Category: Daily Blog Posts
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Diving to 40m for the first time… and seeing a F*CKING whale shark
Day 192! Words cannot accurately describe the crazy day of diving I had. But I’m sure going to try in this post! Not only was today my day to get certified to dive to 40m whenever I want, but also was the luckiest dive of my life (so far). The…
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Leading an open water course through Chumphon Pinnacle
Day 191! Another day, another dives! Today was another double boat day. Thankfully, it was 3 dives instead of 4 because I was going to be diving on the night dive as well as the morning dives. It was a long and exhausting day, but well worth it! It was…
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Leading Kit and I through a morning dive
Day 190! The countdown to day 200 starts now!! Today marked the first day of Kit and I hitting a morning dive, just us! It was a really cool morning with a lot of fun pictures taken too. I can’t wait to dive more with Kit, it’s going to be…
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Navigating a dive site without any instruction
Day 189! Well today’s the day! The first day I’ve done a dive with just my dive buddy and no instructor. It’s a big step in my diving process and it ended up being a couple incredible dives! There’s some cool dive photos as well with this one! We’re back…
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The craziest dive of my life – the stress test
Day 188! Apologizes in advance, there won’t be many pictures today. The dives we did weren’t picture worthy andddd I left my phone in my motorbike when I went onto the boat today. But more on that later. Today I had the morning off! So after a nice day off,…
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A decadent breakfast on my day off from diving
Day 187! It’s been 8 days since my last day off and I was very much needing one! As much as I’m loving diving every day, it’s exhausting work. So today, I chilled out, and enjoyed my day! Today was my day off, so I took a slow morning to…
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A day of fun dives and fun times
Day 186! Today was a mixed bag of fun, a little stress, and learning. I started my day off with some diving, had a class about diving, and then enjoyed my evening and night out with my friends! It ended up being an all around great day. I was back…
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Leading my first dive at my favorite dive site, White Rock
Day 185! Today was an awesome day! I had two incredible and beautiful dives this morning. The visibility was unreal and we saw some cool sea life. I also got to lead the second dive which went great! I also had time to run some errands too, it ended up…
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A strong current during the second day of assisting an open water course
Day 184! Sheesh! The current today ended up being pretty strong for Koh Tao standards. We had to spend a lot of our fun dive near the bottom of the ocean and wedging through rocks to avoid the current and use it to our advantage. But before that, I needed…
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Leading my first morning dive (assisting an open water course)
Day 183! Lots of course assisting today! Part of being a Dive Master is taking over some of the responsibilities for the instructor… and today that included leading one of Hectors morning dives! I was a bit nervous but excited to take on the challenge. My alarm went off at…
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