Committee Position:
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Advanced Training Officer |
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Instructor
Level:
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BSAC - Open Water Instructor
PADI - Assistant Instructor
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Year
Started Diving:
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first did a try dive aged nine at typhoon lagoon in florida!
got my PADI open water the summer i turned twelve ..... July 1999
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Current
Qualifications:
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BSAC - Dive Leader
PADI - Divemaster |
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Number
of Logged dives:
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did my 2000th logged dive on the sub in Newquay with Alex in July, off my
face the whole time! UK waters r brutal for getting ya narked! |
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Best
Dive Ever:
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Wow there are about 100 dives in my top ten :)
but all time best was in koh tao, the water was crystal blue, just wearing
boardies n bikini, none of this wet suit faff. had just done a DMT training
dive to 20 ms at White Rock ..... had been a bit of a mess cos we all got
triggered n hence got very lost but as we were coming up n i saw this huge
shadow to my left n it was a ..... WHALE SHARK! We had spent the last two
months neva daring to miss a dive in case we missed seeing one of these bad
boys! It was huge n so graceful and we spent an extra hour swimming with it!
I have neva felt that feeling since, i rlly felt like we were visitors in
this giant's home! Loved It!!
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Most
Educating Dive:
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um ..... i have done a lot of training dives where u do the theory in the
class room then spend the following days carrying out the theory underwater
till ya master it...... n then repeat if for eternity! but i wud not rlly
call that educating dives, more training. the first time i learnt what it
was to get narked was an education but the dive i prob learnt the most on
was my first dive in uk waters. Horsea Lake, end of Oct with a bunch of
crazy ppl hu i hadnt got a clue hu there were!! Crazy UPSAC. During that
dive i learnt how to dive while numb with cold n with so much neoprene on
ya, ya felt indistructable, whilst being able to see about 30cm in front of
you!! It was a proper experience where i felt total respect to the ppl hu do
their first eva dive in the UK in jan!!!
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Maddest
Dive Ever:
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this wud prob have to be the first time i did a naked dive. the PADI ppl i
have dived with, especially in thailand, felt every 100th dive ya had to do
naked n every 1000th dive ya had to jump from the top deck of the boat
naked. always pleasent! my first naked dive was in antigua n we saw sand
tiger sharks! needless to say i felt very vulnerable!!
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Why
I Want To Dive:
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ever since i did my first try dive when i was nine, i was totally hooked. i
cud not understand why my family wernt under the water n everyone else in
the world! u can leave all the crap thats going on in the world n plunge
into the sea where every single dive is totally unique. its now become a
total obsession n the more i learn the more i wanna try out new diving
experiences.
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If
I was a marine animal, what would I be?
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i wud have to be titan trigger fish so i cud have some fun chasing diver's
fins n being the devil of the sea! plus i wud get to live off koh tao all yr
round n wudnt have to pay to be there :)
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