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About Me

Originally born in the Netherlands, I stayed there untill 1981, in the most Southern province of Limburg. In 1981 I went to West Berlin and ended up staying for eight years. When I left Berlin around July/August 89, I was under the impression that the Berlin Wall would be up there for the rest of my life. How wrong I was in my believe was proofed a couple of months later when the Wall came thumbling down, almost with the speed of light.I moved back to the Netherlands and worked for a booking Agency, based in Nijmegen, that organised European Tours for Alternative bands. Mainly American bands but some Australian bands as well. In the late 8tees this turned out to be something I saw no future in and I became a tourmanager for some of those bands for the last couple of years I lived in the Netherlands.Since diving always was one of my hobbies, along with travelling, at some stage I decided to become a dive professional, and slowly I started to carve out my path into this direction. My initial PADI Open Water certification I got in Roatan/Honduras followed by my PADI Advanced Open Water course at the Gili Islands in Indonesia, all my other courses after this were conducted in Thailand. My Rescue and Divemaster courses I completed in Phi Phi Island in respectively 1997 and late 1998 and in February 1999 I became a PADI OWSI by attending my IDC and IE in Pattaya. My Course Director was Jamie McLeod.In late 1999 I moved to Koh Samui with an Instructor job waiting for me at the Imperial Boathouse. Giving myself 6 months to see if I could make a living out of this, I find myself now 8 years later still on Koh Samui, being married to my lovely wife Tassanee, having build a house here and having two children running around in it.My diving career gave me more than I initially expected and hoped for. I became a PADI Course Director in April 2003 in Kota Kinabulu, Malaysia. Currently I'm the in house PADI Course Director for Samui International Diving School on Koh Samui, Thailand, since the last 4 years, a company I've been with for the last 7 years. To see more about my work and my Instructor training, visit my website at http://www.idcthailand.net the site is available in English, German at http://www.idcthailand.net/DE/index.de.html and Dutch at http://www.idcthailand.net/NL/index.nl.html

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PADI's Risk Management Seminar Koh Samui 22nd July 2007

PADI's Risk Management Seminar Koh Samui 22nd July 2007 Was held at Centara Grand Beach Resort and presented by Richard Evans.The seminar is about a dive related fatality and is filmed in a re...
Posted by on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 05:16:00 GMT

Succesful PADI IE on Koh Tao, July 2007

The PADI IE is successfully completed! During the last three days, my two IDC candidates have successfully completed their IE on Koh Tao. 37 candidates participated and all but one were successful. ...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:03:00 GMT

Halfway through the July IDC

A quick update on my current IDC.Today we finished the Open Water dive for the AI part of the IDC and that completed the AI part of this IDC. The only thing my candidates still have to do is to hand i...
Posted by on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:02:00 GMT

Thailand in a tourist turmoil?

Thailand in a tourist turmoil? Having lived now for almost 8 years in Thailand, I can't help but notice that it never has seem so quiet as it is right now in Thailand and consequently on Koh S...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 07:45:00 GMT

My friends on My Space

Let's have a look at my friends on My Space There's not that many so far but this will hopefully change in the near future. There's a few music related friends and all of the bands listed he...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:20:00 GMT

The PADI Divemaster course

The PADI Divemaster course This course is the first step in becoming a dive professional in the PADI system. Have a look here at my website or my dive blog. In general this we conduct this course...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:40:00 GMT

Unexpected artifacts in a Southern Thai Museum

Hi all to this short report about some very unexpected artifacts I found in a Southern Thai museum on the premises of Wat Pra Mahathat, Nakhon Si Thammarat's claim to fame. For a complete article abou...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:04:00 GMT

PADI Instructor Exam on Koh Samui, Thailand, June 2007

Hi, As promised, here's an update on the PADI Instructor Exam, held on Koh Samui, Thailand, from 8th to 10th June 2007. All of my six candidates where very succesful during their 3 days of hard work a...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:55:00 GMT

PADI IE starts today

Today the PADI IE starts for my 6 IDC candidates, 1 English and 5 Japanese candidates. There'll be 3 other candidates from Marita Fassbender, another Course Director on Koh Samui. Today they will have...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:19:00 GMT

PADI Specialties

Hi, One of the interesting things to learn in the PADI system, are according to me the PADI Specialties. I love teaching them at student level but as a PADI Course Director I also get to teach a lot o...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:02:00 GMT