Best Dive Ever?.............................. Probably :-)

This week started on a low for me this week, I had boat cover.

When I wasn't sitting in the middle of the boat sea sick, I’d be having stern hand gestures with inconsiderate French divers who were anchoring too close to our boat.

Luckily for me this week got considerably better as the week went on.

The first dives of this week was with Turtles, it really tickled my fancy so I had delayed my day off so that I could go. Definitely worth it. The first of the two dives was with the friendly Turtle, it was obviously used to being fed by other dive schools and thus spent a lot of time coming incredibly close, so much so that the Turtle would touch you, or its fins would hit my regulator hose.

The second dive was just as good if I’m honest, the next Turtle wasn't quite as interested in us but more so in the cotton spinner it was attempting to eat. In fact the Turtle was so oblivious to us being there that Melissa was able to clean the bits of line and plant off it. Two of the best dives I've had since being here.

Even when we weren’t looking for Turtles, there’s plenty of other things to see, the very bright blue Sea Anemone  or the incredibly large Trumpet fish. Saying that I’m very easy to please and even the Blue Finned Damsels that are a dime a dozen are still nice to see and just as colourful and impressive as when I first saw them.

My day off! Finally! Really wasn’t half as exciting as I planned it to be. I ended up spending it sleeping and working on my Divemaster book. That is literally it, I have nothing else to say about it, sad I know.

Next up, Poco Naufragio. Unfortunately for me and Lydia we were restricted to 18 meters as she hadn't quite finished her PADI Advanced course yet, but we still got an incredible view, others on the dive were Alice and a returning customer called Matt, whom is very bubbly and has a weird obsession with Sexy Shrimp. They went down a bit deeper than us and got to play with a Common Eagle Ray, it was swimming around them and it looked so comfortable around divers, which is just something I’m not so use to.

I don’t know why I’m complaining about not being able to get close to the Ray, the shelf that is at 18 meters, has a massive array of fish and lots to see. There’s bream, parrot fish, star fish and morays, all of which is easily enough to keep me entertained for the duration of a dive.

The final few dives of the week was with two customers named Anna and Thomas. Tom was doing his scuba review whilst Anna was starting her journey to PADI Open Water diver. The first dives of the day were in the pool and I got to assist Pete instruct the first confined dive with Anna. When I say assist I really mean prop up Anna in case she falls over, but it is great fun to see someone instruct the courses.

Once the pool dives were over we headed out to Yellow Mountain for a couple of dives, both went very well, and Anna has since completed all her open water dives with just the exam to pass before she is fully qualified.

That’s it for this week, I've now been here over two weeks and it has flown by, looking a head to another six more weeks of hard graft and hopefully good dives.

Sam ~ aka Popeye

1st Week and almost 19!

I just had my first week and I’m sitting with my laptop writing my First blog ever.

I will start with introducing myself. My name is Lydia and I’m 18 (almost 19) years young. I’m from Holland and started my Divemaster internship as a PADI Open Water Diver. 

It’s my first time here in Tenerife and I’m really exited about being here. I started diving in Turkey with my brother , and we also went diving in Egypt.

In my opinion, the first week here is a lot to learn and to remember. Lucky for me, the other intern Sam , who is already a Padi Rescue Diver, is very nice and has been helping me a lot.

I finished the chapters I had to do of the Adventure Diving book. It should be forbidden to use that many difficult words. Unfortunately English isn’t my first language!

On the first day Melissa took Sam and me to the toyshop (the diveshop) where I started trying on wetsuits. After a while I finally found a great wetsuit, perfectly fitting and really comfortable. It’s an Aqualung suit and Pete has one the same make as well, so I just know it’s a very good wetsuit.

Sam and I had 2 pool sessions. The First pool session was to see where we’re at with the skills.
The second pool session went way better, already improving our skills.
My first dive was a shore dive in Abades with Alice and saw a lot kind of fishes, I saw a Cuttle fish and I saw an Arrowcrab. Those are really funny animals.

We also went on a dive boat and it was so much fun, you need to hold on or you bouncing off the boat.

I saw a Fire worm, Cleaner shrimps and a Barracuda at the second dive and a Fangtooth Moray Eel.

The greatest dive was diving with Turtles, one Turtle came really really close and it was amazing!

Othe than learning everything about diving and equipment, I also learned a lot about cleaning.

1. I learned that sweeping and mopping are two different things and it’s not just a funny way to say mopping.
At the end of the day I just said sweaping and swopping.

2. I learned that you need hot water when you clean and it’s also a pretty good idea to use cleaning liquid.

3. I learned how to dust, this went pretty well.

4. And I learned how to clean windows. Well I’m starting to learn because I didn’t do a great job. I was standing, bending and boiling behind the windows in the hot sun.

The biggest surprise this week, probably the biggest surprise in my life happened last week. I was focused on listening to Alice when two people walked in. I had a quick look and realised those two people were my Mom and my Stepdad visiting me in Tenerife.

I was in shock for a few minutes. They came to surprise me for my birthday which is on the 12th of October.

I’m really happy with my parents being here. It’s gonna be hard to see them leave again.

I hope you enjoyed reading it. I surely enjoyed living it.

Lydia