This may not seem like a logical first step into the world of boat ownership/liveboard operating It isn’t!Īnd the arbitrary way that we made this decision still makes me question my sanity. A liveaboard diving boat in the Coral Triangle!īut not just any boat, we settle on the idea of a traditional wooden sailing boat build by local tribesmen on a beach somewhere in Indonesia. Then a friend, Cecile, joins the search, and the notional “business”, as partner and she raises the idea of liveaboards and Indonesia. Whatever the reason is, I start looking at dive centres for sale, some even come complete with attached bars and beach frontage but none really tick the boxes. Then in December 2015 something changes an epiphany.Įxactly why, I can’t say, but maybe it’s the milestone birthday in a few years, or just simply the realisation that there was still the unfulfilled dream that somehow gnaws like an unscratched itch. All this time I’m still continue with my “normal” job, albeit now in SE Asia, and I’m still an AOW, diving regularly around the region. Sometimes it comes to the fore, always with the same catalysts namely, vacations, around sunset on a beach after a day’s diving with a cold beer in hand. I’m sure that every recreational diver has had the same dream. But this is how and when mine started.īetween 19 life goes on, marriage, 2 wonderful children and divorce, but throughout it all there is still the dream nestling somewhere in the recesses of my mind. Discover.” Mark TwainĦ months later I’m doing my AOW in Comoros and two things happen, firstly the diving is spectacular and I fall in love with diving and secondly, and probably over a beer, an idea forms, the dream of “doing something” with diving, perhaps owning a dive centre with an attached bar on a beach somewhere. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. It was new, interesting, the water was warm, and I obtained my PADI Open Water certification. By sheer coincidence, this story starts twenty years ago in 1997, when I had just become an expatriate in Dubai and decided to learn to dive.
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