Diving community: Eat, sleep, dive, repeat!
I did a school internship at the Evasioni Blu Diving‚ a PADI dive center in Sicily for a week and it was great! Rino and Esther run this dive center and I helped them lift tanks‚ prepare and assemble the diving equipment and much more. In this short week I learned a lot from this profession!
My expectations were actually quite high already before I started the internship; for example‚ I imagined that we would enjoy going out by boat and let people dive into the sea. Although it was really hard work‚ all these expectations were certainly met. In fact‚ it was all much better than what I expected! It is a very nice dive center with a good atmosphere and the dive center staff also speaks many languages (useful for foreigners).
What I enjoyed the most in my week at Evasioni Blu Diving was diving myself joining a group of divers. Underwater I was taken to the most beautiful places on the dive spot and I also dived in an open cave; that was really cool! I actually had quite a few problems with my ears‚ but I was very well helped by the friendly staff and by Esther herself. What I am also very proud of is that the divers were also very happy with the help I provided.
Tim Kroesen‚ 14 years PADI Scuba Diver
I did an internship at Evasioni Blu Diving for a week and I really only enjoyed it here! I have learned many things and found that I definitely want to do something in the world of scuba diving when I grow up.
I myself have learned the first lessons of diving and how everything works around diving. I also did a dive myself at sea which I thought was super cool!
I am shocked by the amount of plastic on the beaches in Sicily. I am happy that I was able to help with the “Dive Against Debris” action‚ where divers cleaned the seabed and we reported what was found.
At the dive center and on the dive boat I always had a good time! Helping people into the water‚ out of the water‚ all the preparations for the dives and all the cleaning up afterwards was a lot of work‚ but I thought it was great fun!
Bastiaan Germans‚ 15 years PADI Discover Scuba Diver
"Working with Tim and Bastiaan for a whole week‚ and I survived!" That is what I initially thought I would say after this week of internship‚ but I couldn’t have been more wrong! A very nice but especially a good learning experience as a diving instructor to lead a school internship of these boys.
To train someone in the diving sector in less than a week; an introduction to the scuba diving world‚ preparation of the diving equipment‚ helping customer divers‚ logistics of the dive center‚ administration‚ assisting divers on the dive boat‚ anchoring‚ helping divers in and out of the water etc. It actually seemed to me as an impossible task to teach them all of this in less than a week. But‚ in less than 5 days I was almost able to hand over the keys of the dive center to Tim and Bastiaan and go and get myself a nice cappuccino.
This experience left me super happy and satisfied. The enthusiasm of Tim and Bastiaan was just amazing! I would almost be proud of the work I have done‚ but I';;;m not sure whether I can take the credit. Tim and Bastiaan are just great workers‚ initiative taking‚ inquisitive‚ motivated‚ unstoppable‚ disciplined‚ enthusiastic‚ cheerful‚ hard-working!
Esther de Kruijf‚ PADI IDCS at Diving School Evasioni Blu Diving
