Simply Diving Blogbook

Marine Life Rescued As Divers Come Up Clean

By Simply Diving PADI Instructor Dan Nelmes

HOW’S IT GOING DIVE FRIENDS..?

April 24th was a particularly important day for divers. Why, I hear you ask? Because all around the world, divers and dive companies got involved with Project AWARE’s Dive For Earth Day: One of the scuba diving world’s most important days in the calendar when we get the chance to clean up one of our favourite dive sites. Read the rest of this entry »

Living the dream

By Simply Diving Divemaster Trainee Rhia Keene

To introduce myself… my name is Rhia Keene. I’m 23 and in my first month of my PADI Divemaster internship course at Simply Diving.

To be honest, I never thought I would be sat here right now writing this blog about how I’m training to be a scuba diving instructor. After all, it was just a month ago that I was in England working in a tattoo studio as a body piercer! Read the rest of this entry »

A Tale of Two Seas

By Simply Diving Instructor Dan Nelmes

What’s happening divers…?

The first few months of 2010 proved to be a testing time for diving, due to some unnaturally very wet and stormy weather. But a continued break from the rain and wind has yielded some gorgeous dry and sunny days these past few weeks. So it was only natural that we should take the bull by the horns to venture back into an underwater world that we’re used to! Read the rest of this entry »

Just The Start Of Things To Come

By Simply Diving IDC Staff Instructor Jenny Pritchard

Introductions then! For those of you who don’t already know me, my name is Jenny. I have been a PADI Instructor for four years, diving for eight years and I am the newest full-time member of the Simply Diving team. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s My Carribean Blood!

By Simply Diving’s Natasha Johnson Bell

Okay, so I am what one would officially term a ‘diving prude.’ As much as I love diving, I won’t do it in the dark, I never pee in my wetsuit and the water’s got to be hot. Yes, hot. Not warm, but hot. So as you can imagine, although I have the charms of the Mediterranean sea on my doorstep, my diving forays are limited to my bath tub and our heated pool.

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THE ULTIMATE GOAL

By Simply Diving PADI Instructor Dan Nelmes

It’s happened. I finally did it. After much hard studying, intense lectures & enough cups of tea to drown an army, I made it to the end and achieved the ultimate goal that anyone who’s anyone in the diving community hopes to be: A PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor. Read the rest of this entry »

Straight In At The Deep End

By Simply Diving Instructor Becky Wood

Well, it’s a few months now since I arrived here in sunny Spain from Australia, and its been a pretty hectic summer…  so far!  My first day was a big jump into the deep end as there were nine Discover Scuba Divers - not something that we ever came across in Australia as our primary dive site was a wreck in 28 metres!

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From Losing A “Missing Diver” To Finding A “Mola Mola”: A Month In The Life Of A DMT

By Divemaster Trainee Dan Nelmes

I look back every so often and think just how far I’ve come in the short space of time since joining Simply Diving’s team. Who’d have thought that I’d make it to PADI Rescue Diver? And to top it off, going onto the next step as a Divemaster Trainee. It’s crazy to contemplate, but a real smug bringer! Although, I will confess, it’s been hard work all the way…

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Say It Loud… OWSI And Proud!

By Dave Cross, Simply Diving DM and Instructor Candidate

I am well chuffed. I have done it. After three months of hard slog and graft I can now call myself a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor.

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And Who Said Running A Dive Centre Was Easy?

By Simon Bell, Dive Operations Manager

I think I might have said that once, but never again.  With an IDC well under way, new Divemaster interns about to start, new Instructors being recruited and Easter holidaymakers still arriving in their droves, the only place to escape has been… yes you’ve guessed it… underwater!

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