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 – […]
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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 […]
Recently I’ve been asked what I’m up to with my technical diving internship at Blue Label Diving. After all, an internship in technical diving is a unique, exciting, and (to many) unfamiliar thing. Well, here’s a glimpse of what I do around here: Every day centers on diving, but there is no ‘typical’ day. It’s been 3 weeks […]
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 […]
This week in Tec … The festive period didn’t turn out to be a restful time in the tech room; we had a visitor from Switzerland, Tim, who came for a Tech refresher in Bunaken and stayed for a couple of days of 50M dives.
Tec has been busy, TDI Gas blender, Tec try out in the pool, TDI Air Diluent CCR and we welcome Sonia for fun diving on her brand new JJ CCR. Our PADI Divemaster trainees receive a tec try-out as part of their internship and during this session we show different configurations to go underwater. So our DMT […]
This week in tec… Our most recent tec student Markus finished off his PADI Tec 50 course with two really nice decompression dives that both had sharks at 50 meters! Among the different kind of sharks we had included black tip reef sharks, white tips and even one thresher shark who swam over head. By […]
This week in tec… Our helium supply has been replenished so we have been out doing some amazing trimix wall dives around Bunaken! Of course, this means we talk a bit funny afterwards, but the helium in our gas mixture allows us to go beyond the 50 meter range to explore the life at these […]
The last couple weeks out here in North Sulawesi on Bunaken the Blue Label Team has been having some amazing rebreather wreck diving. Pek, from Singapore, came out for a week to build his hours on the Megalodon CCR which he rented here from us. Then we welcomed Anthony, from Australia, who brought along his […]
This week in tec….Blue Label Diving Indonesia is a CCR friendly dive centre with two kinds of rebreathers for rent and all the sorb, tanks, oxygen, air and trimix fills you need. Hiro and Sandy welcome Pek and Anthony to their first visit to Bunaken where both of them are diving CCR this week. Pek […]