I take the morning saying goodbye of 7 people who leave. Most were there only a day or 4 so it will come and go. We leave here to consider, still with 8 guests and plenty of staff, boat crew, dive guides, Nigel & Tina (the owners) and their 6-month-old daughter Rebecca and her nanny to the wreck. I must prepare myself during this diving entering the wreck the next card. Tina is my instructor today because Lucy is a few days off. On the boat I practice knots, but that is as old sailing instructor no point. Then I take a course on the boat with a long line on a rolapparaat (a "reel) and the line at different points in the boat secure. After the line is wound on the reel must have it again but now with a torch in my other hand. That's a lot harder, especially since today is quite windy and there are waves.
The buoy that is normally attached to the wreck is not there, so the guides first go snorkeling to the wreck to find the most onerous as the highest point of the wreck at 24 meters and the visibility under water is less than 24 meter. After 10 minutes, located the wreck and we go into the water. I put on 30 meters with a bowline the line onto the boat and we go inside. It is fitting and measuring in the small space and with a reel and a lamp I have my hands full literally ![]()
If we come from the wreck we swim to the reef and we go Ape, a dive guide, without his 2 guests against. Tina and Pim motioning me to wait and she swims back. We are waiting obediently but note that a lot of flow and that the probability that Tina takes us back is minimal. We start our decompression stops at 15, 12, 9 and 5 meters and finally after 50 minutes, the shortest dive here so far, on the surface.
On the boat that the guide during the descent could not be done and 2 guests with whom he had never seen that before and found the wreck at 30 meters depth that they were without their guide. Nigel, who also gave a course on the wreck of an Advanced student, he continued them in tow taken. So happy was everyone and everything OK.
The second dive is a fun dive and I go along with Tina and Nigel. Luxury hear a dive only with the 2 owners! And still for my 350th dive! The wall is beautiful, I count 4 turtles and we feel pretty small stuff on the wall. Luckily, my camera, underwater yesterday an error message in the screen and gave nothing else did it again. Only the back-roll from the boat I had the camera tightly enough so he shot out my hand and landed with a thump on my forehead. The camera is intact from the collision came, my forehead, unfortunately not because there is now a good egg ...
After lunch, I do the 2nd part of my Emergency First Response test, under the guidance and watchful eye of Tina and Pim. After 3 hours sweating (chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation at 32 degrees heating) and 5 scenarios of "accidents" in which the kitchen staff is often the victim, I passed! Completed 3 courses, 1 almost halfway with 1 and 1 should I start: now it shoots up to my "Master Scuba Diver" status ![]()
After a cold shower, I just called my grandmother who is 88 today and become my parents gesmst that had just risen to the interior of Suriname to travel. The time difference with the Netherlands is 6 hours, and Jur gave me this morning at 7 o'clock (1 o'clock in the Netherlands) called when he came out of the bar. My grandmother was just the coffee and my parents were up before dawn in Suriname, funny hearing all the time differences ![]()





