My First Advanced Open Water Students...

So yesterday I finished teaching my first Advanced Open Water class for a father and son from San Francisco. We had a great night dive watching an octopus on Sunday night, Monday was our deep and fish id dives during which we went to 125 ft and saw both lion and scorpion fish. Tuesday was our drift dive which was beautiful and we saw 2 turtles and then our navigation dive which was easy and quick. Congrats to my first Advanced Open Water divers!!

Dive, eat, dive, eat, dive, eat, sleep... repeat

Well, I'm in week 5 of my time here at Columbus and time seems to be flying by. I am diving almost everyday and 2-4 times at that. The diving is beautiful with sharks spotted on nearly every dive. I find it interesting to watch people's reaction to sharks. I've had the range from swimming towards them to hiding behind me or grabbing their children in fear. We also see a fair amount of lion fish which aren't native to the Atlantic and thus have no natural predators. The other dive operation, Riding Rock, on the island actively hunts and kills them to help reduce the population, but I still see them.
Last week on my day off a group of us G.O.s went out to eat lunch at Riding Rock and while I was there I spotted this sticker on the window with many other dive shop stickers.What a small world!! A little bit of Vermont in the Bahamas.

Week 3.5

Well it's been three and a half weeks since I've arrived here in the Bahamas and I've been having fun ever since. I've met so many neat people and made many great memories. I've learned most of the crazy signs but they keep adding in new ones every few days which throws me off. We got another new instructor, Jerome, from France who has previously worked at Turquoise.
I met a total of three other people with the same birthday and we all celebrated on the beach Sunday night. My co-workers had "Happy Birthday Megan" put up on the huge projection screen as well as about 8 renditions of "Happy Birthday" through out the day. I have one piece of chocolate cake left in the mini fridge in my room. :-)
Thank you to everyone for the birthday wishes!!

22 on the 22nd

Well, today is my 22nd birthday and I've been celebrating since last night. I've been busy working and diving without much time to spend on the internet. Donna, a G.M. that arrived here in Columbus Isle on Friday shares birthdays with me. We were sang to last night at the disco and I was sang to about 4 more times so far today. The diving is great and the people are even better. For some pictures check out my facebook album at... http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2049245&l=5c4d7&id=44801562
I'll be adding more in the next few days along with some more about the past 3 weeks.
Salut!

Bonjour from Columbus Isle

Salut!
I have made it safely to my new "home" here in the Bahamas. I arrived on Saturday afternoon and have been settling in to my new job. I have gone on 4 open water dives and saw my first hammerhead shark on my first dive here!! I've been busy and the scuba team is glad to have me because they have been understaffed and my being here helps some but they still need more to keep up with the demand. (So any instructors out there, apply at clubmedjobs.com!!)
I have set up skype and if you want to talk to me some time my user id is gonediving99. If you want my mailing address just send me an email and I'll let you know.
I took a few pictures and hope to include more soon.






for more pictures check out my facebook album at: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2048355&l=31eff&id=44801562