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Perseverance is key! It always pleases me when an open water student perseveres after a first initial difficult day. The first full day of the open water course is always the most difficult, you are doing things you have never done before, using equipment that you have never used before, seeing aquatic life for the first time, learning new skills for the first time and breathing underwater for the first time. A few new divers do find this daunting and may not wish to continue, which is always disappointing for any instructor teaching, as they have a love for the sport that they wish to convey to their students. Persevere because it does get easier after that first day, it can be difficult but the rewards can be some of the best moments in your life. Your instructor is there to guide you through these new skills and just like anything in your life it takes practice. Your reward for practice is to enter a realm that is so diverse that you can dive thousands of times and still come across creatures that you have never seen before! Just remember it gets easier and breathe. David Waite, Padi and SSI dive instructor, Scuba Junction
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Dan, Chris and Jenn 3 friend's from Alberta, Canada, came to Scuba Junction to learn to dive. 3 day's later I'm sure that their lives have changed for the better. Now I look forward to two more days with them as they do their Advanced Adventurer course to further their skill level.
I get this content feeling almost every week, when a new group of divers have passed all skill practice, theory and open water dives... then choose to further their skill level, when only days ago, swimming around the boat seamed a little stressful! Now night, wreck, deep, navigation and buoyancy dives await to add to the excitement of this new world.
As an (reasonably experienced) instructor you can sometimes forget how it is when you learn to dive, and the feeling that you get every-time you gear up! Its an adrenaline rush that is only reserved for a handful of sports. Also unlike bungee and sky diving its also peaceful when you understand the basics about neutral buoyancy! What other sport can you do where you have 45 minutes of silence (except for bubbles and the occasional crackling of parrot fish munching on the coral!)?
Gwydion Dacre, Head PADI & SSI Instructor 
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UV Night Diving 9 years ago I did my first night dive. It was my 23rd dive and I still remember most of the hour I spent under Rye Pier near Melbourne in Australia. I saw my first and only blue-ringed octopus, squid, seahorses, crabs and shrimp, and quickly decided that Night Diving was my favorite type of diving. Since then, I've done hundreds of night dives and loved most of them. Until last year I didn't think it'd get any better, then we tried UV diving for the first time :-) Using a torch that emits a range of light from UV to deep Blue and a filter over our masks, we entered a world apart from normal diving. It's much darker because the torch emits very little visible light, which makes the glow from the coral all the more astonishing. The corals glow in a range of bright green, yellow, orange and red, and it was amazing to watch the coral polyps feeding on parasites attracted by our torches. It's not just the coral that glows, a few fish exhibit fantastic fluorescence - freckled goat fish, often overlooked during the day, glow bright yellow - frog and scorpion fish a deep red glow. UV Night Diving is now by far my favorite type of diving, and I'm looking forward to many more incredible UV dives soon.... Alex Tyrell-Kenyon, SSI & PADI Instructor 
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Meine letzten studenten kamen aus ulm und man glaubt es kaum..bkk!! schulbank druecken und tauchen lernen hier bei uns in thailand ist soooo...einfach und so leicht! das haben sich manuel und jonael auch gedacht und ihren open water und advanced kurs hier gemacht. ich hatte mit beiden einen riesen spass!...es ist schoen, zwischendurch auf deutsch zu unterrichten, das erinnert einen dann schon an zu hause =^.^= wir hatten viel spass unter wasser, was vor allem ich an meiner staendig gefluteten maske gemerkt habe, die laeuft beim lachen naemlich voll... ausserdem hatten wir die change, viele unserer staendigen meeresbewohner zu beobachten..einsiedlerkrebse, die in ihren schneckenhaeusern ueber korralen klettern, moraehnen, drueckerfische, blaupunktrochen, skorpionsfische und viele mehr!! natuerlich gehoert ein abschluss bierchen genauso dazu, wie das eigene loggbuch und die zertifizierungskarte!.. ..haben wir uns auch gedacht und am letzten abend schoen ein draufgemacht ( am naechsten tag wird natuerlich ausgeruht und nicht getaucht, wir sind ja anstaendig)! ich moechte mich bei beiden mit kusshand bedanken, dass ich so viel spass haben durfte waehrend der kurse...und schicke dicke kuesse an alle in deutschland, vielleicht bis bald, eure niki =^.^= 
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Best dive on Koh Tao
Sharks, love them or hate them diving with them is an unforgettable experience. For me sharks are a great fascination of mine but I’d never seen one in the flesh and blood. Was it one thing to watch it on TV. and not be afraid but another to be in touching distance or even biting distance of the seas greatest predator. The day finally came, Bull sharks had regularly seen at Sail Rock. I bite the bullet and swallowed my nerves and booked the dive. It was an early start at 5am but even after hardly any sleep I certainly wasn’t tired. The long boat ride just fuelled my excitement and worry. What if they weren’t there or I didn’t see them? Did I really want to? Surrounded by a group of my close friends who were all diving with me I felt the nerves slip away. At 20m down a shadow in the thermacline below us. Out of the mist it glided not one or two but three. So elegant they hardly seemed to move yet one flick of their tail and like lightening they were gone in a flash. They stayed around and it seemed like out of curiosity just like us. They came so close I could nearly brush up against them. Staring a bull shark down I didn’t feel afraid no more then any other fish. I even played chicken with a bull shark! Watching him come head first at me only to whip away at the last moment. One even chased a fish nearly to the surface showing us his belly in an odd fish and shark dance, amazing. After that dive I realised how incredible beautiful sharks are and that I would always respect them for both sides of their nature and fight for their preservation. Rachel Lawns, PADI Dive Master, Head Shop Assistant 
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