Our Michelle, our divemaster trainee tried out a sidemount configuration in the pool with Instructor Markus in Bunaken today. It was a lot of fun to do some “out of air” skills, taking of one tank and continue diving with the remaining tank. We also did some finning techniques. The sidemound configuration originated amongst dry…
Imagine you are at the moment in life where you would be able to choose whatever you like to do, you do not have any responsibilities and could choose anything you want; what pops up in your mind? What would you love to do or experience? From land to sea In January this year, I…
We’ve had a little of everything this week in Amed, from the big to the small! Yue joined us from China to do both her Open Water and Advanced courses and by the time she left she’d not only learned to dive but had checked a lot of boxes. We saw 3 species of Octopus…
We have the dive site “Muka Kampung” adopted to dive and clean from debris regularly within Project Aware. This month ten guests and staff helped to clean the dive site. Unfortunately, the currents wash up the debris into the shallow part of the reef. Our divers picked up 10.8 kg of debris. Well done everybody…
IDC Bunaken Bunaken, north Sulawesi, the Liveaboard on land, the “retreat” for divers! Sounds like a perfect place where to go for an IDC and guess what, yes it is!On the 9th of February, we started our Instructor Development Course on this little paradise. Having one program a year here, it is always the…
Divemaster course is a really hard work to me as it deals with many tanks and equipment every day. Having a petite frame, these hard works can knock me out sometimes, nevertheless, it’s still a great experience. I have reviewed open-water skills in the pool with my instructor and learned some new techniques, such as…
Time is running fast when you are having a great time and that has been unfortunately so true for me. After the first three weeks of my Divemaster training on Bunaken, I really was not ready to leave for Nusa Lembongan. It was not easy all the time, I have learned a lot from my instructors…
Think of technical diving and a picture of a diver in black carrying a heavy twinset comes to mind – pretty similar to the picture here. But think of cave diving and that picture often changes to a sidemount diver. Both kinds of diving simply simply require different equipment. So far, so good, but what…