Diving certificate upgrade

We just came back from our annual diving vacation. This time we went for Advanced Open Water Diver certificates. Destination – a very small village Bali located in Crete. Diving center – Hippocampos. We had a really nice instructor Harvey who is migrating from one diving center to another so I can only promise you won’t find him at the same diving center next summer..

Dives were really amazing. We had five Adventure Dives for AOWD:

1. Boat Dive
2. Night Dive
3. Underwater Navigator
4. Peak Performance Buoyancy
5. Deep Dive

Peak Performance Buoyancy was a number one technical lesson – I’d highly recommend taking it especially if you don’t feel very self-confident underwater due to excessive BCD usage or hard work with your fins/hands.

Night dive was a number one underwater sightseeing. Muraenas are really impressive! Yet apart from them, we’ve seen hell a lot of other underwater creatures. And by creatures, I really mean that some of them caused a frustration because I could not tell whether they were a fish, a plant, a snake, a rock or yet another underwater alien. Here’s an index of those available at Bali.

For our last dive we bought a still underwater camera, so you can find our first underwater photos.