October 3rd, 2009 by Boris | Category: Articles | Continent: Asia | Country: Indonesia | City: Gili Trawangan
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Following on from the last three parts, today I have a little anecdote in two parts where things suddenly went wrong.
Jaques came into my office on Gili Trawangan to book a dive. I checked his credentials, sized him up, took his money and signed him up for a dive at Manta Point the next morning. He hadn't dived for almost a year, but refused the offer of a little refresher. Fair enough. He seemed to be very confident and let's not forget that a refresher plus a dive is the same price as...
September 29th, 2009 by Boris | Category: Articles | Continent: Asia | Country: Thailand | City: Koh Samui
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Welcome back to part 3 of 5 in this series. All names have been changed to protect the privacy of my former students. Make sure to read the first and second parts as well and subscribe to our RSS feed if you haven't done so already.
Teaching kids how to dive was one of the most rewarding experience during my life as a dive instructor. Usually they're not afraid of anything, but have enough respect of these new surroundings to do as they're told. Brutus was different. A little 12 year old...
September 24th, 2009 by Boris | Category: Articles | Continent: Asia | Country: Thailand | City: Koh Samui
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This is part 2 of my little series of stories that happened to me while working as a dive instructor in Southeast Asia. Again, all names have been changed, but the story is true! If you would like to know how to become a dive instructor, then please read my roadmap.
Finally, I was a dive instructor. It had cost me a lot of money and nerves. I had already been offered a job on Koh Samui, while still being busy studying for my Instructor Examination on Koh Tao in Thailand. I was full of ideals...
September 21st, 2009 by Boris | Category: Articles | Continent: Asia | Country: Indonesia | City: Gili Trawangan
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As a follow up to my roadmap to becoming a dive instructor I now want to share a few stories that, in some form, could happen to you if you do decide to go that way. I have changed all names to protect the privacy of the students and/or dive schools involved. All stories are true!
Erica was a German woman of around 50 years and she had booked a three-day open water course with me on Gili Trawangan. On the first day she already arrived about 1,5 hours late. The first thing she said to me,...
January 25th, 2008 by Boris | Category: Articles
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Everybody who has been travelling for a bit longer knows that eventually there comes a time when all that saved up money doesn't amount to that much anymore. You've probably seen it coming and acted on it by having rice and sweet chili sauce three times a day, all washed down with a yummy glass of water. The times when you look at your bank account grow longer in the hopes that the problem will just disappear. Then you realize that the first step to solving your problem is to acknowledge it,...
October 16th, 2007 by Boris | Category: Photos
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Bandas underwater world is just unbelievably stunning. The coral is still intact and there are fish everywhere. Among other marine life you can see sharks and turtles, great barraccuda, dog tooth tuna, clown triggerfish, squid and napoleon wrasses while just snorkling. The walls, that start just a few meters off the beaches are so deep you can't see the bottom, not even when you have 50 m visibility and freedive down to 25 m! Diving must be awesome there!! While I was there the one dive school...
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