Kevin Black Diving

Master Instructor Kevin Black

After years of teaching students in the northern hemisphere in The UK, Malta Italy and the Red Sea Master Instructor Kevin Black has returned to his favourite southern hemisphere diving destination Thailand in 2009.

Originally from New Zealand Kevin Black has traveled the world logging 1000's of scuba dives in both warm and cold water, Inland fresh water sites and coastal seas with many dives in both good and bad visibility.

Some of the destinations Kevin has dived in include: New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Borneo, Thailand, Egypt, Cyprus, United Kingdom, Italy, Malta, Bahamas and the Andaman Islands.


  • Learning to dive
  • Specialties
  • Courses Written By Kevin
  • Distinctive Specs
  • Technical
  • First Aid
  • Boating
  • Photography
  • Contact

PADI Open Water "core" Courses

Learning to dive is serious business. Sure it is fun, safe and easy but you want the best training you can get for your foundation skills.

Master Instructor Kevin Black has years of experience teaching many students in many different envoronments.

PADI core Courses taught by Kevin: Discover Scuba Diving, Open Water Diver, Advanced Open Water Diver, Rescue Diver, Master Scuba Diver, Dive Master, Assistant Instructor

Kevin Black Diving

Specialty courses conducted by Kevin

When choosing a Specialty Instructor you want to look for someone who has a wealth of knowledge in a wide variety of areas. Kiwidiver Master Instructor Kevin Black can teach nearly all PADI Specialty Courses and has in-depth experience in everything he teaches.

PADI Specialty Courses taught by Kiwidiver Master Instructor Kevin Black include: Peak Performance Buoyancy, Project Aware, AWARE Coral Reef Conservation, Enriched Air Diver, Wreck Diver, Boat Diver, Deep Diver, Dry Suit Diver, Underwater Photographer, Digital Underwater Photographer, Underwater Navigator, Multilevel Diver, Search & Recovery Drift Diver, Equipment Specialist, Underwater Videographer, Semi closed re-breather, Night Diver, DPV Diver.

Kiwidiver Master Instructor Kevin Black has also written a number of PADI Distinctive Specialty courses.

Kevin Black Thailand

PADI Distictive Specialty Courses

PADI Instructors with suitable experience in topics of diving where PADI don't currently have a specialty course can write a teaching outline and submit to PADI for approval to teach a specialised course.

PADI Master Instructor Kevin Black has written a number of Distinctive Specialty Courses including: Twinset Fundamentals, Full Face Mask, Compressor operator and more.

Kevin is also in the process of writing more PADI Distinctive Specialty Instructor outlines at this time.

PADI Distinctive Specialty Instructor Outlines written by Kevin Black are available for purchase by suitable qualified Instructors.

Email blackie@kiwidiver.com for more information.

Kevin Black New Zealand

PADI Distinctive Specialty Courses

PADI Distinctive Specialty Courses taught by Master Instructor Kevin Black include:

Aware Shark diver, Advanced Nitrox, SMB Diver, Oxygen First Aid, Hazardous Marine Life Injuries, Automated External Defibrillator, TEC Basics, Full Face Mask, Twinset Fundamentals.

 

Kevin Black London

DSAT Technical Diving

A surprisingly affordable and increasingly popular option is to have your own Personal Scuba Trainer allocated to you for your training. Your Private Instructor stays with you throughout your training customizing the training to suit your individual needs.

From just having your own instructor to reserving a boat just for yourself or your family, Kiwidiver can accommodate all your requirements.

We also can provide a Private Dive Guide or Personal Scuba Trainer to accompany you on your own, or one of our chartered boats as required.

Personal Scuba Trainer available from 2000 Baht per day.

Kevin Black Technical Diver

First Aid Training

With over 25 years experience in teaching First Aid you can be sure of quality in-depth training from Instructor Trainer Kevin Black.

DAN Instructor Trainer: 73083 (all DAN Courses)

EFR Instructor Trainer: 629827 (all EFR Courses)

 

Kevin Black Instructor Trainer

Kevin is also a keen sailor

RYA Commercial Powerboat Skipper

RYA Coastal Skipper

RYA Sea Survival

Ships Radio Operator

Kevin Black Sailing

Kevin Black Underwater Photographer

Kevin is a keen underwater photographer with photagraphs published in verious print publications in The Uk, Netherlands and New Zealand and has photos on several web sites.

Kevin Black Photography

Kevin Black - Contact Details

Phone: +66 801 451 603

Email: blackie@kiwidiver.com

Web: www.kevinblack.co.uk

Facebook: www.facebook.com/kiwidiver

Skype: kiwidiver.com

Kevin Black at Work