Scubadiving around the world

Hi everybody,
I started diving when I was 16. I did a testdive when I was visiting my sister in Cancun, Mexico. It was an incredible experience, I must say that I was a little bit afraid of going under water. I had to get used to breathing through a tank.

My next dive was in April 2001 when I was again visiting my sister in Cancun, Mexico. I worked there for 2 months as a tourguide and a friend of mine introduced me to a scubadive instructor who did a dive with me of 15 meters at Cozumel island. It was an amazing site! I decided then that it was not my last time.

In October 2002 I went with my friend Maroesja to Thailand. We went to the divers island Koh Tao, where we did two courses of Scuba Diving. Our open water and our open water afvanced. 10 days diving in a row, 2 dives a day. It was wonderful! The atmosphere was great and we have learned and seen a lot! I realy enjoyed my night dive, I thought I would be afraid, but it was an incredible sight. When you wave your hand under water you can see fluorised colours under water. It's beautifull. I really did not like the trigger fish They were hunting me like crazy. I realy did like underwater photography, I will search for the pictures I have made there. But I can really recomend Koh Tao, I have dived at Easy Divers http://www.thaidive.com/

This January I went diving in Sint Maarten. I had never dived in the Caribean. My friends who live there are both Dive masters and they are also addicted to scubadiving. We did in tottal three dives which were all spactavular. We dived at http://www.diveguide.com/divesafaris/
I saw a nurseshark for the first time, it was huge (in my eyes) Such an incredible sight. The divemaster to told me to look under a rock and there it was laying if nobody would see him. How fun!

I'm planning to go to Mexico next year to work in a diveshop for a while and in the meantime doing my rescuediving and maybe Masters.

I think I'm getting adicted!

I'm curious to hear your stories!

Love,
Simone

Hi, I'm fifteen and I got my jr. openwater diving certificate 5 years ago when I was ten, I think. I got it together with my sister when I was living in the Philippines with my family. We often went to Mindoro Island as my mother and brother were already advanced divers. About three months before we moved to Australia, we decided we should go for it and we did, it was so beautiful, we spent a week there and did about two dives a day and went on small little boat cruises around the island at night. There was one spot that was particularly nice, it was Verde Island, if you ever go diving in the Philippines, that is where you should go. I haven't been diving since we moved here and I would like to go on a diving holiday at the end of High-school, in Papua New Guinea or Indonesia or the Phillipines again, I have heard the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland is nice but I'm afraid of those big white sharks! Trigger fish are scary too though, especially the females! I think you should go for your Masters, you won't regret it!

Hi there, I just came back from a trip through oceania and asia with a good friend and diving has caught us. We got our open water certificate in Australia at Cairns Diving Centre. No need to worry for big white sharks over there. The only sharks we've seen were the usual innocent reef sharks.

We liked diving that much that we took the SSI advanced course two months later on the Perhentian Islands in Malaysia. The Perhentian Islands are good diving with lots of sites including two Shipwrecks. For a really good price (cheaper than Koh Tao, and just across the Thai-Malay border). We also took the stress & rescue course at Alu Alu divers http://www.alualudivers.com.

When I have repayed my debts due to travelling that long, I defenitely want to go diving again!!!

Well, I have been living for the past two years on Curacao in the Dutch Antilles (it is in the southern part of the Caribean for the ones not too familiar with the small countries ), and even though it may not sound like an exotic location, diving here is incredibly good. You can just walk into the water from ANY beach and have a wonderfull dive. It's so easy. No need for boats or wasting time getting to the dive sites. Everything is so close by and accessible. There are sites for both the beginners as well as the advanced divers, visibility is around 100 ft, warm, blue waters and good weather all year round (good for the accompanying non-divers). And the night life is full of excitement too. And then if you get bored with Curacao, there is Bonaire only a few minutes flight away, which with its pristine waters is a diving heaven of this side of the Caribbean. Come and visit!

What a coinsedence, I've also dived on Perhentian Island! Diving was cheap, but not our bungalow. We were in 5-star bungalows. This was such an awesome 10 days: diving every day, snorkeling to see the sea turtles and half a bungalow with my girlfriend

Too bad I only did a Dutch course before that and they didn't accepted it. So I started with my OWC over there. So I couldn't go the shipwrecks

After that I dived a bit on the west coast of Malaysia: nice clear water, colorfull coral and fish.

The year after that I went to Italy and dived at Santa Margerita Liguea.
Some nice dives, but nothing compared with things like the Caribean or Malaysia.

Good diving centre and can you can do every course you want and cheap compared to other dive centres.
http://www.europeandc.com/

This summer I will go there for my entire vacation. So that will be 7 weeks. Time enough to finish my Divemaster and get my Instructor.

I started diving in 1997. I did OW , AOW, Rescue in the first 18 months of my diving "career". I celebrated my 100th logged dive in Bonaire in 1998. Besides Bonaire I have dived in Turkey (3 times), Egypt (4 times), Portugal, Mexico, Zanzibar, a lot of local dutch lakes and the North Sea. In 2003 i finished my DM course and I have been a staff member of Fundivers ever since.
I hope to enter my 400th dive in my logbook this year...

I started diving since 1995.
In 1998 I was a Master Scuba Diver.
Diving in Israël, Egypt, Belgum, Netherlands and Mexico
It,s a way of life..