I have finished my internship, roll on the IDC after the summer!

I looked at the date today (25th May) and realised that my Divemaster Internship is over and that I SHOULD be flying home today! Luckily for me though 8 weeks has turned into more like 28 weeks! I can’t quite believe that two months have passed already though, however I am now very much looking forward to the summer.

This week started with a trip to Radazul with Chris who was a returning customer. We had a great couple of dives and saw a wide array of life from Trumpet fish to Barracuda and Groupers. Patrick, Buzz and I also re-visited and mapped the second reef at Abades so we can start taking customers there in the near future. Having built up this reef so much for the past few weeks after Randall and I explored it, I was half expecting this time for it to be deserted. Within 5 minutes of swimming towards the reef however, we saw the first of four common stingrays and a host of other fish species.

This week also brought my first dive at yellow mountain and we visited a nice swim thorough area at 13m and also Crocodile rock. I really enjoyed the steep ‘cliff like’ drops at Yellow Mountain and am looking forward to exploring this site in full.

After completing the exams and skill set on Wednesday morning I am very happy to say that I am a Divemaster!! – in terms of completing the internship anyway. I am now just waiting on PADI processing my application and bring on a busy summer of diving.

Melissa is sadly out of the shop for the next few weeks so we are all working extra hard to keep things running smoothly. Interestingly though without the ‘Mermaid’ here, we have had various team meetings about the changing of the shop name…… a clear winner was ‘Merman Diving!’ The paperwork is in the post….

Flounder