Mermaids Dive Center a PADI 5 Star CDC (Career Development Center) Thailand conducts 11 PADI IDC (Instructor Development Courses) times annually from our location in Jomtien, Pattaya, Thailand. Mermaids was the first 5 Star CDC Dive Center on the Eastern seaboard to have achieved this prestigious award for excellence in professional level diver training.
Coupled with this our Educations Manager and Course Director, Russell Martin is a two times Platinum Director being one of only 100 globally. Our Second Course Director Desi Doggart has already met all the criteria for becoming a Platinum Course Director.
Mermaids has this year improved all our facilities as well as a brand new, computerized classroom, our own Hotel for our Intern Candidates, a shop on Beach Road, as well as North Pattaya and Bangkok, so that our Interns can see how a business can be run, from different angles as well as get a broader perspective in different operations.
We are located within easy sailing distance of three major steel shipwrecks, the Hardeep, the HTMS Khram and the Petchburi Bremen, as well as numerous coral sites. The diving here is consistent all year round, with 5-15 meters visibility. It is an ideal place for PADI IDC training.
All of our Internship programs are built with care and attention to your needs as a professional, as we want you to go out and join those who finished before you, in finding the best job possible, as a Dive Master or Dive Instructor.
Please take a look at different Diving Internship packages we offer:
- Master Scuba Diver (MSD) Internship Mermaids internship scuba diving programs cater for all budding scuba divers. Our dive facilities are always in demand for the diver that wishes to follow a career in scuba diving, whether this is as a dive master or an instructor. There are other potenti...
- PADI Divemaster Internship Program DM interns learn to scuba dive and become a PADI professional Divemaster within our intensive 4 month diving internship program. (The program can be shortened if you require). This course is held in Pattaya (Jomtien), Chonburi, Thailand. Once qualified...
- Divemaster - PADI Instructor Divemaster already? Looking for an Instructor Internship? Congratulations on being a PADI dive professional already at the PADI dive master level. If you have come this far you'll know the sense of achievement you get from this level and if you have work...
- PADI Dive Instructor Training Are you tired of an ordinary 9-5 job, the "rat-race"? Is life getting too dull for you? If you're a scuba diver, you obviously already have a passion for the adventurous lifestyle - if you're not, you must be looking to change and start living life to th...
- PADI MSDT and PADI STAFF Instructor PADI MSDT + PADI Staff Instructor Internships Mermaid's CDC Dive Center Pattaya, was operated since the late 80's to 2006 by the late Stephen Blumenthal - once the worlds' youngest PADI Course Director. Steve knew the importance of continued education to...
- Platinum and Gold Upgrade Dive Packages "Diving Life" Internship - Value Added Packages Gold & Platinum Packages The "Diving Life" internships that we offer from PADI Master Scuba Diver (MSD), PADI Divemaster (DM) or the FULL Open Water Scuba Diving Instructor (OWSI) have proven to be ext...
- Technical Diver Internship I This is a fantastic dive program for all of those crazy tekkies out there :-) - Technical divers. The Tec scuba diving internship course will get you making staged decompression dives to 45 metres using air and Nitrox. This is a fantastic introduction to ...
- Technical Diver Internship II Now you're becoming a serious diver on me! This is for the hardcore technical divers. This Tec scuba diving internship course is great value as broken down the cost would almost be one third again, if not packaged this way. This will take you diving air, ...
- Dive Resort Business Management Training (BMT) Mermaid’s Dive Centers comprehensive dive resort business management program exposes the dive professional to the skills and business principles needed to operate a successful PADI Five Star Dive Center or PADI Gold Palm Resort. Taking skills already lear...
All of the professional scuba diving traineeships offered result in a dive job placement service if required. We have been placing freshly trained dive professionals into scuba diving careers very successfully since the programs began.
Our professional diver training has increasingly become renowned for being thorough, unique and dedicated to those that are serious about a scuba diving career. We have interns working in Australia, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt, Honduras, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bali (Indonesia all over also), Spain, Mexico, Ireland, Mainland US, Grand Cayman, Turks and Caicos, Malaysia and many other countries.
Our dive training facilities are comprehensive and hence we have many dive professionals from other dive stores and shops train with us and hence there is a lot of dive networking to be done. Many dive trainees have dive jobs or at least interviews lined up for them before they graduate from the divemaster or diving instructor training programs.
