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About Jonas PADI Course Director Jonas Samuelsson reveals a little about his murky past... I was 6 years old when my father introduced me to his friend who was a college swim teacher. My father was a great swimmer and always had a special relationship with the ocean. He wanted me to early on to establish a simillar relationship with water. I started to take swim training and despite the fact that I was the only one in the beginners class who had to take the class twice, I continued. The swimming lead to snorkeling and free diving after a few years. I still remember when I received my first diving mask and I was standing in the shower in our family house and practicing clearing the mask! It took me almost 10 years to start diving. Together with some family members I took the beginners class. I was hooked from the first breath. I always loved free diving but there was limitations to it and now i could stay for hours under water without having to surface. Quickly I signed up for all courses up to PADI Divemaster.
The diving became a part of my life, something that I did in the cold Baltic Sea on almost every weekend. After my formal degree I was offered the chance to start a new diving magazine in Scandinavia called The UnderwaterMagazine (UVM). We were only three in the beginning and my title was "Marketing Director". But together we wrote the articles, took the photos and edited each other's text and in the evenings ran around trying to get Mares or ScubaPro and the rest of the manufacturers to sponsor the magazine. It was a great time! During this time I also completed my Instructor Course and after that I became the writer of Educational Articles for the magazine. UVM became the largest diving magazine in Scandinavia within one year! After years of teaching diving and working for the magazine I got offered the chance to take the PADI Course Director Course and establish IDCs in Thailand. I jumped at the opportunity because I wanted to come back to teaching full-time and to actual diving (rather than "just" writing about it). We established the Koh Tao IDC Group in 1998. I became the Head PADI Course Director of the KTIG and remain so to the present day. If you want to become a Divemaster or Instructor, you are making a great decision - the world is waiting for you! The Instructor Card is going to be your passport to the over 175 countries that PADI is represented! Please e-mail me if you have any questions about a career in diving. I would be proud to work with you towards your goal of becoming a PADI Instructor! Please feel free to email me if you have any further questions about any of our diving programs |
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