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I’m back after almost few weeks of not having time to update my blogs due to the festive month we were all having. It has been a good year and this year should be better. Career wise, even though it was a bit like the tidal phenomenon, still nothing to be regretted. Honestly, I have a feeling that 2010 is going to be a good year for me in many ways. After all the party and sleepless nights, I actually kicked off the year by teaching Advanced Open Water Course. How great is that? Personally, I find it very interesting to start gaining income on the first day of a year. It gives me a great expectation. It promises me a great year , waiting ahead of me.

The year 2009 was not a bad year at all, though I didn’t get to do some traveling due to working extra months in Layang-Layang Island.I have ended the year with almost no major problems and managed to settle some. I have made new friends, I have rekindled with long lost friends, I have strengthened my ties with current friends, and most of all, 2009 was the year I finally got a chance to see almost all of my family members, plus the newest members of the family tree. The branches has gotten more now.

However, a year without difficulties is a fantasy and too good to be true. I bet everyone wishes to have such a year right? Who wouldn’t. But without problems, ones will never learn to find solutions. Without problems, there would be no dreams, no goals, no desires, how dull would life be.

Therefore, I wish everyone a very happy new year and have a great year of the tiger. Leap into the new year with stealthy and agility. Sneak into your goals and when you grasped it, roar your victory with proud.

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I’m back after almost few weeks of not having time to update my blogs due to the festive month we were all having. It has been a good year and this year should be better. Career wise, even though it was a bit like the tidal phenomenon, still nothing to be regretted. Honestly, I have a feeling that 2010 is going to be a good year for me in many ways. After all the party and sleepless nights, I actually kicked off the year by teaching Advanced Open Water Course. How great is that? Personally, I find it very interesting to start gaining income on the first day of a year. It gives me a great expectation. It promises me a great year , waiting ahead of me.

The year 2009 was not a bad year at all, though I didn’t get to do some traveling due to working extra months in Layang-Layang Island.I have ended the year with almost no major problems and managed to settle some. I have made new friends, I have rekindled with long lost friends, I have strengthened my ties with current friends, and most of all, 2009 was the year I finally got a chance to see almost all of my family members, plus the newest members of the family tree. The branches has gotten more now.

However, a year without difficulties is a fantasy and too good to be true. I bet everyone wishes to have such a year right? Who wouldn’t. But without problems, ones will never learn to find solutions. Without problems, there would be no dreams, no goals, no desires, how dull would life be.

Therefore, I wish everyone a very happy new year and have a great year of the tiger. Leap into the new year with stealthy and agility. Sneak into your goals and when you grasped it, roar your victory with proud.

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I’m back after almost few weeks of not having time to update my blogs due to the festive month we were all having. It has been a good year and this year should be better. Career wise, even though it was a bit like the tidal phenomenon, still nothing to be regretted. Honestly, [...]

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On the recent post, I have shared bits of the training with you. On this one, I will uncover more about the training but not the whole thing. I only share with you the skills I find really useful and at the same time a mandatory to master with.

Okay, so your instructor will teach you how to breath from the regulator. In the open water scuba diving course, the number one priority is to make sure a student can handle and maybe solve a problem no matter how small it is.  These skills will help you a lot everytime you make a dive. These competency  will also give your instructor better credibility unless you want him or her out of business.

So here are some of the most critical parts of open water training which will determine whether you are up for it or not. Number one and main factor of failure is the diving mask removal and clearing mastery. We, you and I are humans. We are not meant to breath in water. The moment water gets into our throat forcefully or accidentally, the brain reaction is to tell you to stop breathing, after a minute or more the brain experience oxygen starvation and eventually shut off the system temporarily, the main factor of drowning.

Mastering masks skills are so important they were placed in the first few parts of your training. Not towards the end. As you know, while scuba diving, your environment is no longer on your side. Without a proper technique to manipulate and adapting to it, you will meet trouble. Water will always try to sip into any empty spaces such as your diving masks. If you can think of any way to permanently prevent this without spending on another hi-tech and expensive full face dive masks, please share with me.

I found out that many of us have issues with the sea water sipping into our dive masks. It is not a comfortable to think that you might breathe water in through your nose. At some point it can triggers the fear of drowning which always resulted panic and inability to think rationally.

The best way to overcome this problem is get familiar with the diving masks. You can start by doing some snorkeling and swimming, preferably in the sea. Most of the time, your instructor will give you some tips as well during the course but it is best to have experience it first than to discover you can’t complete your open water course just because you can’t perform masks involving skills underwater.

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On the recent post, I have shared bits of the training with you. On this one, I will uncover more about the training but not the whole thing. I only share with you the skills I find really useful and at the same time a mandatory to master with.

Okay, so your instructor will teach you how to breath from the regulator. In the open water scuba diving course, the number one priority is to make sure a student can handle and maybe solve a problem no matter how small it is.  These skills will help you a lot everytime you make a dive. These competency  will also give your instructor better credibility unless you want him or her out of business.

So here are some of the most critical parts of open water training which will determine whether you are up for it or not. Number one and main factor of failure is the diving mask removal and clearing mastery. We, you and I are humans. We are not meant to breath in water. The moment water gets into our throat forcefully or accidentally, the brain reaction is to tell you to stop breathing, after a minute or more the brain experience oxygen starvation and eventually shut off the system temporarily, the main factor of drowning.

Mastering masks skills are so important they were placed in the first few parts of your training. Not towards the end. As you know, while scuba diving, your environment is no longer on your side. Without a proper technique to manipulate and adapting to it, you will meet trouble. Water will always try to sip into any empty spaces such as your diving masks. If you can think of any way to permanently prevent this without spending on another hi-tech and expensive full face dive masks, please share with me.

I found out that many of us have issues with the sea water sipping into our dive masks. It is not a comfortable to think that you might breathe water in through your nose. At some point it can triggers the fear of drowning which always resulted panic and inability to think rationally.

The best way to overcome this problem is get familiar with the diving masks. You can start by doing some snorkeling and swimming, preferably in the sea. Most of the time, your instructor will give you some tips as well during the course but it is best to have experience it first than to discover you can’t complete your open water course just because you can’t perform masks involving skills underwater.

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On the recent post, I have shared bits of the training with you. On this one, I will uncover more about the training but not the whole thing. I only share with you the skills I find really useful and at the same time a mandatory to master with.

Okay, so your [...]

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On the recent post, I have shared bits of the training with you. On this one, I will uncover more about the training but not the whole thing. I only share with you the skills I find really useful and at the same time a mandatory to master with.

Okay, so your [...]

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