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Web Site of NAUI Course Director Frederick "Freddy" Claro
NAUI Outstanding Service Award Recipient
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Diving Career
1981: Start scuba
diving in Toscana, Italy and dive regularly thereafter
1989: Professional PADI Divemaster - Phuket, Thailand
1990: Divemaster in Sydney and Cairns, Australia, PADI Instructor at
the European Diving College in Cannes
1990-91: Instructor in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt
1991-95: Instructor in Phuket, and Koh Samui, Thailand. PADI Elite
Instructor 1992. Instructor Trainer in Malaysia, and 1st PADI Master
Instructor in Southeastern Thailand. Manager of a chain of three dive centres in Koh Samui and
Training Manager of one of the biggest dive centres
in Phuket, Thailand
1995: Started Consult Dive
International, a dive education and dive travel consultancy
1996: NAUI Instructor - taught by Arthur "Dusty" Rhodes, pioneer of
recreational scuba diving in South East Asia
1997: NAUI Instructor Trainer and Course Director. Educational
and management consultant for various dive centers in Asia
1998: Quit PADI and become an independent NAUI Course Director,
developed international Instructor
Training Courses
ASHI First Aid and CPR, Oxygen Provider Instructor Trainer
1999: 1st website online
DivingTravel.Com, which is today a leader in online diving
travel, Manager of a well known dive centre in Phuket, Thailand
2000:
Consult Dive International goes online too. 1st NAUI ITCs in Varna,
Bulgaria, and Beirut, Lebanon. Recipient of NAUI Pacific Rim Outstanding
Service Award for NAUI leadership development in Asia
2002: NAUI Worldwide Outstanding Service Award winner, the
scuba diving industry "Oscar". Co-founder of the
European Diving
Career Institute in Varna, Bulgaria, NAUI Pacific Rim Course Director
for international Instructor Training Courses
2002: Relocated to Kumamoto,
Kyushu, Japan. Developed NAUI training programs in cooperation with a well
known local NAUI centre.
Consult Dive International partnered with a NAUI facility in the
Caribbean to run the first ever NAUI ITC in this part of the world in
August. NAUI Instructor Development will continue at the
European Diving
Career Institute in Varna, and in Japan
2003: Developing NAUI instructor training and continuing education
programs in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
Freddy also is a regular
contributor to the "Sources" and "ReSources" magazines, where
his articles
have been published in numerous occasions. Other articles have been
published in "Dive Log Asia" a now defunct side magazine of
Asian Diver, which was addressing to the professional diving
community in Asia.
He has been coordinating field research for biological and environmental
studies in the Red Sea and in Thailand, participated in a Thai governmental
project under the auspices of the European Union, where local
Thai Sea Gypsies were trained as NAUI Divemasters and a dive centre was
opened for them in deep southern Thailand, in a relocation and reorientation
project of local nationals involved with fishing in National Marine
Parks.
Freddy also helped in the training of numerous Thai nationals up to NAUI
Instructor level, who are now active in numerous dive centers locally.
Assisted in the training of key staff of the
Phuket's Marine Biology Centre in 2001,which is a NAUI facility now and
offers NAUI certifications to its graduates.
Freddy is training at the EDCI in Varna, Bulgaria, most
NAUI Instructors for the Bulgarian Navy, and key staff for the "Varna
Underwater Archeological Society" where intensive underwater archeology
courses are offered with NAUI credentials
Freddy has trained over
1,200 divers all level and over 300 Instructors. Most of them are active
Instructors or dive centers owners worldwide. They are all glad they made the right choice to become an Instructor
and start their career with Freddy!..
Check on some graduates
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E-mail: freddy@frederickclaro.com
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