Dive Pages


Both of us are certified PADI Openwater divers, and on these pages you can view our logbooks and read about our dive trips.

We've been diving in

This is the current status of Ferry's dive log:

Certification level PADI Advanced Openwater
Date of last certification September 12, 1998
Number of dives 146
Total bottom time 118 hours, 40 mins
Date of last dive May 5th 2004
Deepest dive 36,3 meter (117.5 feet)
Dive sites Great Barrier Reef (Australia)
  Andros Island (The Bahamas)
  Cyprus
  The Maldives (Ari Atoll, Rasdhu Atoll, North Male Atoll, North Nilandhoo Atoll)
  The Netherlands
  Mexico (West coast)
  Ningaloo Reef (Western Australia)
  Red Sea (Egypt)
  Florida (Keys, Palm Beach)
  Lanzarote
  Big Island Hawaii
  Palau
  Yap
  Thailand
  Julian Rocks (Byron Bay, Australia)
  North Stradbroke Island (Australia)
  Mornington Peninsula (Australia)

On August 29th, 1996, I got my PADI Openwater certification in Cairns, Australia. I took a five day course with Pro Dive, which consisted of two days theory and pool training, and three days of diving on the Great Barrier Reef. These last three days are spend on a boat (in my case the Stella Maris), where you also sleep. It was a real fun thing to do, and even the food was good. We got to make four dives necessary for certification, and five additional fun dives, including one night dive. It's some way to get certified!!

Some Butterfly Fish

As we made our way from Cairns to Brisbane, I got one more opportunity to dive. This was on Lady Elliot Island (see our Australia pages for more on the Island itself), and I had the chance to do two more dives. On one of them, I saw a big moray eel, a few barramundi cods, and a butterfly cod.

Butterfly Cod

This is the current status of Mirjam's dive log:

Certification level PADI Openwater
Date of last certification August 24, 1997
Number of dives 50
Total bottom time 46 hours 53 minutes
Date of last dive May 6th 2004
Deepest dive 34 meter (111 feet)
Dive sites Andros Island (The Bahamas)
  The Netherlands
  Cyprus
  The Maldives (Ari Atoll, North Nilandhoo Atoll)
  Ningaloo Reef (Western Australia)
  Red Sea (Egypt)
  Florida (Keys, Palm Beach)
  Palau
  Yap
  Julian Rocks (Byron Bay, Australia)
  Mornington Peninsula (Australia)

As we both love to snorkel as well, we decided to buy ourselves a 'real' underwater camera. We decided on the Sea & Sea MX-10, and took it for its first test ride to Andros Island in the Bahamas. Later on we bought an Ikelite housing for our Canon EOS, which allows us wide angle and macro photography as well. And we now also entered the digital era!

 

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