I kicked of the season by staing indoors, I have been with Tero (my instructor) to Flamingo "helping" him and learning how to teache Discover scuba diving, or like we call it Introduction to scuba diving, or Intro

My personal goal is to be a Assistant Instructor  or AI. I still have a way to go but baby steps, baby steps.

So my timetable for this year has been:

12.4.2012:
Spa&Wellness Flamingo, Vantaa (a discover scuba course)

6.5.2012:
Porvoo Uimahalli (Public swimming pool in Porvoo) Where my frind Åke did his intro to diving.

12-13.5.2012
Kaatiala louhos, Kuortane (a old quarry i Kuortane, very popular with the finnish divers, the pics that I'll upload sre from this quarry.)

20.5.2012
Test diving a long the 120-road from Helsinki to Vihti, there is a couple of places you can acces the water but not recommended. It´s old 1-1,5 meters shallow.

16.6.2012
My RD course. We did the Rescue Diver course confined water @ Flamingo, Vantaa and from there we drove to Vessö, Porvoo and did the open water part of the course. What a day that was. A hole course in one day, luckely we did the theory  couple of weeks ago.

The next dives (not yet planed) will be just to dive, no courses for the moment. Just relaxing dives.
And get my dive count to 50 dives, so I can participate in the Divemaster course, hopefully in the end of this sesaon.

The following pics are Us goofing around @ Kaatiala quarry in Kuortane

Hi everybody!

I've bee a bit lazy during the winter and I must admit that I had forgotten my own blog.
Well that's going to change, from now to the end of this dive season I will try to write of everydive.


I started this season with my first icedive on Feb 26th 2012, the dive it self was only 7 min but pure gold, or should I say ice. The air temperatyre was +2C and @ 10,2 m the water was +1C.
For all you sceptics, these pics were taken with my Iphone 4 @ -10C, so it realy works at below zero. :)

Picing the wear out from Tero's car

Trying to untangle the saftyline...

That was fun, could't do it with gloves and could't be with out gloves...

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The season 2011 is over...

Hi everybody!
Well as the title says, my dives are over for this season... I reached my goals for this year. From May to October, 35 dives, a total divetime of 17h 20min and 2 courses (OWD and AOWD). I´ll upload pics from the last 5-10 dives as soon as I have the time.

Dive summary to date

Dive summary to date is 22 dives and 788 minutes. My goal for this year is 1000 minutes. It shouldn´t be impossible, there are at least 4-5 divestrips left in the calender. Every trip is at least 2-3 dives and one cylinder of air is good for about 40-50 minutes @ my current consumtionrate.

Pulkkilanharju 4.9.2011



Surfacing...



Trying a handstand

Trying to be cute, I guess...

Another try at a handstand

In total 3 dives and 49min.

Iso-Melkutin, Loppi

On Sunday I went to Iso-Melkutin near Loppi, Finland. It was just a recreation dive because it´s been too long since my last dive. Next weekend there will be a wedding underwater. Tero, my diving instructor will be attending the wedding so it was a dress rehearsal for him.

After the dress rehearsal I got Tero´s camera and started taking pictures, and here they are...

The pictures aren´t chronological, because I renamed them.

In this pictuse there should be a perch in the middle

Some bubbles

Again, bubbles

A cool pic from down under...

The following pics are of Elise

Here´s Elise and Miska

And these are of Miska (I think this is the best picture I´ve ever taken)

This one is of Tero and so are the following pics...

It was only 12m to the bottom but I think this a nice pic...

Tero and his Posseidon Rebreather