PADI Open Water

I passed my open water course today, which is an exciting milestone, something I've had on my bucket list for a while now. The program was hard work, lots of skills development in the water and a fair amount of classroom study as well. Loved every moment though, and my instructor, Adi, from Master Divers was fantastic.

I would love to come back to Koh Tao in the future when the visibility is better and I can be on a less intensive diving schedule. It's hard when your expectations are high from previous experience to be underwater and only see 4 meters in front of you. But it's great practice for the buddy system because it was super easy to lose who you are paired up with. Really happy about how much control I had at the end though, was much more confident manoeuvring  around the sea floor. We saw puffer fish, banner fish, clown fish, sea cucumbers and lots of smaller iridescent blue guys.

I enjoyed the company of the rest of my dive team which were Saffron, Jen,Megan, Adi and myself. I was the only dude in the group which was actually quite nice :) here are a few pics of the gang. We went out for drinks to celebrate afterwards.. great experience with good people.








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