Bent Posejpal, PADI Course Director, is a Norwegian National and has been living in Phuket for the past 15-years. Bent was Instructional Manager at Phukets first 5 star IDC Center for over six years before leaving and joining John Williams in partnership, forming Siam Dive n' Sail in Phuket in 1996.

Bent practically grew up diving, as his father owned a dive center in Norway and Bent has been working in the shop for as long as he can remember. His father was the first PADI Instructor in Norway, way back when.... Bent has dived extensively in Norway both as a Navy diver and as a PADI Pro, as well as here in Thailand.

Bent became a PADI Instructor in 1988 and staffed many IDCs prior to becoming certified as a Course Director in 1994. Since then, he has conducted more than 100 IDC programs in Southeast Asia and around the world and has an extremely high referral rate among his former students. He has trained around 1,000 PADI Instructors, and was rewarded the Platinum Frequent Trainer (highest) rating by PADI in 2007.Have a look at some of the comments from his former students for a better idea of why Bent is your best choice.

Bent's talents also run to writing, as he has been published several times in Norwegian diving magazines, writing about upper-level education and about the wonderful diving to be found in Thailand's waters.

Bent speaks English like a native, as well as the Scandinavian Languages. If you want to get off on the right fin in your new career in diving, get Bent as soon as possible!