Right after finishing her SSI Instructor Course, Anna had the opportunity to come to our live aboard and put into practice all she learnt over her training. Whilst being Dive Master, she was in charge of already certified divers only, taking them for dives, looking after them and showing them around the best spots on the reef. 

This time however, she was involved in a real mission! Getting newbies to learn how to scuba dive from scratch and make sure they both felt comfortable enough performing the skills and able to keep diving on their own in the future. 

The first introductory dive was challenging, since it was the first time ever that they put scuba units on and breathed under water. One student was slightly more comfortable in the water than the other, which made it a more interesting course to start with for Anna. Having two different students with different levels of confidence lets you have a better understanding of the importance of having a good group control and accommodate to their needs. 

Dive after dive (9 in total!) they both exceeded our expectations and improved a lot, reaching a satisfactory level of comfort in the water in order to get certified as SSI Open Water Divers. 

Practicing all the skills from dive one in the Great Barrier Reef allows you to become more confident for your future diving adventures. The first few sessions are the most important and are always performed in confined open water, but that means you are in a real environment rather than in a swimming pool. Plus, you also get to see stingrays swimming around you whilst you perform the skills, like Elmira and Heather did! 

All in all, Anna did very well for her first Open Water Course and her students left super happy and excited for future diving adventures.

If you're interested in your personal dive experience, feel free to contact me! 

Big applause for our biggest ITC in Australia!!

Check out the new and good looking generation of SSI dive Instructors just certified in Cairns!
Scubabo, with the collaboration of Hostel Reef Trips, organised the biggest ITC ever carried out in Australia, and it turned out to be a great success! 

Nikki, Justin, Anna, Matty & Jackson just completed their 3 months dive master training before on our over night boat. 
Giving certified divers dive briefings, guiding certified divers, preparing the dive sessions which includes filling scuba tanks and writing dive logs..all these is part of the program. 

The final step to become a assistant Instructor is to assist a full Open Water Course with our high qualified dive Instructors. Assisting scuba skills update program and at the end an In-water teaching evaluation which means learn how to brief and teach unexperienced students who never dived before and get them ready and excited for these great adventure. 
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All 5 of them have done very well and got nominated for our first SSI Instructor course in Cairns! 
Congratulations guys! 

​The course consisted in 10 academic and pool training days course and ended up in beautiful Fitzroy Island for the open water evaluation. The 9 participants chosen were employees from Scubabo Underwater photography Art and Hostel Reef Trips, who had previously completed their Dive Master Traineeship with either companies. 

After a stressful too weeks, big smile on all our candidates faces! No more preparing presentations, online studying or skills practicing because everyone has passed the course! Wuuuup wuuup
Speedboat back from Fitzroy to our base in Cairns! Already a couple of drinks in and ready for a big night out in town!!

Big thanks to these 3 SSI legends! Joel (Scubabo), Macca (Hostel Reef Trips) and Paul (SSI certifier) who allowed me to follow the course and the final IE on Fitzroy Island! 

My next step is gonna be the Instructor Trainer course in May 2018! 

Do you want to live and work in paradise like our latest SSI diving instructors? No problem, contact me here to get more details! 

I would like to introduce you to Reto, who decided to sign up for his Open Water Course on our live aboard Reef Encounter. Only after 3 days and 2 nights, including 8 day dives and a final exam,  Reto was an Open Water diver!
The course started with his first open water dive in our beautiful reef location Norman Playgrounds. 
Usually the first confined session is the hardest,  performing mask and regulator removal under water is not an easy task but guess what? Reto smashed it!  So we were able to continue  the session as a fun 30 minutes dive!