Look for someone with older European dive instructors is my advice. I lived in Phuket for 4 years and got to know the expatriate community well enough to comment that many younger western dive instructors there did not exactly instill confidence in me (they often went down drunk from the "night" or should I say early morning before). One guy I had to ask to leave the party we were having (he was lucky it only came to that) as nearly killed someone in the swimming pool by dunking them under the water from behind and they nearly choked on their own vomit to death; I mention this because it shows that some, I am sure not all, are a bit gun ho and it may be a good idea to eliminate the risk altogether.

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