Hello one and all,
My name's Phil and I'm a thirty year old MSDT - I trained (IDC Wise) at Mermaids CDC in Thailand. If there's anyone out there disalusioned with life in the West (you know, rampant commercialism, blatant rudeness, life at twenty five thousand miles per hour) or perhaps I am just describing London it's a fantastic place to train.
I went there as a UK trained MSD with 100 dives and would recommend this sort of experience before getting out there......you'll get much more out of it - and with a five month running time(three dives per day) I managed to clock up 400 or so in my time there. Lots of wrecks, great drifts etc etc. I left Thailand last July bound for Borneo (Semporna, to be exact) where I managed to secure work (and my MSDT) with daily work in Sipadan / Mabul / Kapalai. For any of you put there mulling over the next trip to secure world class viz / depth / whale sharks / reef sharks a plenty / schools of mean barracuda - it's just the ticket.
The point of all this is that, whilst now back in drizzling London, I'm back to earn some decent wedge, and am teaching on the weekends too - I have a cunning plan to get into Videography and am doing a whole load of research at the moment on how to break into it........an eighteen month plan to get back out there (Red Sea, to begin with) as a videographer (holiday DVD's etc to start with) and an instructor.
Any tips or advice from you all very knowledgable folks? Thinking about the HCR-HC7 with EVO Housing to start with.......am I on the right track??
And my name's Phil!!!!!! S@£t! Forgot to add that one!!
Cheers...............
And Sipandan, Kapalai and Mabul bring back good memories too..
