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At the Poor Knights / Photograph by Andrew Simpson
I have done most watersports (wake boarding, surfing, wind surfing, swimming, snorkeling and spearfishing) and I have always wanted to learn to dive.
So from the first Open Water dive, I was totally hooked and this year has pretty much seen me completing a life long dream.
I have spent almost more time in the water this year than out of it and I am quite happy about that.
In the last six months, I have learned to dive, completed my Advanced Open Water and Rescue Diver courses; as well as completing the Nitrox, Deep, Dry Suit specialties and am now looking forward to wreck diving.
I didnt really get a choice when it came to Divemaster.
I finished Rescue and Tara and Anna made sure that there was a Divemaster pack waiting in the shop for me that day.
I have just completed the TDI Introduction to Tech course with Andrew – which is good timing as I have just done my first dives with my twinset.
If I am not diving, I am snowboarding – or fishing – or thinking about my last dive; or hopefully my next dive.
I have met a lot of great new friends through Global Dive – both Instructors and divers.
