Night Diving WOW! Oh and im a Rescue Diver :-)

PADI Open Water - Check

PADI Advanced Open Water - Check
Emergency First Resonder - Check

PADI Rescuediver - Check

PADI Divemaster - Not quite there yet.

Woah, time really flies by here. One of the few indications that I´ve been here for quite some time, is the fact that my pale (practically fluorescent) butt, appears whiter by the minute, whilst the rest of my body is getting a healthy tan!

"Blog icebreaker" - Check!!

I finished my PADI Advanced Open Water this week. Had some truly mind shaking dives. Especially the night dive was one to remember.

We got up around 04:00, zombie walked down to the shop and arrived at 05:15, prepared the kits and drove off into the night. 
Im quite sure that my brain was still sleeping this whole time - but it certainly came back to life the minute i back rolled off "Cometa Chica", and into the chilly blue.

We all meet up by the front of the boat, and began our slow descent into what seemed like nothing at all. The only source of light was our torches and, besides from the bubbly sound in my ears, the water was pretty much as quiet as it was dark.

At one point i actually forgot that I was diving, and that the soft pressure I felt all over, was actually caused by water. I felt like I was flying, weightlessly through space.

As we got deeper, the darkness seemed thicker and more dense.

All of the sudden, out of the darkest of dark, sporadicly illuminated by our torches, came the very stuff that many an old sea-dogs tale is based upon: The biggest Ray that I´ve ever seen, swooped elegantly towards us. 
At moments like this, when you fortunate enough to be around to see these amazing sights, its hard to believe your eyes!

Besides from my night dive, I had an additional 4 adventure dives: Peak Performance buoyancy dive , Navigation dive, Deep dive and Fish identification dive.

The peak Performance Buoyancy dive, consisted of some fairly easy exercises  hoovering for a couple of minutes and swimming through a couple of hoops without adjusting your buoyancy through your BCD.

The navigation dive went great as well. Measuring kick cycles and navigating around yellow mountain in squares and triangles. (What's up with these people and shapes?)

The deep dive was a pretty cool experience. It didnt really feel different that your ordinary 10-18 meters dives, but just the fact that you have been down to around 30 meters, is an achievement in itself - in my book at least!

Before the deep dive, we were presented with a few small tasks that we were to complete while Pete was timing us. Tasks like; write your mothers maiden name backwards, some simple fractions and fit these different shaped (there it was again) blocks into the right of a box. 
At the bottom we had to solve the same tasks again on time, to see if we were affected by nitrogen narcosis (A syndrome occurring when the pressure of the water compresses the air in your tank, and therefore letting you inhale more nitrogen molecules pr. breath than at the surface, causing you to go to "lala-land") Although happy that I wasnt affected at all, I still feel like I missed out on a psychedelia underwater experience (nah just kidding) (Or am I) (Yes i definately am) (Perhaps).
The fifth and final adventure dive, was the fish identification dive. Not much to say really. A dive at yellow mountain equipped with a slate intended for writing up the all the different names of the fish I saw.

Sam left us this week - So now Lydia is next in line to rise to the status of PADI Divemaster. This means that she is doing more predive briefings and leading a few dives here and there. 
We went to Abades one day and Lydia was leading. I think she did an amazing job! 
She lead us in and out of that dive site, taking crazy routes and I really dont know how she could find her way around the place.

After thrashing the place in three dives we headed down to the marina and cleaned the kits.

This week was also the week I completed my PADI Rescue diver course. 
After chewing my way through the big sleeping pill that is my rescue diver manual, we did some confined water exercises. 
It was pretty fun to simulate being a panicked diver, trying to climb on top of the other interns rushing to help me.

We went through procedures for handling everything from panicked divers to tired divers and unconscious divers both at the surface and at the bottom.

A few days later, we headed up to yellow mountain to do the open water scenarios. 
Up until now, the things that I have learned have been things that were nice to be able to do and know, simply because I enjoy doing it. But the rescue diver course have taught me things that makes me able to, potentially, save somebody's life if such a situation ever occurs.

Thats it from me for now, more next week.

Dennis (PADI Rescue Diver)

How not to mess about on the Rocks!

The third week passed by and that so fast, that I have to STOP. BREATH. THINK first, before I start writing. 

This should become my motto not even when I come in unforeseeable, difficulty and sometimes maybe even life threatening situations along my diver career, as well when I'm acting in some situations in my private time.
That would have prevented me from a stupid accident I had this week. 
But let us start right from the beginning....  

After a couple of days off not feeling very well i started the week very, very, very early because we went out for a night dive.

Andreas, Dennis, Sam, Lydia, Pete, Alice and customers who have been doing their PADI Advanced DiveCourse with us, went in the water at around six o'clock in the morning. 

I can tell that everybody enjoyed the dive, even me who had to stay on boat cover. I saw a beautiful sunrise.... the horizon turned from dark black into a variety of colours from purple, red, orange and yellow in just a couple of minutes and everything was still so silent and relaxed,- beeeeeeeaaaaaauuuuuutiful. I mean, how often are you enjoying this kind of scenery? Me not often, I just love sleeping :)!

After this first dive, we went to a shallower place, so that Dennis, Andreas and Anne could show the last skills of their Advanced course. They had to hover, what means as much as floating in a meditative kind of position under water without moving your arms and legs, than they had to establish proper buoyancy and swim through two hoops, that Lydia and me were holding under the water and so on. 
They did all really good and passed the PADI Advanced Course!!!! Well done.

Than in the afternoon tired, but exhilarated by the early adventure, the chaos took over! 

We went all together to the shore just to enjoy our company and some music and Andreas, Mahmoud and me were walking a little bit further out to the ocean side on some rocks. 
The waves and the eddy water was quite heavy splashing over the rocks, but we were in the mood to go further out to explore the site a little bit more. What shall I tell, I didn't watch out at one point, tried to pass a section of rocks where the water was running across very heavy and high and the next thing I remember is that a wave was coming dragged me down over a couple of rocks. 
I heard the guys shouting and was luckily capable of holding on to a rock, so that I didn't get dragged further down in the ocean. 
I SURVIVED, YEAH :) with a couple of bruises and scratches, which got unfortunately infected over the following days. 

Pete has planned our Rescue course confine sessions, that I didn't want to miss, so although my foot was really sore, I practiced the skills that we need to full fill our PADI Rescue Diver course. 
We were towing responsive, tired divers at the surface in different styles, learned how to handle a panicked diver, self-rescue skills, how to bring an unresponsive, drowning diver to the surface and provide him with rescue breathes. 

This two days were for me so far the most interesting days, because the skills that we have learned, could save a life one day and gave us resources in hand to react in difficult situations without loosing the overview. We all passed the open water skills and the written exam and can call ourselves PADI Rescue Divers from now on!!!!

The next morning we went in the pool in the morning with Alice and practiced our demonstration skills, so that we will be able one day to assist Dive Instructors giving courses.

In the evening I finally gave up waiting for a miracle with my foot and went to the medical center. They diagnosed a  bad infection, set me on antibiotics and forbid me to get even close to a pool or the ocean for at least seven days *buhuuuu*.

More soon.

Warning - Diving is hard work!

The second week just started, but I can tell, that to be a customer at a dive center isn't comparable at all with working in one. 
I'm physically soooooooo exhausted. I'm a sporty person and three month before I started the Divemaster internship, i went at least two times a week in a gym to extend my condition, but we are swimming 400 metres, carrying a lot of heavy equipment around to the car, out of the car, in the boat, out of the boat in the car..................... 
I go to bed at around 8 pm with the sandman and fall asleep like a stone, but it's 100% worth the fun and experience!!!!!!

I stayed at the shop together with Sam and the rest of the interns went on a dive. I swam 400 metres in the morning what is definitely more fun than after two dives and lunch. I swim 400 metres in around 8 to 9 minutes, so can be pretty sure to pass the final swim test.

On the next day I went with Pete, Alice, Sam and the English customers, that were already on a couple of other dives with us, on a deep dive to a new dive site called El Delfin. 
We didn't set the anchor there, just rolled in the water and got picked up later by giving sign with a surface marker buoy, what I have never seen so far. 

This buoy is rolled together, so small and comfortable to carry around under water and as well attached to a reel so that you don't loose it. Pete filled the buoy with air of his regulator and it floated to the surface where it sticks out of the water, so that the boat guard can see it and other boat driver can also recognize that there are divers in the water. 

The second dive led us to the dive spot Pequene Valle, which was beautiful because of a huge fish school of approximately around 50 fishes that were sliding over the bottom of the ocean and rocks like in a beautiful studied performance. Apart from that I was still tired and exhausted.

A little bit more rested I started the next day. It is nice to see that all the interns are getting faster and faster with the daily duties like preparing the kit in the morning. Now we can more focus on things that have to do with actual diving practice.
I went on a shore dive this day with Melissa, Lydia who was leading her first dive and Dennis and Andreas. I brought my camera, what always makes me really excited because I love it to make photos and it is actually the second time that I practice with my underwaterbox. I made a couple of pictures that are really nice. 
My biggest problem under water is to stay steady when I want make a picture, because their is always a little bit of a drift that is moving you around, except when you are lying on a sand pool, but that might bring the problem that your visibility gets crappy because you stir up the sand. I am looking forward for more chances to bring my camera!

Lydia was leading both of the dives we did there. The second one even without Melissa and she did well and can be very proud of herself.
Without the guarding eyes of Melissa we even did a couple of fun pictures underwater..... "HELLO MELISSA :))))) " maybe shown on this page later :).

FINALLLLLLY a day off. But no time for actual rest, because I am still behind with my homework. I started reading the Open Water Manual and AdvancedManual as well, because my first two certifications are so long ago, that I have to refresh my knowledge. In combination with the ongoing education for the Rescue Diver and Divemaster it is so much more work, but on the other hand everything makes so much more sense as well and because of that more fun to learn and practice and experience!

Pete and Alice took me and Mahmoud on a navigation dive to Alien rock. We dived there before, but I have to admit that I have never spend actual thoughts about my orientation of this dive site so far, because I am still so busy with myself under water. So that was the dive we actually had to spend attention. 

Mahmoud and me separated our jobs under water. If you want make a map of a new dive site, you have to measure the different depth you are diving through, the brezels of your directions ( one of a divers standard equipments is a compass for orientation ) and the distances that you measure with your fin kicks. We shared the informations, but were drawing the maps both by ourselves and the results were.... quite surprising :). 
I am sorry that I couldn't make a picture *hihihi*.

On Tuesday Mahmoud and me had a day off again and catched up in the morning for the homeworks, that we got the evening before from Pete. We had to write down an emergency action plan for a special dive site, that includes the fastest way to get a dive victim to medical professionals, numbers to reach them and other medical centres that are more specialist in dive accidents and so on. I am looking forward to actually lead a dive on this site!!!

Back again and we were all together in the shop to practice our first response skills, including rescue breath and CPR on a unconscious victim and how to care for a person with bleeding injuries. 
We had a lot of fun simulating the different situations in role plays. I am still asking myself how Sandra alias Sam :) could actually appear in the dive shop with multiple bleedings after "hesheit" went water skiing in the marina ???????????

Today I felt so sick in the morning *sobsob* that I didn't go to the shop. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day!!!

PADI Rescue Divers and injured friends!

We all had a couple of times to practice our PADI Divemaster skills in the pool during this week.
We always have a laugh when Andreas practices the recovery of the mask, he feels so uncomfortable opening his eyes underwater but I keep telling him to practice smiling underwater first before trying to practice the skill!

On the other hand, Angela had an accident the other day. It was the day she was on boat cover during Dennis and Andreas' adventure night dive. I passed by after their return and we all went to the beach. It was a very sunny and warm day, we all got excited and Andreas, Angela and I decided to walk on some rocky bay moving into the water. Andreas and I wanted to jump into a further rock a little less than 2 meters away with crashing waves in the middle. We tried figuring out the pattern of the waves but couldn't so Angela advised that it was dangerous and better to just go back which we did. But unfortunately she was swept away by one of the waves at first it was funny then the situation got serious but she was lucky to have some scratches with only one wound.

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We all started the week by successfully finishing our Emergency First Responder courses from the previous week so it was time to get started with our PADI Rescue course dives. One thing for sure, the Rescue course certainly comes in the right timing. After finishing your adventure dives in the PADI Advanced Open Water course, you get very well familiar with concepts in diving like buoyancy control and you get the chance to really be able to fine tune it very well during the dives.
Good buoyancy control indeed makes diving so much easier and fun but it's a skill among several others used to take care of yourself underwater. But diving is not an individual sport.
Mastering self rescue skills definitely comes in handy.
But ever wondered what if one of the group is in trouble?
How to deal with him if he is tired? Or panicking?
Or responsive? Non responsive? On the surface or underwater? How far he is from shore/boat?
These are all questions that make a huge difference between being prepared and knowing exactly what to do based on your knowledge and training or being helpless in the situation.

So we took off for our first confined rescue dive sessions. I was surprised how difficult it is even when you are very academically prepared to apply what you have learned in real life situations.
The idea is to really try to make the scenarios as real as possible and try to forget that it is actually a scenario in order to get the most out of it and see how you would think and react if being subject to the situation.
Sam was my buddy and I feel I was lucky because he had the exact same mindset, we practiced several techniques to deal with different situations until I felt comfortable and pleased by my performance.
Sam was nearly a PADI Divemaster by then and he was very happy with my performance as well, so that was a really good thing. It was a really fun day we all felt more confident with our newly acquired skills.

It was time for our open water rescue dives and over all evaluation. I had to tow Sam a relatively long distance but I was horribly slow because I find it very difficult to swim on the surface with fins, so this is something I will focus on improving the coming week.
Other than that, we practiced the same skills again, learned from new mistakes, learned how to do knots and that was it.
We went back to the shop, I did some reading in the Divemaster book and during debrief we were told we are all qualified PADI Rescue divers. It was really a very good feeling, it felt new.

I had 4 days diving this week. The first was with Ann, Alice, Melissa, Sam and Lydia we saw a very beautiful starfish, Sam showed me some cleaner shrimps and sexy shrimps and there was a small ray. Suddenly a current started to show up then after a curve it became so strong we were. Ot going anywhere, so we changed direction and made it a drift dive then Alice raised her SMB to signal Pete to come pick us up on the boat. I also went to Abades with Dennis, Andreas and Lydia was leading the dives. Lydia did really well choosing different paths for all the dives to make it more interesting.

We all went out on a farewell dinner night out for Sam. It was great having him around as he was very helpful and practically perfect. One thing for sure, he is going to be missed around here!

Gnasher the Diving Wonder Dog, aka Andreas

Hey yall

Now it's time for another exciting blog from the very one and only Andreas, Perry, Poochie, Gnasher and 'erry, or any other Nickname the Team keep giving me!
Due to Melissa, Pete and common Dutch language I've had the pleasure of getting four new names in only a week and a half. Personally Gnasher sounds the coolest, but it's probably due to the fact that I don't know who the real Gnasher is. 
Except for the obvious confusion I meet whenever somebody calls one of my names, I really start to get the hang of it at this place of hard work, learning, wonders, adventures, downsides and upsides. 
The work is getting easier because of the growing knowledge and confidence in what I'm doing is right. 
Like assembling a customers kit, or even worse, Pete or Alice's kits.

I really feel I'm learning a lot and having some great experiences both on dives and off work. The last dive I had previous to this blog was a dive at Poco Naufragio which was incredible. We sat on the bottom playing with a Common Ray while  surrounded by fish of all sizes and shapes. 
From Ornate Wrasse and Zebra Bream, to Barracudas and Parrot fish. After a while playing with the ray, we got further away and Alice fed Black Morays and FangTooths while we were watching  Simply Incredible. 
Next dive that day were at Starfish Bay. A site normally known for the massive amount of, yeah you guessed it, Starfish. 
Well we saw a lot of starfish, but due to the amount of Black Sea urchins there ain't that many any more.
Well not to bother because me and Dennis brought our knives and have a 'Confirmed Sea Urchin Kill Scoreboard' on our fridge and he's in pole position, so we had a little bit of fun "cleaning" and watching all the different fish that comes with. 
Though it took a bit of convincing myself into doing this, since I have no previous history of genocide or anything like that, and spend a year before coming here working for Greenpeace, But still the Black Sea Urchins are a plague here and have no natural enemies. The rest of the dive we were looking at all the beautiful and funny small creatures.

This week I've also had my first shore dives with Melissa. I really like these dives because they are so different from the boat dives I've done the other days. I especially liked one dive we had at a site i don't remember the name of, I think Las Eras ,but there was a big pipeline going from shore to... Yeah well... Cambodia. 

Anyway, between every concrete block along the pipeline it was packed with fish, crabs and different kinds of critters. I saw some of the biggest Arrow Crabs I've ever seen, the biggest Trumpet fish ever ever seen and the biggest cuttlefish ever!

Apart from all the diving we got a day off on Saturday  despite being exhausted, hungover and just plain tired, both me and my roomy Dennis committed ourself (on our own initiative) to climb Red Rock, Punta Roja, with Mahmoud and Lydia. 
Mahmoud being prepared in a way that not even Indiana Jones or Mr. Dundee could have done better, Lydia turned up in flip flops and with a lunchbox consisting of ice cream.
In the end we made it to the top, and despite the fact that we were tired me and Mahmoud decided to the some real climbing on the cliffs facing the water. A real manly experience.

On a completely different topic, we all just passed our EFR (Emergency FirstResponse) course today. It was all in great fun with all of us interns trying to save each other from nearly every possible incident and injury we could get into, and Pete consistently educating us switching between the real first aid course and all of his stories from 'back in 'Nam' or whatever war he was in.

Well that must be all from me for this time.

Hasta luego - Andreas (Perry, Poochie, Gnasher 'Erry)

PADI Rescue Course. EFR and of course more diving

What a week, what a week , oh you should have been there.

My week started with 2 dives at Las Eras, where I have never been before. The visibility during the dives wasn’t the best and there was a little current, especially on the first dive. 
But I enjoyed both dives. I think the second dive on the pipeline was really fascinating.

Next day I had 2 dives, the first at Poco Naufragio and the 2nd at Starfish Bay. I really enjoyed the dives, Alice was leading the dive and we had a very nice customer with us, Ann, who really enjoyed herself during the dives as well.
At Poco Naufragio we saw a Common Ray and I especially liked the two Black Moray Eels and the Fangtooth Moray who where together, and Alice was feeding them which looked pretty scary to me.

Wednesday was definitely a fun day and we learned a lot as well. 
We started at 10:00 o'clock which made everyone very happy because we didn't have to prepare kits and tanks in the morning because we were not going diving, we had our EFR(Emergency First Response) course. 
Pete was instructing Dennis, Andreas, Mahmoud, Angela and me, and even Sam was there even though he already is a Divemaster since this week. 
We had a lot of fun, especially during the scenario’s Pete gave us to do, I think the best one was when we all came back from our 5 minute break and Sam was laying on the flour and Canadian Dave was laying on a bench and nobody was responding to that because we all thought they were just laying there for no reason!
So we were sent back outside while they told us this was a real scenario. 

We went back in and lucky for us we saved Sam, but Canadian Dave is still recovering from the fact that Andreas was giving him mouth to mouth breathing. 
After our fun EFR morning we had lunch and went to the swimming pool to do some swimming. I finally broke my 11 minutes, only with 3 seconds, but I broke my 11 minutes. 
It’s a shame that Alice or Pete wasn't timing because now it doesn't count for real. 
And in the evening I practiced kit assemble and disassemble with Dennis.

Thursday I had my day off so I cleaned my entire apartment and I did some shopping because I invited the interns that were working that day for lunch at my place. So when Dennis, Andreas and Mahmoud walked in they didn’t even recognize my apartment any more because it was so clean. 
Then I made them some lunch which they really enjoyed, lucky for me. Angela was sick that day so unfortunately she missed our fun lunch. But I saved  fruit salad that I made for our vegetarian Angela and she ate it in the evening after we practiced kit assemble and disassemble with Dennis and Andreas.

Friday was really, really exciting because I had my first night dive ever. I was a little scared and I was so nervous, but everything went all right. Actually it was really beautiful and I just tried to enjoy myself as much as possible and just look at the fish and follow the group. I really liked the Parrot fish, I saw one with really bright colors and it was so beautiful. I liked the plankton as well, when you move your hand in the water you can see them light up which is really pretty.

Saturday really was a messy day. We made so many silly mistakes on everything! So I hope everyone that was working that day, including me, just learned from the mistakes we made so it won’t happen again. 
Apart from that I really liked my dive at Pequeño Valle even though it was a pretty short dive because there was a little current which became stronger while we moved on. 
And now the best part of the day was that we practised Rescue skills in the marina, and that was so much fun. It just becomes so much more real when you practice them, especially with the panicked diver. 
While practising the panicked diver I found out that it’s more difficult than I thought. I started practising with Alice and she started easy on me just being a little panicked diver, but then it got real and I found out that a panicked diver can be pretty, pretty dangerous.

After doing the rescue skills we washed the kits and nobody know how it happened but I lost one of my fins, and the bad part was that it was the fin with my mask and snorkel in it. So that situation made me a little sad, as soon as we found out that my fin was missing Dennis jumped in the water but he didn't find my fin back.

Sunday was a relaxed day. I took Dennis, Andreas and Mahmoud to the swimming pool to practice our skills and I could really see that the boys are improving on their skills and I could practice at the same time helping them. 
Unfortunately Angela couldn't join us because she had a little injury on her leg/foot. We washed the cars as well and that was a lot of fun. And we did our 400 meter swim and this time I really wished that that the time counted because my time was 10:22 which is my fastest time ever.
But I'm really happy with my time and I'm just hoping that I can do it again, or maybe even better.
Oh and the best part of today, Mahmoud went diving in the marina under supervision from Melissa to find my fin and he found my fin, my mask and my snorkel back!

So I’m really happy and Mahmoud is the hero of the day.

Up to w

Good Diving, hard Diving and saying goodbye to Diving

The big thing for me was last week I got lost when leading a dive, and it felt like my perfect record of performance and effort had been ruined. I did slightly redeem myself by leading the dive later in the week to my usual incredible standard. However, it felt like I still had to prove that I’m still the outstanding young individual that everyone here has come to know and love.

So I decided that to do this I would offer to lead Las Eras, which I’d never lead before, obviously this would be done under Melissa’s supervision. So we jumped in and swam out to the usual point of descent.
What I’m trying to say is that up until minute two of the dive I was fine, just after this everything fell apart. Obviously none of what followed was my fault, we were battling against some of the worst conditions anyone has ever seen at Las Eras, or at least that’s my opinion.
There was an incredibly strong current and visibility must of dropped to at least five meters, then when I went in the wrong direction I didn’t really help the situation, so by around minute five Melissa had taken over. After this the dive went fine, although it was a very short dive due to such extreme conditions.
Ann who was on this dive with us as well as the interns Andreas, Kevin, and Lydia got to see all sorts of exciting fish like a tiny Octopus and fabulously colourful Parrot fish or incredibly long Trumpet fish.

As I’ve undoubtedly mentioned before the second dive at Las Eras is to the Pipeline. We saw Octopus and other interesting fish on this dive such as Blue-finned Damsels. The second dive was much more of a success and we ended it a little early in case we had trouble with a current, on the way back we did get to see a small Common Ray hiding under a rock.

Next up we took the Ann to Poco Naufragio, with the simple intention of playing with the Rays like we had done the week before. This time the big Rays didn’t come out to play for very long, Stumpy appeared briefly, but it was mainly the small Rays that entertained us. Apparently, the Rays took such a liking to us that one of them decided to stay with us for the length of the dive. The three Morays were in their usual space, which is always good to see. Next up on the agenda was Starfish Bay with lots of interesting fish to see like Lightfoot Crabs, two-striped bream and obviously many many starfish.

One hundred dives! The big milestone, or so I think anyway. To celebrate I didn’t do the dive naked, but instead did a night dive, not that I had much option as it was part of my Divemaster requirements. Pete lead the dive and what I did see entertained me, especially the phosphorescence that when you wave your hand it will begin to glow and if you have your torch off it is particularly pretty. There was also lots of particularly interesting fish on this dive such as Atlantic damsels and Ornate wrass and even the odd Pufferfish .

Since I’ve been here I hear a lot of people talk about putting their hand near a cleaner shrimp and letting it clean you, I’d never done this before until we went to Pequene Valle for Ann’s final dive. I was  happy as it really is an experience to let a shrimp clean your hand. Obviously there was lots of fish and crabs on the dive, brightly coloured arrow crabs, plentiful sexy shrimp sitting around one sea anemone, even a slick moving wide-eyed flounder.

The other interns who apparently have been slacking finally got around to doing their rescue course this week. I was given the opportunity to join them and help out, I remember how fun the practical aspects were when I did mine back in England so figured it must be more fun when you’re not shivering or can see more than three meters in front of you.  I especially enjoyed doing the panicked diver skills and trying to pull someone’s mask off.

I am prematurely going home so unfortunately this is my last blog. All of which is kind of depressing as it means I’m heading back to five degree’s being the peak of the day and frost on the windscreen in the morning. It also means I’m leaving behind sun bathing, swimming outdoors and wearing shorts.

I should probably do a brief summary of what I’ve learnt, and it really will be brief, as lets face it I pretty much turned up perfect. However, the main thing I guess is that if something is worth doing it’s worth doing well, and it really applies to everything.

The internship really is what you make it, and if you want to get the most out of it you have to make sure you put everything you can into it.

Hopefully it won’t be long till I’m back here, sort of relaxing again.

For now its Adios.

Sam (Popeye)