Study. All day. Lots of it. Oh, and I swapped my stash of read paperbacks at one of the numerous bookshops in the area. Then put them to one side and studied.

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Oh, this was a toughie. Putu and one of the other dive staff picked me up at 9:00 for a drive to Nusa Dua. This was the nearest swimming pool we could use SCUBA equipment in, and also where Putu had worked before joining ProDive. We had a lot of exercises to get through today, [...]

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Diving again today, but with some extra frills as I had a few tasks to complete and skills to demonstrate. I hopped onto the minibus with a young German couple who I’d met in the dive shop the day before while I’d been working with Putu and we took the lengthy drive up to Tulamben. [...]

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Putu, my Instructor, picked me up from my hotel at 10:00 so I had a nice lie in. We moto’d up to the dive shop where we spent a couple of hours going through all the material I’d covered the day before. While we were plodding through it all, a young German couple came in [...]

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OK, for once this will actually be a genuine short post. Woke up. Read lots. Filled lots of exercises in. All day. Finished Divemaster handbook review. Went to pub, watched very bad football results (I mean, come on – 3-1 away at West Ham… and the mackems won). Went to bed.

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A slightly earlier start today, but again the staff here ensured I had my breakfast before I left and was picked up by the van. Today I was joined by two Dutch guys and a German, Lars, who was to be my buddy for the day. It was quite a mixed group. One of the [...]

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Yesterday was a pretty quiet day spent chilling out and relaxing as I prepared for the regular sleeps I’d need for the next two weeks. Sadly, despite being in a complete party capital, there’s no way I can go out on the ale of an evening and then do 2-3 dives while in charge of [...]

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