I started the advanced open water course on the 29th January. It's only a 2 day course and and if you do the course with SSI you dont have to do any homework or reading or tests, my kind of course!  There were 2 groups doing the advanced course at the same time so the first morning we all joined together. We were given an underwater compass (the same as a normal compass but filled with oil to prevent pressure from breaking it, and it's got a wrist strap too) a...

After my 4 days of diving, I had 3 days of chilling out before we planned to leave for Krabi. The day after our open water course finished me, Nath, Ole and Julien took a taxi-boat over to a small neighbouring island called Pulau Nang Yuan. We got there about 11ish after having brekkie at Big Blue 1 and as soon as we got there we starting walking uphil towards a 'view point' that our instructer, Iain, told us about. There was a fair few steps so it was pretty tir...

We chose to dive with Big Blue Diving because they had great views on tripadviser. And we also chose to learn to dive in Thailand because its the cheapest place in the world to learn to dive. From the word go, I had a great impression of Big Blue. Although I was half asleep from being part jet-lagged and having a crappy night sleep on an overnight train - we met our instructer, he gave us a free cup of iced juice and showed us to our room and I had a nap straigh...