Week One – Natacha’s Divemaster course in Amed
I’ve been in Amed for about two weeks now, and a few days ago have officially started my Divemaster course. So much is clear already – it’ll be a busy time!
The rise of the Giant Frogfish in North Lombok
This week here on the Gili’s, North Lombok we have been seeing a rise in Giant Frogfish. The first spot we had was a few weeks ago at Hans Reef and then nothing, but then this week we had a spot of this black variation at Gili Meno slope followed by a Red variation at…
Part 4 DMT Tram: Bare feet and bare all
My last and final week of the divemaster trainee was in Lembongan, a small island across from Bali. The switch was a little unnatural at first but turned out to be an invaluable learning experience. Guiding guests diving in current, higher guests turn around, completely different conditions and aquatic life. Indeed, on our dive yesterday…
The Seemingly Strange Sea Cucumbers
This week in Lembongan… An often over looked sea creature by experienced divers and a creature that our guides rarely point out. But very often while teaching PADI Open Water courses or diving with first time divers we get the full finger point and a shrug of the shoulders when passing by these strange sea…
Thanks to the DMTs in Lembongan
This week in Lembongan… Was the end of our 3 Divemaster trainee’s time in Lembongan. Ben and Nicole were with us for just over 6 weeks. Ben came already certified as a Rescue diver and Nicole still needed to complete her Advance course and Rescue. After 2 weeks of training for Nicole and some fun…
Part III: Tram road to become a divemaster
Today, I celebrated my 100th dive and the 3rd week of my divemaster training. Yeepee! Waking up at 5am to go to a dawn dive! That’s when you know you are really a diver. It was well worth it. The sunrise was bathing the sky in a soft pink color while the remnant of last…
Elongated Worm In the Gilis, North Lombok
This week up here in the north Gilis, Lombok we saw our first ever large elongated worm. In the reef creature identification book, it is the same family as the Bobbit worm but still classed as undetermined. The scientific name is Eunice.
DMT Tram “The Business of Diving”
Divemaster trainee Tram – Week 2 with The Business of Diving Chapter 7 of the divemaster manual has this sentence: “Being a PADI divemaster trainee, you are in the transformation business”. Hahaha, it couldn’t ring a louder bell to me. Here I thought I was special, not doing the divemaster to start a career in…