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Your NAUI Course
Director
Frederick Claro |
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Recipient of NAUI
Outstanding Services Award 2001
for NAUI Leadership Development. |
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In this world of multiplicity and confusion, it is very important for all
of us to find satisfaction in our personal pursuits as well as in our
training and education. We will all agree that quality time, quality
education, quality counseling, and quality criticism were all what we had,
or wish we had, during our youth. Those are the qualities we are looking
for in a teacher, someone who is going to take part in our physical and
intellectual development, and who will have a positive lifetime impact on
our behavior. |
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There is no doubt that this is also what we all wanted as young dive
leaders: somebody knowledgeable and experienced who we could rely on,
someone who could help us fulfill our desire to be capable and confident
dive leaders. |
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We at ScubaDivingInstructor.Com
have been very fortunate to find one of these rare educators. Frederick
"Freddy" Claro has a true love for diving and a dedication to
his students and his job that is rare in this fast-paced world. Most of us
here at ScubaDivingInstructor.Com have been trained by Freddy, and
we wouldn't trade our training with him for anything. Freddy can be tough
when necessary, but he is fair, and he has everything it takes to make you
into the respected dive professional that you want to be. He's also a
really nice guy! Let's look at his dive career. |
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Frederick (who is French but speaks fluent English) became a diver in
August 1981 in Toscana, Italy and hasn't stop diving since
then! After a university education in Lille (northern France), he worked
in the French military and then the National Police Force from 1984 to
1989. Every holiday he went diving in some of the best diving places in
the world: Italy, France, Madagascar, the Red
Sea, Thailand, Malaysia... |
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His passion for the underwater world became stronger than a career as a
police officer and he left for Australia in 1989 after becoming a Divemaster
in Phuket, Thailand.
In 1990, he became an Instructor and has been teaching as an instructor
ever since in several locations; the Red
Sea, Thailand, Malaysia
and Japan. All this time spent
diving, and teaching diving, has given him tremendous experience, allowing
him to log well over 3000 dives, to certify 1300 students of all levels
and ages (from 12 to 67 years old), among them 300 dive leaders and over
200 Instructors. |
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In 1996,
after some differing of opinion with one of the major certification
agencies worldwide, he crossed over to NAUI to
join the most democratic diving certification agency. With NAUI he
finally experienced and still enjoys the academic freedom he was longing
for.
Today, Frederick is one of the most respected diving
leaders in Asia and the most active NAUI Course Director in the
region. He has designed a very comprehensive and intensive Instructor
Career Development Program, which takes divers up through the levels of
NAUI to instructor. He has trained a team of educators (most of us here at
ScubaDivingInstructor.Com) who assist him in his courses and
programs. Some of us have been trained by Frederick from beginner level
and have followed him and trained with him since 1992. Recently he taught
his wife Jennifer, who has been a Divemaster since 1996, up to
Instructor and Instructor Trainer. They are a great team! |
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He is a frequent contributor to the NAUI magazines 'Sources' and 'ReSources'
and has helped in research programs on Indo-Pacific cowry shell evolution
(connected with the University of Berkeley, California and the marine
biology laboratory of the University of Guam). He has guided professional
underwater photographers and video-graphers on duty for magazines in the Red
Sea and Thailand.
He also assisted in the training of local "sea
gypsy" fisherman in southern Thailand
in a project financed by the European Union, designed to reorient local
population towards the tourism industry and keep them away from their
traditional fishing activities and further protect the environment. |
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Frederick has trained numerous dive leaders and instructors from all over
the world (from Greenland to Australia and from France to Japan). Most
recently, in spring 2000 he taught the first ever NAUI ITCs in Lebanon
and Bulgaria. Most of his
students are today successful dive professionals and some are dive center
owners/managers worldwide (please see the Student Comments
page for comments from some of them). He has been Training Manager of
known and successful diving centers in Asia and is the founder of Consult
Dive International, a worldwide dive business and education
consulting agency, also a NAUI Platinum Pro Member and DivingTravel.Com,
a successful online diving travel agency, which provides tours and live
aboard trips in the Asia Pacific region, the Galapagos
and the Red Sea. |
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Frederick is dedicated to training the best instructors in the field.
Following his training will bring you the experience of Frederick's
lifetime commitment to both the ocean and to his students. We at ScubaDivingInstructor.Com
highly recommend Freddy's training to those who are serious about diving,
and who are committed to being competent and confident dive professionals |
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"Put 20 years of
diving experience in YOUR training."
Freddy's personal website, click here |
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