Amanda's kicking tail and getting her Open Water Diving License

After meeting an Irish dude (dive master) last night at our local on-the-sand beach bar and discussing some of the advantages of diving near Koh Phi Phi (as opposed to diving on the eastern side of Thailand at Koh Tao) we decided to start scuba a little early. After a few minutes in the pool for a "try dive" followed by lots of smiles and "yeah I definitely want to do this" Amanda decided to get her Open Water Diving License. I will be along side her the whole time and will be getting my Advanced Dive License simultaneously which entails some pretty wild dives like a 130ft deep dive, a night dive, and a dive at a ship wreck, mastering the dive computer, rescue divng etc. (6 individual advanced training dives and some book work). The cool thing is the Advanced certification is through PADI which is the dive standard worldwide and it will give me the ability to guide other open water divers when we get back home! It also bumps my credentials up so I can do more intense super deep dives and it allows the use of special air like nitrox for long duration deep dives. Check out the video below of Amanda's first experience with a regulator and fins at the most beautiful pool I have ever visited (you can watch them in HD if you have a fast fairly new computer). *Dustin