Via Nawara Fattahova

KUWAIT: As some of the main and authorized diving facilities on the planet, the Skilled Affiliation of Diving Instructors (PADI) awarded the swimming and diving middle on the Kuwait Science Membership (KSC) with the PADI GoPro Award for its position in bettering the diving business outside and inside Kuwait.

The award was once a part of the Regional Director of PADI Captain Firas Jindi’s consult with to GCC international locations, the place the brand new updates to PADI’s program had been mentioned. Jindi praised the prime usual of Kuwaiti divers and diving instructors typically and the diving instructors of KSC’s swimming and diving middle particularly. He spotted the expanding selection of divers who’ve passed through skilled classes of PADI all the way through the previous couple of years.

Because of the pandemic, Jindi was once now not in a position to consult with Kuwait for the previous two years. “After existence returned to commonplace, PADI’s visits had been once more scheduled to check the task of qualified diving facilities. KSC’s swimming and diving middle is one among two facilities in Kuwait which might be specialised in growing the abilities of diving instructors,” he identified.

Throughout the consult with, Jindi met the teacher of diving instructors and Director of KSC’s Swimming and Diving Middle Captain Meshari Al-Khabaaz and different instructors to speak about trends and updates to PADI particular techniques for coaching high quality programs and requirements, and safety and security procedures adopted via the group to expand diving, Jindi stated.

In keeping with him, Kuwait and GCC international locations accomplished sure ends up in the diving business regardless of the trip restrictions because of the pandemic. “The business registered visual expansion all the way through the pandemic, more than earlier than the pandemic, as a result of the e-learning packages and techniques of PADI,” he famous.

“KSC draws other age classes, particularly younger other people with other pursuits. There are handiest two other people preserving the identify of ‘teacher of instructors’, and one among them is Captain Meshari Al-Khabaaz, the director of KSC’s swimming and diving middle, which is vital for PADI, which considers KSC as one of the vital vital facilities for coaching instructors,” Jindi stated.

Many diving facilities all over the world survived the pandemic because of e-learning packages. “PADI designed all its techniques with the most recent e-learning applied sciences supplied in several languages for diving facilities together with Arabic, which was some of the major languages in PADI’s techniques and packages. Maximum specialised classes and major classes had been supplied in Arabic,” he concluded.

Khabbaz expressed his happiness on the nice fulfillment of KSC to procure the PADI GoPro Award. “We’re proud that PADI selected the swimming and diving middle of KSC as a part of its regional consult with. This displays the prime usual of our middle, which has turn into some of the very best qualified diving facilities within the area. The PADI updates seminar, which is essentially the most vital match within the diving business, was once in the past held at KSC, as our coaching middle is likely one of the five-star facilities within the area,” he defined.