Review of Fatally Flawed: The Quest to be Deepest by Verna van Shaik The story of a woman diver’s successful attempt at a depth record in Boesmansgat sinkhole, South Africa – Fatally Flawed focuses on Verna van Shaik’s personal growth within the ego-driven world of deep technical diving. The account begins with a chronicling […]
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Basics of Decompression Procedures and Theory
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Jul
I recently completed a Decompression Procedures course with Blue Label Diving and, as a result, feel comfortable weighing the factors that go into creating a deco schedule for my dives. As a former physiology major, decompression theory was right up my alley. Luckily, instructor Por Parasu Komaradat had lots to offer on the topic – […]
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SDI Instructor Development Course
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Jul
Jul
SDI Instructor Development Course I dream of sharing my passion for diving with new open-water divers. So, when Blue Label Diving offered the opportunity to take an SDI Instructor Development Course with Ben Reymenants, I knew I should seize it. The jump from divemaster to instructor is significant. Both are professionals, but the responsibilities of […]
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Jun
Recently I’ve been asked what I’m up to with my technical diving internship at Blue Label Diving. After all, an internship in technical diving is a unique, exciting, and (to many) unfamiliar thing. Well, here’s a glimpse of what I do around here: Every day centers on diving, but there is no ‘typical’ day. It’s been 3 weeks […]
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Jun
Jun
Technical Diving Internship – part 1 – Full Cave Diver What an exciting first two weeks of my technical diving internship with Blue Label Diving! After a crash course in dive theory, instructor Ben Reymenants, full cave CCR student Chris Sammut and I headed to the caves of southern Thailand for some tech diving. On […]
This week in Tec … The festive period didn’t turn out to be a restful time in the tech room; we had a visitor from Switzerland, Tim, who came for a Tech refresher in Bunaken and stayed for a couple of days of 50M dives.
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Nov
Tec has been busy, TDI Gas blender, Tec try out in the pool, TDI Air Diluent CCR and we welcome Sonia for fun diving on her brand new JJ CCR. Our PADI Divemaster trainees receive a tec try-out as part of their internship and during this session we show different configurations to go underwater. So our DMT […]
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Oct
Oct
This week in tec… Our most recent tec student Markus finished off his PADI Tec 50 course with two really nice decompression dives that both had sharks at 50 meters! Among the different kind of sharks we had included black tip reef sharks, white tips and even one thresher shark who swam over head. By […]
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Oct
Oct
This week in tec… Our helium supply has been replenished so we have been out doing some amazing trimix wall dives around Bunaken! Of course, this means we talk a bit funny afterwards, but the helium in our gas mixture allows us to go beyond the 50 meter range to explore the life at these […]
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Oct
Oct
The last couple weeks out here in North Sulawesi on Bunaken the Blue Label Team has been having some amazing rebreather wreck diving. Pek, from Singapore, came out for a week to build his hours on the Megalodon CCR which he rented here from us. Then we welcomed Anthony, from Australia, who brought along his […]