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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