Scuba Nation Cambodia - PADI Diving and Instruction in the Gulf of Thailand (Sihanoukville and Phnom Penh)

   Announcing the Finalists & Winners of the PADI Members Awards 2010 Thursday, February 25, 2010  
Today we received this email from PADI

  Announcing the Finalists & Winners of the Members Awards 2010

To better recognise the achievements of those PADI Dive Centres and Resorts who have made significant contributions to the growth and development of diving, PADI Asia Pacific is pleased to announce the finalists and winners of this year’s PADI Asia Pacific Member Awards program which recognises their efforts from 2009.

The PADI Member Awards program was based on nine separate Asia Pacific regions; a system that ensured PADI Members compete with other PADI Members within their own geographical region for one of five Awards.

All PADI Dive Centres and Resorts within each of the nine regions were considered for nomination by a specially convened selection panel, who selected up to three finalists for each of the awards.

A panel of PADI judges then considered all of the finalists within each region and we are very pleased to announce the following finalists and winners of this year’s awards.

PADI congratulates all of our Members on the outstanding job you do training divers and we wish you the best of success for the remainder of 2010.

Region 12 – Johnny Chew

Outstanding (Dive Centre/Resort) Business Award Finalists
Jeremy Stein’s Rainbow Divers S-6515
Quiver Dive Team S-36202
Scuba Nation Diving Centre S-6638

WINNER: Quiver Dive Team S-36202


We are honored that we where in the finals and we would like to congratulate Quiver Dive team with winning the Outstanding Business Award

Staff Scuba Nation


   PADI Instructor Development information Sunday, February 14, 2010  
Hi Divers

Nick our webmaster has put already most of the information about our PADI Instructor Development Courses (IDC)
on our main website. http://www.divecambodia.com/IDC/GeneralInfo.aspx?lang=eng
There are still some glitches in it but he is working on that.
If you are interested to become a PADI PRO, Scuba Nation is the way to go!!!!!
Just email us and we will answer all your questions.
Also Gerard the co owner of Scuba Nation has been accepted by PADI in the PADI Course Director Training Course starting in March this year.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Staff Scuba Nation Cambodia
   42 New Coral Conservationists are born Wednesday, January 06, 2010  
Scuba Nation sponsors 42 kids,

For full story go to:
http://www.projectaware.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/42-new-coral-conservationists-are-born/

Best regards

Scuba Nation

   Happy 2010 Friday, January 01, 2010  
Dear Divers

The staff of Scuba Nation PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Centre Cambodia, wishes you all a great and safe 2010.

Best regards

Staff Scuba Nation
   New IDC website coming soon. Tuesday, December 08, 2009  
Dear Divers

We are working hard at the moment on our the new PADI Instructor Development Cambodia website and we hope to launch the site soon.
We will put all the IDC information also on www.divecambodia.com so keep an eye out for some great deals on how the become a PADI Professional.
For 2010 we are planning to run 4 IDC's and will publish our PADI IDC schedule very soon.

Scuba Nation the way to GO PRO in Cambodia and South East Asia.

Staff Scuba Nation
   Great trip out to Koh Tang Tuesday, December 08, 2009  
We had a great trip out to Koh Tang and just came back.
Nice visibility 20 to 25 mrt and we saw a big group of more then 40 Bat fish, a big school of Barracuda and Bumphead parrot fish. We had Cobia's on most dives and they are really cool to see.
We did 5 dives and the night dive was very good.

Thank you very much to our divers and we hope to see you next time.

Staff Scuba Nation



   Project AWARE Beach Clean Up Monday, November 30, 2009  
On the 20th of November we organised  a beach clean up with 42 kids from Grade 6 and 10 from an International school in Cambodia. We wanted  them to use what they had learned in their Project AWARE Coral Reef Conservation course which Scuba Nation had sponsored for them.
We cleaned in about an hour more them 20 mtr beach and removed 5 big bags of garbage.
The kids where amazed how much rubbish was there and promised not to trow rubbish just on the floor but in bins.
It was a great day and we had loads of fun jumping from the top deck of the boat.
   PADI 5 Star IDC in Cambodia Monday, November 30, 2009  
Scuba Nation is proud to announce that we been awarded with the prestigious status as the first and only PADI 5 Star Instructor Development Centre in Cambodia. Scuba Nation has teamed up with PADI platinum Course Director SF Chong who has an excelent reputation in the dive industry. CD Chong will be running our IDC's in Cambodia with the help of Master Instructor Gerard and IDCS Vicky. The team has loads of experience teaching and running IDC'S and teaching new PADI instructors. Scuba Nation are truly the pioneers of diving in Cambodia and have been bringing PADI to Cambodia 8 years ago and we are very happy to be able to offer you the highest level in PADI continue education available in Cambodia and to become a PADI Instructor.

For more information on becoming an PADI Instructor please email us at info@divecambodia.com
   PADI awards Scuba Nation as the only PADI National Geographic Dive Centre in Cambodia. Thursday, May 01, 2008  
Scuba Nation is very proud to announce that PADI awarded our dive centre as; the only PADI National Geographic Dive Centre in Cambodia.

PADI recognizes our business as a progressive dive operation that offers the best customer service, education, equipment and dive experiences. PADI told us that our commitment to advancing a premium-level of adventure and environmental awareness in our education programs is exciting and commendable. We are cultivating an elite class of people who understand the importance and the impact they have on the ocean realm and what they can do to preserve it for future generations. In essence, we are creating ambassadors for the underwater world.

We are very pleased to receive this prestiges award for all the hard work we have done since we opened our dive centre in 2002.
And we are happy that Cambodia is finally becoming a destination for divers.

We would like to thank everybody who has dived with us in the past and we welcome all new divers to our dive centre to come and enjoy the best diving experience in Cambodia.

Thank you very much

Best regards

Gerard & Vicky
   Koh Tang Khmer New Year Tuesday, April 15, 2008  
On the 13th April we went to Koh Tang for our traditional Khmer New Year overnight trip.
A big welcome back to Hiko and Takeshi our regulars who are always a pleasure to dive with, and our own  PADI Divemaster Mike.  Sorry rest of the world you can now only get "The Mike" experience with Scuba Nation Cambodia.
We set off at 7.30 and after the boat briefing, breakfast was served, we did our first dive at Cobia point on Koh Rong Samloem, we dived in 4 groups off our two boats.
Our group started the dive a little bit differently  and we discovered a whole new part at Cobia, which we had not dived before.Very nice hard and soft corals and many Nudibranches, the vis was between 7 to 10 mtr, it was a great dive.
After an hour we surfaced and got back on the boat and had lunch as we headed to Koh Tang.
Our second dive was at The Steps and the vis was 15mtr. The Steps is a great dive site and suitable for everybody from snorkeller to experienced diver. Very nice boulder corals and lots of reef fish.
The night dive was at Beedy Eye Bay where you will have to look for all the weird stuff which is there. We saw big Blue spotted Sting rays, Toad fish, many shrimps and Moray Eels.

After a good night of sleep we did our early morning dive at Giraffe, and the vis was 25+  and two massive Cobia,s at the start off our drift dive.
Our last dive was on Explosion reef and it is always a pleasure to see the looks on divers faces when they arrive on the reef.
Explosion is a very big spread out reef build up with table and stack corals, boulder corals with Christmas Tree worms with different colours and fish every where, I had divers saying to me before that this reef is better then the great barrier reef.

Scuba Nation would like to thank all the people who where on the trip for a great time and we will see you all back soon.

Staff Scuba Nation
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» Divemaster Mike (3/9/2008)  
» Youngest Ever Open water diver in Cambodia (2/12/2008)  
» Divemaster (12/10/2007)  
» Great new Diving season started in Cambodia (11/18/2007)  
» Congratulation Nathalie and Mike (1/26/2007)  
» Merry Xmas and a Happy new year (12/25/2006)  
» Underwater Runners (10/20/2006)  
» New Paint Job! (10/8/2006)  
» New Website for a new and exciting Diving Season (10/6/2006)  
   
PADI Scuba Diving Tips of The Day » Drink plenty of water regularly and often even if you do not feel thirsty, especially in hot climates – dehydration can contribute to decompression sickness. Your body needs water – keep it supplied.