Vela Luka, Croatia Bobby decided to give me a day off today. I was really looking forward to it since I had not the time to do the necessary things. I spent the day cleaning the kitchen and the bathroom in the staff house. Their […]
Category Archives: 02. Croatia
Day 30: Ready for the Descent
Vela Luka, Croatia I had to give dive leading another two tries today. It was with the same group of divers minus Dov because he’s going back to Israel. I had never been to the two sites. They’re called “Monk Seal Bay” and “Vranine.” Adam, […]
Day 29: The Blue Hole
Vela Luka, Croatia I had two dives today with guest diver Ton, Eric and Dov. Billy was the dive guide and I was to observe him dive leading. The first site that we dived at was called Blue Hole. It’s a really really beautiful site. […]
Day 28: 28 Days Later :)
Vela Luka, Croatia Finally! I’ve been waiting all this time to hit my 28th day so I can use the title “28 Days Later.” Hehe, what a geek! Today seems to be an ideal day to do a blog entry and a temperature check on […]
Day 27: Nudibranch
Vela Luka, Croatia Today was another full day which included shadowing Andy during his teaching of Open Water Course. It was quite painful as I was in the cold water for close to 6 hours and the 15-hour that I pulled the day before made […]
Day 26: First Night Dive
Vela Luka, Croatia I had a 15-hour workday, which went somewhat like this: arrived at the dive center at 7:30am brought the chairs, tables, benches, buckets to the outside of the dive center helped with loading the boat equipments get suited up helped loading the […]
Day 25: I’m Okay
Vela Luka, Croatia I’m fine and dandy, still alive yet barely kicking. This past week had been ridiculously busy. I finally experienced how Divemaster intern’s days are like: HECTIC! Compared to this, my old job as a designer at Music Choice was like a stroll in […]
Day 24: The First of the Gang to Die
Vela Luka, Croatia No, Sean didn’t die. I just want to use Morrissey’s song title as the post title :] But yeah, today was Sean’s last day. Per Andy’s suggestion, I should write a blog entry about each of the gang member. So here it […]
Day 23: To Build A Fire
Vela Luka, Croatia We had a BBQ at the staff house this evening since Sean will be leaving tomorrow. Interesting enough, all the shopping, preparation and cooking were done by the guys. I didn’t know my arse from my elbow when it comes to starting […]
Day 22: The Importance of Being Idle
Vela Luka – Korcula – Vela Luka, Croatia Yayyyyy!!! I got a day off today! Finally! After 12 days of 12-hour workdays!!! I was debating either to sleep in and rest up or to use it to explore other town on the island last night […]
Day 21: Hang Me Up to Dry
Vela Luka, Croatia What a disastrous day! I had to do my Rescue Diver in water scenario test today and although I passed, it was in the most unflattering way Tom taught me the first part of the course yesterday and then this morning, Sam, […]
Day 32: I’m on a Boat
Vela Luka, Croatia The first part of my day was spending time on our new boat “Hercules” giving its side tubings a wash, sanding, and new coat of paint. The sun was glaring and it was pretty much a 30 degree celcius day and I […]