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Mermaids Scuba Diving PADI Career Development Center, Pattaya, Thailand has strived to offer the very best in professional dive training over the years with some very high success. Changing careers can be a nerve racking business but with our all-inclusive dive internship programs Mermaids try to make the transition as smooth as possible for the budding pro-diver.

Professional Dive Industry Training is not expensive if you look at the value of what is included within the intern dive packages - literally taking a diver (or non-diver) with very little (or no) dive experience and offering them complete dive training with all of the dive equipment, manuals and materials to make it in the dive industry. Having said that, some budding dive professionals may not have the immediate funding to begin their adventure and new dive career. We have been frequently asked for assistance from those requiring financial aid for their dive training or a diver payment scheme - the Young People’s Learning Agency will assist all of those that are eligible to enter the professional dive industry and gain dive jobs.

Mermaids Dive Center have secured a Learning Provider association with YPLA (Young People’s Learning Agency) and hence can accept dive students from Great Britain that have taken a vocational loan to train as a professional diver. This is financial assistance for the diver programs operated at Mermaids Diver Career Training Center.

Mermaids CDC Thailand - Young People’s Learning Agency Registration Number - 12441

Professional and Career Development Loans are bank loans that can be used to help pay for work related learning.  You can borrow between £300 and £10,000 to help support the cost of up to two years of learning (or three years if it includes one year’s relevant unpaid practical work).  The Young People’s Learning Agency will pay the interest on the loan while you are learning and for one month afterwards.  The loan can be used to pay dive course fees or other costs such as travel and living expenses.  You can also use the loan to supplement other forms of support such as grants or bursaries.  Because the Professional and Career Development Loan is a commercial loan product, they should only be considered as an option once all other student funding options have been investigated.  For further information on financial assistance to support your learning, please visit www.direct.gov.uk/ adultlearning or contact Careers Advice on 0800 100 900.  Mermaids Dive Career Development Center learning provider registration number is: 12441