The time is just flying past.

We’ve both been pretty bust teaching and to top it all we’ve just been told that we need to move by the end of January.  You might think it’s ages away but here on Koh Tao, it’ll be busy season and a total nightmare to find anywhere decent.  So we’ve spent the last couple of days asking / driving around in search of a new abode. We’ve seen a couple of places but nothing in comparison to where we are now.   The hunt continues….

Hey guys…

Its busy at the moment..

Jen has been working pretty much non stop with small courses. I have been busy with video work, and self reliant diving.

A couple of days ago, I was on the last dives with a student, on the Self Reliant course (means you can dive on your own).

I jumped in from the boat, and the student and Steve (Crystal Images Manager) jumped in after.

30 seconds later the student started screaming and thrashing his arm around… I noticed tentacles flying around his head and directed him, quite sternly, to stay still. I looked under the water to see a Box Jellyfish swimming away with only 1 tentacle left on it.

We got the student up on the boat, removed the tentacles, and requested a boat to collect us from the dive site so we could get him to the clinic. Apart from the pain, which wore off a day later… he was fine.

In the meantime…. I have had the 5 days of Black & White challenge on Facebook… Here are the photos…..

The boss of the dive school received an email yesterday….

I thought you should read it…

“I just wanted to let you know how impressed I was having Jenny as my Open and Advanced Open instructor. I am and educator and found her to be incredibly knowledgable, thorough and caring. She really knows her stuff and introduced me and the rest of the class to diving in a respectful, ecofriendly and fun way. She did not scrimp of safety measures and checked us all to ensure we had covered everything. She was also very kind and considerate, going out of her way to find equipment that I needed in a small fit, and that another fellow needed, a diving hood. She was so very enthusiastic and loves what she does, aside from being extremely well informed and engaged in diving. There was never a time that I felt she was bored, or uninterested eventhough she has probably done the course teaching, a million times before.

Each of us was special, and she took note of what each one of us was nervous about, had trouble with or did well, and never forgot to state this to us. She was so encouraging and lovely. I believe you should keep her forever because if she is the way people are introduced to diving, they will most certainly love it, be ecologically responsible, and not fear anything.

Great choice having her there. She is tops and so is your facility. I am seriously considering taking my Dive Master Internship with you, and I live in Canada.

Great facility and well run business Crystal! I also wrote a review about you guys on Trip Advisor because I think people should know about you.

Appreciatively,
Susan Adaskin”

Well done Jenny…

xx
SD