Almost an instructor…
It’s been an interesting few weeks, at times fun and at times frustrating as all hell. It’s unfortunate that one of those frustrating times has happened today, the DAY BEFORE MY BLOODY EXAMS ah...
Tagged: DiveMaster
Are expectations at fault?
My heart dropped when I heard there were to be fifteen Chinese divemasters doing the PADI Instructor Development Course with me. The Chinese are the largest growing dive market and so it makes sense that...
dive shop disappointments
Our arrival at the dive shop was less than auspicious, no one said hello or asked if we needed help. Although to be fair that seems pretty common in dive shops with everyone far...
A year of diving!
A year ago today we took our first tentative steps into the water guided by our self-described skinny lizard instructor Lorenzo, under the hot sun at Redang Kalong on Redang Island in Malaysia. I...
Time flies…
Time really does fly here, it’s almost a month since we’ve been back and it has whizzed past in a blur of diving, dinners, research and relaxation. For inherently unsociable people there sure are...
From ABC to IDC
It’s been three weeks since we returned to Nusa Lembongan, three weeks of lovely sun and socialising but more importantly three weeks of diving AND three weeks of no decompression sickness which is a big WHOOP WHOOP...
Every cloud…
After a delightful twenty four hour catching up pit stop with friends in Singapore and via Kuala Lumpur for me (long story) we landed back in England in the early hours of June 24th...
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...
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...
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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