First Open Water Dives!! Today I was up bright and early again ready for a morning of dive theory followed by our exam and then in the afternoon; out on the boat to do our first Open Water dives. The class was actually quite interesting and the exam was actually a little bit challenging. Joined by two other new Open Water Divers we setup out gear, did a quick swim test then boarded the boat for our first dive site - Little Bight. Unfortunately the good mask I had...

Dive Course Day 2! I woke up very early this morning and got organized for our second full day of class. At 9:30 we headed up to the classroom and had a review of lastnights homework and then given a few more videos to watch and some booklets to full out. I was starting to feel more confident until we got to nitrogen levels in blood which involved lots of mathematical equations. Around 1pm we were all done and I went down to Parrots dock in the hope to find some ...

Dive School 101!! Today is the first day of real class so we were all up early having our breakfast out on the verandah whilst watching the sun come up. Class started at 7:30am and we were straight into the videos and answering questions about safety and equipment setup for scuba diving. The movies were very boring and actually quite an overload of information and had me more nervous then excited to try this scuba diving thing. At 11am we broke for a quick lunch ...

Dive School 101!! Today is the first day of real class so we were all up early having our breakfast out on the verandah whilst watching the sun come up. Class started at 7:30am and we were straight into the videos and answering questions about safety and equipment setup for scuba diving. The movies were very boring and actually quite an overload of information and had me more nervous then excited to try this scuba diving thing. At 11am we broke for a quick lunch ...

New Apartment!! It was tough getting up this morning after such a massive night but we were up early ready for our 10am class. Before going to class we headed to the supermarket and bought some things for the house like toilet paper, oil, salt, coffee and some things for dinner. It was then time for our first dive class which involved a very hot classroom and watching dive instruction films. The power kept going off (which happens constantly here) and in the end ...