course Instructor Manuals, Study Guides, Exams & Answer keys, forms, logos, screen savers, and more.

Price

25,000 baht, including Instructor kit paper version and lunch (day 1). Includes SSI membership fee.

Instructor Crossover kit contains: Open Water Instructor Manual paper version, Instructor Orientation Home Preparation Guide, Instructor Dive Log, Instructor Q Cards, OWD Study Guides, Exams & Answer Keys, Student Training Folders, Stress & Rescue Instructor Manual, Accident Management Slate, Stress & Rescue Study Guides, Exams & Answer keys, Instructor Training Record, Learning & Instruction Methodology, Training & Dealer Standards, Teaching Continuing Education Study Guide.

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