I am a IDC Staff Instructor with PADI (Professional Association for Diving Instructors) and a Dive Control Specialist Instructor with SSI (Scuba Schools International). So I can teach scuba diving from beginner level and up to Assistant Instructor level, in addition to most specialities. I am also a Emergency First Response Instructor Trainer with Emergency First Response, so that I can teach First Aid Instructors. In addion I am a Oxygen First Aid Instructor and Harzardous Marine Life Injury Instructor with Divers Alert Network.
My first introduction to scuba diving in warm water was at Phi Phi Islands in Thailand. A couple of minutes after I entered the water for the first time I was hooked on it to such a degree that I knew it was the field I would like to work within at some point. From then things went quite fast and I became a dive instructor, at some point I went back to teach scuba diving at the same place that I did my first introduction to scuba diving in warm water.
Personalia
Full name Sean Kjetil Nordbø
Date of birth 01 June 1971
Nationality Norwegian
Height/Weight 183 cm / 78 kg
Health Excellent
Dive education
2003 Open Water PADI
2003 Advanced Open Water PADI
2003 EFR (first/secondary care) EFR
2003 Rescue Diver PADI
2005 Divemaster PADI
2005 Instructor PADI
2005 EFR Instructor EFR
2005 EFR Care for Childen Instructor EFR
2005 PPB Speciality PADI
2005 Project AWARE Specialist Speciality PADI
2005 Project AWARE Coral Reef Speciality PADI
2005 Oxygen Provider DAN
2006 Deep Diver Speciality PADI
2006 Multilevel Diver Speciality PADI
2006 Underwater Naturalist Speciality PADI
2006 Night Diver Speciality PADI
2006 Wreck Diver Speciality PADI
2006 Boat Diver Speciality PADI
2006 Drift Diver Speciality PADI
2006 Project AWARE Fish ID Speciality PADI
2006 Underwater Navigator Speciality PADI
2006 Enriched Air Speciality PADI
2006 Master Scuba Diver Trainer PADI
2006 IDC Staff Instructor PADI
2006 Dive Control Specialist Instructor SSI
2007 EFR Instructor Trainer EFR
2007 First Aid for HMLI Instructor DAN
2007 Search And Recover Speciality PADI
2007 Digital U/W Photo Speciality PADI
2007 Oxygen Provider Instructor PADI
Dive employment
2003 – 07 Island Divers, Phi Phi Islands Instructor
2007 – 07 Bastianos Bunaken, Sulawesi Dive Resort Manager
2008 – Barefoot Scuba, Andaman Islands Dive resort Director
Dives and certifications
I have more then 4000 logged dives to date in Europe and Asia. This number do not include training dives with students where the main focus has been to practice skills. As I have always worked in very busy dive shops and hold membership with several training agencies, my number of certifications is very high for the period I have been a dive instructor. In total I have issued 1000+ certifications of all levels with PADI, SSI, EFR and DAN.
Languages
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
English