LISA SETS A TREND FOR YOUNG DIVERS... PADI Master Scuba Diver!

What do you buy a young girl for her 12th birthday? A tricky question for anyone.

However, if at 11 years old she has already achieved a PADI Junior Adventure Diver certification, 5 PADI specialty courses and over 60 logged dives, the answer becomes a lot easier – a PADI Junior Rescue Diver course - of course!

Lisa Paggeot first blew bubbles at the age of 8 in April 2004 when she completed several PADI Seal Team dives in thePhilippines. More Seal Team ‘AquaMissions’ followed in Shenzhen China while her father Bruce was working there.

In February 2005, Bruce contacted PADI Course Director Chris Owen of Sea Bees Palm Garden - a PADI Gold Palm Resort/National Geographic Dive Centre on Phuket Island - and they both travelled to Thailand. Bruce took his PADI Draeger Ray Rebreather course and Lisa, nine years old became a PADI Master Seal Team Member.

After relocating to Singapore, Lisa aged 10 completed the PADI National Geographic Diver Specialty course on nearby Tioman Island and later added the PADI Underwater Navigator Speciality course to her list of diving achievements.

In February 2006, Bruce and Lisa visited Khao Lak in Thailand. Aboard Sea Bees day trip catamaran ‘The Stingray’, they completed the AWARE-Fish Identification and Underwater Photographer Specialty courses in the beauty of the world famous Similan Islands. Lisa - then 11 years - also gained her PADI Junior Adventure Diver certification.

Later that year Bruce and Lisa revisited Sea Bees Palm Garden where they enjoyed more diving and completed the PADI Underwater Naturalist Specialty course.

Having dived in Boracay, Philippines; Tioman Island and Pulua Aur in Malaysia; Manado, Bunaken and Lembeh in Indonesia; The Similans and Phi Phi Island in Thailand, Lisa returned in June this year to Sea Bees on Phuket and completed her PADI Junior Advanced Open Water Diver course with a deep dive to 21 metres. Under the professional eye of Dokmai “Born” Chada – Sea Bees head Thai PADI Instructor - both Bruce and Lisa completed the PADI Rescue Diver course.

…So, 5 days after Lisa’s 12th birthday, both Chris and Born had the great pleasure of signing two PADI Master Scuba Diver applications... the ultimate non-professional certification in recreational diving.

CONGRATULATIONS Bruce and Lisa!!  I’m sure you’ll agree this is an incredible achievement for a young girl who’s not yet hit her teens. Now Lisa’s going to need something to keep her busy for the next few years until she can start her PADI Divemaster Course.

To contact Sea Bees Diving at the Palm Garden Resort in Phuket, Thailand, phone: 66-7628 0650, fax: 66-762 0467, email info@sea-bees.com or chriso@loxinfo.co.th Sea Bees Diving in Khao Lak, phone/fax: 66-76 420 581, email info@sea-bees.com or visit their website at www.sea-bees.com.

Join the best of the best in recreational scuba diving. Live the diving lifestyle and explore the underwater world like never before. You can do it by becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver – a rating that puts you in a class of distinction. You earn it by diving and writing your ticket to endless adventure through the experience and training that sets you apart as a PADI Master Scuba Diver.

With the PADI Master Scuba Diver rating, you’ve reached the highest non professional level in the PADI System of diver education. It means that you’ve acquired significant training and experience in a variety of dive environments.

For more information on becoming a PADI Master Scuba Diver, contact your local PADI Dive Center or Resort. Visit padi.com

About PADI
PADI (Professional Association of Diving Instructors) is the world’s largest recreational dive training, certification and membership organisation. PADI Members (dive centres, resorts, educational facilities, instructors, assistant instructors and divemasters) issue nearly 1,000,000 certifications worldwide each year, making underwater exploration and adventure accessible to the public, while maintaining the highest industry standards for dive training, safety and customer service. For more information, visit padi.com.

For further information visit your PADI Dive Centre/Resort. Visit padi.com

 

New PADI Master Scuba Divers!
L to R: Dokmai “Born” Chada, PADI Instructor at Sea Bees, Lisa and Bruce Paggeot with PADI Course Director, Chris Owen.

 

 

Professional ambition… a passionate diver, Lisa Paggeot looks forward to a successful career.