My name is Blinky…… I didn´t know it before but now I know… It turns out that every intern get a nickname. I must admit it the first reaction to the name is not positive, but maybe I will get use to it. So I start my Divemaster Internship.. eight weeks.
Leaving that, in the shop: Melissa the owner, the boss the staff instructor, Vince training to be an instructor. Tinman the newly baked instructor. Jeff and Ned Divemaster interns, and me… who don´t know much about diving. I dived 24 years ago, almost a lifetime for most of the people in the shop.
I´m a beginner, so what to do? I get to do the PADI Discover Scuba Diving Experience, In to the pool(!) with Tinman, Jeff, Ned and a Discover Scuba Diver, a young woman from the Netherlands. But first down to the dungeon to get the kit (all the scuba gear) Jeff and Ned shows me how to do. It´s a special way to assemble the kit, very handy actually (you will see if you come here)
Training skills in the pool, Tinman teach. The girl is a better diver than me, but I have weeks too learn… But it´s cool a new world! Off to the beach! Abades (an old leper colony that actually newer got used because the medicine got better). We make two dives along the reef. I must say it´s Amazing! I like the diving world, nice people and diving is fun! Is it not PADI who says that(?)…
Then back to reality, cleaning kit in the San Miguel Marina and the rib boat. We clean the kit while Tinman takes the Jumpy to leave the tanks for refilling and get new ones. It´s not that hard, we are three people a good number of people if you want to clean scuba gear. We have to wait a while until Tinman is back.
The sun is shining and the wind is blowing, and I am in love… Opposite our rib boat she lays, a rusty sailboat in bad condition, but she gets to me somehow. What a first day! Finished around 4: pm Back home read some in the open water manual. Tired.
Tuesday: Up at 6:am, the shop at 7:am Pool sessions skills for the PADI Open Water Course. It was all great fun, some of the skills we did yesterday for the Discover Scuba Diving experience.
Wednesday: Diving El Puertito doing my PADI Open Water dives 1 and 2, skills and a fun dive. It´s Tinman, Jeff, Ned, me and the Dutch girl. The second dive we see the turtle cool! It´like being in space (though I never been there…) the turtles just quietly floating (like a space ship) towards us. You don´t see them and then suddenly they are there.
Cleaning kit while Tinman leaves for the tanks. read a little when I come home, tired…. so much to read I am getting there though 
Thursday: Abades and the open water dives 3 and 4, getting close… I am so close just the exam to go. Today on the dives we did more skills, nice and fun then went exploring around abades.
Friday: To Tabaiba and diving because I´m not an openwater diver Jeff has to stay with me while the others go deeper. But diving is fun!
Saturday: day off, taking it easy so much to do as I have to do the PADI Open Water test tommorrow.
Sunday: 7:am the open water test. The others assemble the kit while I do the test. Luckily I pass so now I can start the PADI Advanced Open Water course Afterwards down to the marina while Mike, now it´s time for the PADI Advanced Open Water course, Cleo a french/Swiss girl will do that with me. Her father is diving with us also like Tinman Jeff and Ned. Search and recovery and the second dive we do navigation she´s a good diver. Nice people the Swiss.
Afterwards down to the marina while Mike, now it´s time for the PADI Advanced Open Water course, Cleo a french/Swiss girl will do that with me. Her father is diving with us also like Tinman Jeff and Ned. Search and recovery and the second dive we do navigation she´s a good diver. Nice people the Swiss.
Then… cleaning the kit.
My dream boatis still there , the week is finished and I´m a PADI Open Water Diver!
Per…hmm… Blinky
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