An early rise for the last day of diving, after this I am going to be a fully qualified diver, nice. Meet at 7.15 and we are on the boat where we go out to do our last couple of dives, this time a girl from the dive school has come with us and she is going to take video of us underwater and put together a DVD for us. Of course this is not free and I shudder to think of the cost when she has it completed. The dives today were brilliant because it is at this point...

Today is exam day. I can safely say that I have done no revision at all for the exam, from what I have seen it is all pretty much common sense, with only a little bit of technical stuff. So the exam is not really under strict exam conditions, I mean we are all sitting round a table just doing the exam. Not to difficult and Jeff and myself have it completed in about 10mins, it is all multiple choice. We then check that we have the same answers and tell James. He m...

We were supposed to have DVD training this morning but the electricity is down and so Marcos just talks us through chapter 4 and 5. These are the most technical and teach us about what happens to the air in our lungs under pressure. It also talks about some of the problem you could have with nitrogen poisoning and collapsed lungs. Scary stuff, but at the end of the day, if you follow the rules this isn't going to happen. I sit with Jeff and we joke about how some...

Our DVD morning starts at 8.30 and involves another chapter, again I fill in the knowledge review while the DVD is on, to ensure I have no homework to be doing after. Some people in this class are really not paying much attention. Not that it is too difficult, but still, you should be paying attention. After this we get a break for an hour or two before we meet back again and it is time for some pool training. ----- The group is split in two, those who want to ...

So I have to sit in Chumphon for 2 hours, trying to keep myself awake. There are some other people here as well, but with it being so early there is not too much talking going on. Eventually the van arrives and we pile on, then make a few other stops, picking up people as we go, until the van is nearly at breaking point. My legs are being crushed against my bag and the whole affair is entirely unpleasant. We get to the pier and the sun has come up. We head to th...