Nicolas PAGNIER
PADI Master Instructor #490391
French, Born 22 April 1975
Languages: French-mother tongue,
English-fluent, German-good, Spanish-conversational, Russian-basic
Languages: French-mother tongue,
English-fluent, German-good, Spanish-conversational, Russian-basic
PADI TecRec Deep Instructor
EFR Instructor Trainer
TDI Advanced Trimix Diver
NACD Full Cave Diver
TDI Advanced Trimix Diver
NACD Full Cave Diver
Boat Captain Licence
International Driving Licence
Teaching 27 PADI Specialties: Altitude, Boat, Cavern, Deep, Digital UW Photography, Diver Propulsion Vehicle, Drift, Dry Suit, Emergency Oxygen, Fish Identification, Full Face Mask, Ice, Multilevel, Night, Nitrox, Recompression Chamber, Sea Turtle, Search and Recovery, Self-Reliance, Tec Basics, Trimix Gas Blending, UW Naturalist, UW Navigation, UW Photography, UW Videography, Whale Shark, Wreck
400+ Certs
International Driving Licence
Teaching 27 PADI Specialties: Altitude, Boat, Cavern, Deep, Digital UW Photography, Diver Propulsion Vehicle, Drift, Dry Suit, Emergency Oxygen, Fish Identification, Full Face Mask, Ice, Multilevel, Night, Nitrox, Recompression Chamber, Sea Turtle, Search and Recovery, Self-Reliance, Tec Basics, Trimix Gas Blending, UW Naturalist, UW Navigation, UW Photography, UW Videography, Whale Shark, Wreck
400+ Certs
1400+ Logged dives
Professional Diving Experience
Yucatek - Playa del Carmen, Mexico October 2011 to present
Cavern and ocean guiding, teaching
ProDive - Puerto Aventuras, Mexico July to October 2011, 4 months
Cavern and ocean guiding, teaching, pool trials
Dive Tulum - Tulum, Mexico May and June 2011, 2 months
Cavern and ocean guiding, teaching, promotion
Sinai Divers - Hilton Resort Dahab, Egypt 2010-2011, 6 months
PADI 5 Star CDC center and technical diving facility
Teaching and guiding (shore and boat dives)
Teaching technical diving
Guiding trimix dive
Staffing IDC
Dolphin Services - Djibouti City, Djibouti 2009-2010, 12 months
PADI Gold Palm Resort
Dive center manager responsible for all day to day running of center:
Teaching on US Army base and Sheraton Hotel
Guiding on daily boat trips
Promoting and running whaleshark snorkelling excursions
Answering customer quiries (email)
Equipment inventory and ordering
Divemaster and crew on M/Y Deli livaboard
Regal Dive, H2O, Oceanes, Dive Spirit Travel, Slow Dive, Fun and Fly
Support Diver for commercial dive operation
Christobel Colon Dredger using specialised video and communication equipment (AGA Divator MKII, Video Compact
BP-CVIS-II)
Diving the Crab - Diani, Kenya 2009, 2 months
PADI Gold Palm Resort with bases between several 5 star hotels
Teaching and guiding
Daily free pool trials
Blue Marlin - Gili Trawangan, Indonesia 2007-2008, 14 months
PADI 5 Star IDC Center and technical diving facility
A very busy divecenter, often requiring instructors to teach several courses simultaneously to mainly young customers.
Teaching and guiding
Technical guiding
Technical guiding
Staffing IDC
Support diver for the world record longest open salt water scbua dive record
B&J Pulau Tioman, Malaysia 2007, 7 months
Support diver for the world record longest open salt water scbua dive record
B&J Pulau Tioman, Malaysia 2007, 7 months
PADI 5 Star IDC Center and technical diving facility
Teaching and guiding.
Sea Dragon Khao Lak, Thailand 2007, 2 weeks
PADI 5 Star IDC Center
Guiding in the Similian Islands on M/V Mariner I, 12 bearth livaboard
Dive Training
NACD Full Cave Diver June 2011
with Fernando Davilla, Dive Tulum - Quintana Roo Mexico
PADI TecRec Deep Instructor Feb 2010
Pure Diving - Sharm el Sheik, Egypt
TDI Advanced Trimix Diver Nov 2008
with instructor Will Goodman, Blue Marlin Dive - Gili Trawangan, Indonesia
Instructor Development Course April 2007
with Platinum Course Director Azman Sulaiman Flora Bay Divers - Perhentian Besar, West Malaysia
PADI Divemaster January 2007
Sea Dragon - Khao Lak, Thailand
Professional Experience
Lycee Carcouet - Nantes, France Sept 2001 - July 2002
Mathematics teacher for ages 15-18
College La Durantiere - Nantes, France Sept 2000 - July 2001
Mathematics teacher for ages 11-15
Education
Teaching and guiding.
Sea Dragon Khao Lak, Thailand 2007, 2 weeks
Guiding in the Similian Islands on M/V Mariner I, 12 bearth livaboard
Dive Training
NACD Full Cave Diver June 2011
with Fernando Davilla, Dive Tulum - Quintana Roo Mexico
PADI TecRec Deep Instructor Feb 2010
Pure Diving - Sharm el Sheik, Egypt
TDI Advanced Trimix Diver Nov 2008
with instructor Will Goodman, Blue Marlin Dive - Gili Trawangan, Indonesia
Instructor Development Course April 2007
with Platinum Course Director Azman Sulaiman Flora Bay Divers - Perhentian Besar, West Malaysia
PADI Divemaster January 2007
Sea Dragon - Khao Lak, Thailand
Professional Experience
Lycee Carcouet - Nantes, France Sept 2001 - July 2002
Mathematics teacher for ages 15-18
College La Durantiere - Nantes, France Sept 2000 - July 2001
Mathematics teacher for ages 11-15
Classes Preparatoires aux Grandes Ecoles du Lycee Chateaubriand - Rennes, France
Sept 1999 - July 2000
Mathematics Examiner: Mathematiques Superieures (University level mathematics examiner)Sept 1999 - July 2000
Education
Institut de Formation Superieur en Informatique et Communication - Rennes, France Sept 1999 - July 2000
Masters in Theoretical Computer Science: Error correcting codes
Agregation de Mathematiques - Rennes, France Sept 1998 - July1999
National selection competition to become University level Mathematics teacher
Universite de Rennes I - Rennes, France Sept 1997 - July1998
Masters in Algebra - Low dimension algebraic topology
Hobbies
My hobbies include chess, mountaineering and traveling
