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Holly Wakely becomes one of the world’s youngest Course Directors Holly Wakely has already carved a name for herself in the diving industry and now, at the tender age of 21, she has just achieved what many regard as the pinnacle in professional diving, PADI Course Director – becoming one of the youngest female CDs in the world. Holly’s introduction to the underwater world started early – back in 2004, aged two, her ocean-loving parents David – a dive instructor and dive doctor – and Catherine took her to Bermuda Aquarium, where she was immediately enthralled by what she saw in the e ..read more

What It Takes To Become A Dive Instructor! The life of a dive instructor looks incredible from the outside; getting to be in the water all day, on boats, having meaningful connections with marine life and getting away from the confides of an office job. But what does it take to get to this level of diving, where you’re so confident in your own skills that you are ready to help others develop their skills? First you have to be comfortable in the water. Being confident and comfortable in the water is a slightly different journey for everyone. For some people it comes rather naturally, they lear ..read more

Whether you’re a brand new or a long time diver, it’s likely that you’ve experienced a foggy mask. It’s not a hard problem to fix, just add a little water in and clear it back out. Look up, press on your mask and blow out of your nose. Problem solved. Right? Not always. If you have a brand new mask, this handy little trick becomes far far less handy when your mask will just keep fogging and fogging, but why? When you get a new mask, fresh out of the box it has a silicon layer on the lenses, its see through and totally unnoticeable, so many people don’t even know this is the case. This layer ..read more

Lots of divers have gone diving from a boat, but do you really know the ins and outs of diving and safety on a boat? Today I was teaching the advanced open water diver course, which consists of 5 dives, one of which is deep, one navigation and three elective dives. My diver opted to choose his electives for todays dives as peak performance buoyancy and boat diver, which struck me as different because I’ve never had someone ask to do the boat diver. Most divers see it useless because you’re already diving off the boat so what’s left to learn? Learning to dive off a boat is actually highly impo ..read more

Pack Warm The whole purpose of staying on a liveaboard is to dive and dive and dive! The more you dive, the less time your body has to warm up and the colder and colder you will get, even in 30C water, this being said, it’s worth taking up a bit of space in your suitcase for warm clothes. I bring a boat coat (a neoprene jacket with a fuzzy inside that can go overtop of my wetsuit and is wind-protecting), a pair of sweatpants, fuzzy socks and a sweater. I tend to get cold on planes so the sweater and sweat pants are worn for cold flights and double as warm on boat clothes. There is no nee ..read more