{"id":460,"date":"2018-03-22T09:17:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T07:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cyclefoodfun.com\/?p=460"},"modified":"2018-03-22T09:59:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T07:59:03","slug":"diving-at-salang-on-tioman-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Diving at Salang on Tioman Island"},"content":{"rendered":"

PADI Qualification Course with DiveAsia<\/h4>\n

I could not envisage a protracted stay in SE Asia without being able to dive and enjoy the underwater life as well.\u00a0 During my research I came across DiveAsia offering PADI qualifications for Open Water diving on Tioman Island.\u00a0 That’s what brought me here and I am so pleased to have taken this opportunity.\u00a0 The course is intensive.\u00a0 I arrived on Saturday at 13:00.\u00a0 By 14:00 myself and Alan Eandi were hard at work studying and being tutored the theory by our instructor, Linn Almqvist.\u00a0 Alan is from Argentina and Linn from Sweden. Six hours later the theory was done and we all went for supper\u00a0 together.\u00a0 Suddenly, Sunday dawned and by 08:30 we started the confined water diving skills levels 1-5.\u00a0 Normally this is accomplished in a swimming pool but we went into the shallows of the ocean where apart from learning to dive we could also see the coral and fishes – so much better than a pool.\u00a0 This took the whole day – nine hours later I was more than ready for a cold beer.\u00a0 Then on Monday and Tuesday we dived twice a day to complete the 4 Open Water dives and the qualification.<\/p>\n

If I had written the script I could not have asked for a more professional, patient, supportive instructor than Linn or a nicer diving buddy than Alan. Linn is tough when she has to be but so encouraging and she put in a lot of her time to help me.\u00a0 Alan took to diving like a duck to water, I took to it somewhat like a balloon to water as I battled with buoyancy and balance.\u00a0 He was uncomplaining and very supportive and kind.\u00a0 When we dived and I was having problems, he had to wait\u00a0 around while Linn worked with me and all this while the coral and fishes were just asking to be admired.\u00a0 Anyway with all the kindness and care it all suddenly clicked into place and we had a great final qualification dive together.\u00a0 Thank you both so much!<\/p>\n

\"divers<\/a>

All kitted up and ready to dive – Elred, Linn, Alan<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Divers<\/a>

Relaxing with a cup of coffee between dives<\/p><\/div>\n

\"PADI<\/a>

Got it!!!!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PADI Qualification Course with DiveAsia I could not envisage a protracted stay in SE Asia without being able to dive and enjoy the underwater life as well.\u00a0 During my research Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,35,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-malaysia","category-people","category-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgdVGU-7q","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyclefoodfun.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}