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, […]
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Day 20: Something Vague
Vela Luka, Croatia Nothing much happened today besides me doing the written test for my Rescue Diver course and then went in the water to do three exercises: missing diver in the water panicked diver on surface tired diver on surface Today wasn’t a good […]
Day 19: Hello, My Name Is Elys
Vela Luka, Croatia I had been doing my Emergency First Responder (EFR) course for the past two days. Overall, the course was fairly easy since it’s pretty repetitive. I must have repeated this line “Hello, my name is Elys. I’m an emergency responder. May I […]
Day 18: Midnight Sun
Vela Luka, Croatia I’ve done my fair share of weird stuffs in my life but this is weirder still. As I’m writing this right now, I’m sitting on an unlit pathway by the cliff, watching a local prom party across the opposite side of the […]
Day 17: Songbird
Vela Luka, Croatia I love animals, but this bird and his mates I want dead. Everyday, around 5am, they start chirping. Anyway, I didn’t get much chance to take much photos today. The two that I’m posting today I took from our front yard. Also, I […]
Day 16: Going for Gold
Vela Luka, Croatia I started my Advanced Open Water Course today. Did three dives at The Aquarium, Smuggler’s Cove and Seahorse Bay. The first dive was for AWARE course, the second for Drift Dive and the last for Underwater Navigation. The dives were pretty easy […]
Day 15: Everyday Is Like Sunday (I Wish…)
Vela Luka, Croatia Strange day today… Bobby pretty much told us interns to be tourists for the day. The reason was that some of our instructors were doing a Croatian dive license / work permit course so we have a few Croatian officials at the […]
Day 14: Underneath a Distant Moon
Vela Luka, Croatia I finally went into the water today! We didn’t have much to do at the dive center in the afternoon, so Bobby told Sean and I to suit up and go for two 20-min dives in the front of the dive center. […]
Day 13: Waves, Waves, Waves
Vela Luka, Croatia By my third day of doing boat duties, many parts of my body began to refuse to listen. I guess propping up the tanks with my already bruised and swollen left thigh didn’t help either. Somehow though, I managed. (Probably because of […]
Day 12: Wild Wild East
Vela Luka, Croatia Another day of boat duties with the French clients. My collection of bruises doubled as well. Billy, the dive instructor/leader, taught me a bunch of things on the boat but the coolest of all was to sit right in front of it […]
Day 11: Ahoy, Mate!
Vela Luka, Croatia I went in to the dive center at 7:30am to find out that I was set to go on boat duties with seven client divers from France. I was psyched! The task was tough however. By the time the boat left shore […]
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 […]