Category: Musings

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A Divemaster is born

It’s been an interesting, exhausting, challenging, at times frustrating and most definitely overwhelmingly positive and rewarding experience. The divemaster internship at World Diving Lembongan comprises of many hours of studying, informative practicals and as...

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A year of adventures

It’s a year today that we said goodbye to England and began our adventures in South East Asia… …wow, a year! and what a year it has been! We’ve lost over fifty pounds of blubber between...

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A week in the life of a DMT

It’s exhausting all this divemastering 😁 honestly the last six days have been a blur. I barely saw my fellow DMTs Kai had his girlfriend here and went conspicuously AWOL and Carolyn had to...

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The Intern, divemaster style 

The last five days has been nothing short of epic, I’ve finally made my way through chapter nine and to the end of the PADI Divemaster manual, although I’m going to be rereading that last...

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What a difference a smile makes

After almost a year travelling on our own, with only sporadic visits with friends, followed by the quite ghastly GA Adventures group tour, I am loving being surrounded by such nice people on Nusa Lembongan, our home...

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Live your life

I finished shadowing my first PADI open water certification on Monday and am still basking in the glow, it was so much fun and so rewarding to be part of introducing someone to diving. I know...

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Eat, Divemaster, Love

It’s been ten days since I started my PADI divemaster internship with World Diving in Nusa Lembongan, an hour across the sea from Bali. Ten short days, during which the first few days fraught with...

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DiveMaster PADIwan

Apologies for the radio silence, it’s been a hectic few weeks, she said not entirely tongue in cheek…after a less than ideal three weeks in China it was with great joy that we returned...

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Hong Kong, Day 19

Today has been pretty darn awesome, we arrived in Hong Kong about 8pm last night after almost 36 hours of nonstop travelling. Having decided we wanted to break free from the tour after travelling...

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Journey to Yangshuo, China, day 17

Day 17 started a few minutes past midnight going into one of five huge locks at the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze river. In front of us a much larger cruise ship was...