Open Water Dive Course

The dive course was over four days and included two theory sessions, two pool sessions, and five dives.

On the first day we watched a couple of videos, did some theory work and then climbed into our SCUBA gear for the first time. Once in the pool, we both found it really hard to get used to breathing underwater - it was a very strange and unnatural sensation! However, after persevering we became more and more comfortable, and were able to complete all the essential skills in the pool before our first dive.

We were now onto the fun part of the course! We did five dive sites in total including Manta Point, Meno Bounty, Hanns Reef, Shark Point, and Halik. Each dive site was very different and added to our experience every time. We started with our first dive at 12m, and by the end of the week we were going as deep as 23m.

As we became more comfortable in the water, we were able to really relax and take in the sheer beauty of the coral reefs and shipwrecks, not to mention the fish! Over the five dives we saw loads of weird and wonderful types of fish including trigger fish, cuttle fish, angel fish, spade fish, sweet lips, lion fish etc. etc. We were also lucky enough to see many hawks bill and green turtles as well as a white tip reef shark and an eagle ray.

It was absolutely incredible and we've definitely got the taste for it! Maybe our advanced course in Malaysia???