Category Archives: Testimonials and reviews

SSI Instructor Crossover

SSI Instructor Crossover Course – Blue Label Diving I’ve come to expect nothing but the best from Blue Label Diving and my SSI Instructor Crossover course with Por Parasu Komaradat was no exception. Many Instructor Development Courses (IDCs) take just a few days to churn out unqualified instructors who will, likely, not be able to […]

TDI Extended Range with Instructor Ben Capitaine

My review of the TDI Extended Range Course As a technical diving intern, I often help in courses conducted by Blue Label instructors. This gives me the chance to get to know their individual styles of teaching and adds perspective to diving. I recently completed TDI Extended Range with instructor Ben Capitaine and am now […]

Basics of Decompression Procedures and Theory

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 – […]

SDI Instructor Development Course

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 […]

Technical Diving Internship

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 […]

JJ CCR CE

JJ CCR CE Approval And there it is , the long awaited CE approval for the – quite famous – by now, JJ CCR. The guys at JJ-CCR in Denmark didn’t have an easy time; caught in transitions of European Norm Codes and testing personell turnover, they went to the bottom of the bureaucratic CE […]

Megalodon vs JJ CCR

Megalodon vs JJ CCR Having taught the ISC Megalodon CCR for a number of years, I recently added the JJ-ccr to my teaching curriculum. It wasn’t for long until at least a dozen fellow divers would PM me asking what the best rebreather was. This posed to be one of the hardest questions I’ve been […]

Deep Cave Dive

Deep Cave Dive by Ben Reymenants 2nd January 2014 Song Hong Cave Thailand There’s a certain feeling that arises when tying into the end of a deep cave line.  As you are laying new line in virgin cave, there’s this unmistakable burst of adrenaline being injected into your system. You can feel your heartbeat, your […]

Review Blue Label Diving

Review Blue Label Diving in Khao Sok National Park & Song Hong (24 photos) by Pek Tiw Hong from Singapore 6th-8th Aug, diving in the flooded caves of the reservoir at Khao Sok for Cavern and Intro to Cave. Though it was rainy, the sights on the surface were jaw-dropping. Literally out of a postcard. Swam into […]