Rebreathers and sidemount in Bunaken & Lembeh
It’s been a long silence. And that can mean only one thing – we’re busy, especailly with rebreathers and sidemount! So here’s the Bunaken and Lembeh technical diving update for the past couple of weeks.
DIVEMASTER INTERNSHIP IN LEMBEH – WEEK 3 REPORT FROM SYLVIA
Just after I had finished my second blog, a telephone call from Bunaken brought good news: There had been a last minute request for an open water course. So I got over there the next day and that was the beginning of a great week.
DIVEMASTER INTERNSHIP IN LEMBEH – WEEK 3 REPORT FROM IMOGEN
I arrived in Lembeh after a very easy transfer and was shown around by the other DMT here, Sylvia. A few guests who had been in Bunaken with me had come to Lembeh and everyone is lovely so I felt very welcome and almost like I had not moved location at all.
DIVEMASTER INTERNSHIP IN LEMBEH – WEEK2 REPORT FROM SYLVIA
To summarize my second week in Lembeh: it was very busy, tons of fun, in some times very disgusting (but rewarding) and I learned a lot. The week started off with a beach clean up. When we came up from a dive on the house reef that morning, a truckload of rubbish had washed up…
DIVEMASTER INTERNSHIP IN BUNAKEN – LAST REPORT FROM KAROLINE
My DM internship is slowly coming to an end. I had a great last week. We had an Open Water Course with three participants going on and I was able to assist in it. So great to see the big steps the students took during their course. I’m now done with all the exams, swimming…
DIVEMASTER INTERNSHIP IN BUNAKEN – WEEK 2 REPORT FROM IMOGEN
My second week in Bunaken went far too quickly for my liking. I enjoyed a range of things from fun dives where I saw lots of beautiful marine life including many turtles, a bamboo shark and a pontohi pygmy seahorse to doing equipment repairs with the head dive guide, John.
DIVEMASTER INTERNSHIP IN LEMBEH – WEEK1 REPORT FROM SYLVIA
After I arrived, I had a day of fun diving. It was a really nice day with 3 spectacular dives: 2 Bargibanti Pygmee’s on the first, 5 (yes five) frogfish on the second and a pygmee squid, which I had never seen before. And than the night dive at Jahir: in the first ten minutes…
DIVEMASTER INTERNSHIP IN BUNAKEN – WEEK3 REPORT FROM KAROLINE
First I was able to assist Keiko and Nicolas on their first underwater adventures. But shortly after that there was no diving for me.