Best-Trained Guides in Indonesia – Part I
Sep 29, 2014
- Dive Center
If you were to make a recipe for an amazing Lembeh dive guide, it might look something like this:
Ingredients:
1 strong, healthy young person
2 cups of enthusiasm
1 tablespoon of talent for finding rare, camouflaged and tiny animals
1 litre of intuition and customer-service skills
2 heaps of ‘book learning’
a dash of dive equipment repair know-how
1 pack of underwater photography knowledge and experience
5 quarts of mentoring and role-modeling
Regular doses of safety, first aid and rescue training
Instructions:
Gently mix ingredients together and allow the guide to rise. Immerse 3 to 4 times daily in warm, critter-abundant water for several years, with regular infusions of new knowledge, feedback and training. – by Lauren Siba