Dear Fiona & Chris

Wishing you a very Happy Anniversary!
Have a fun filled day!

Love
Jenny & Simone
x x x

&
a little message to 
MRS M

I have been out of action for the past few days with a seized back that has been bloody painful and made me quite grumpy!

Gently easing, I decided to help Jenny out with a buoyline repair today.

What had happened is that a couple of days ago, a huge car ferry thought it would be a good idea to moor up on a line thats only suitable for a dive boat. Hence it snapped almost immediately. By chance, Crystal were at the same dive site (Junkyard), and someone filmed it with their phone.

Now, although this is a rare occurence (and soooo dumb), we have lots of buoylines that break from wear and tear. This is the 2nd one at the dive site in just over a week.

What people on the island don’t seem to understand is that there is not and endless supply of buoys and ropes, nor do the great people that fix them get paid. Its sometimes a difficult job and takes at least a day or so to prepare and deploy… Rant over.!

Jenny and Kiwi had arranged to head out this morning to fix 1 line. They helped carry my dive bag and set my equipment up so that I could get set up in the water and not stress my back. Then they dropped down to fix the line.

Well done… with no input from any other dive schools as per usual… apart from Chad at New Heaven, who is always exctremely helpful. Its such a shame that the schools that use Junkyard on a daily basis just ignore any calls or request to help maintain the dive site so that they can benefit.. ah well…

xxx
SD

Yesterday I organised a Beach & Dive Site Clean Up for all the DMTs (Dive Master trainees) at Crystal.  I met a keen bunch of DMT’s around 8.45 and equipped them with gloves & bin liners down sent them along the beach and around Crystal to collect rubbish.  Some of them might as well have stayed in bed but there were a few that put some effort into it.

In the afternoon, we, DMT’s and 3 fun divers went out for the dive site clean.  Our first destination was, Ao Mao, one of the new artificial reefs which then leads into a pretty coral reef  ..not much rubbish was found, only plastic bottles and fishing wire.   The 2nd dive site was Tanote Bay  ..this again didn’t have much trash to collect, which is good.  Everyone seemed to enjoy both dives and we all came away with a sense of achievement.

Simon has been out of action for 2 days, since he has somehow put his back out, and cannot walk without pain… He looks like a penguin when he walks at the moment.. hopefully it will improve soon…