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Our former students: Ben & Jess

Jess and Ben did their PADI Instructor Course together with us in April 2023.


Where are you from and when and how did you start diving?

We are from the UK (Ben: England, Jess: Wales). We began diving on a visit to friends in Grand Cayman. They knew a guy who ran a dive company called Pirate Divers and recommended we have a go at their Open Water course. Upon our next visit we did our Advanced and the love-affair began.


Why did you decide to take your IDC?

Ben had always wanted to become an instructor, but had not yet found the right programme, Jess not so much. But when Indo Ocean Project offered us both a job in South Sulawesi on the condition one of us being an instructor our natural (but healthy) competitiveness took hold and neither one of us could imagine the other being the more qualified so we both signed up.


Former IDC students Purple Dive
Happy instructors!


How was your experience with your instructor course at Purple Dive?

Purple Dive was an extraordinary place to study. The course was intense, but incredibly well structured and we came out bursting with knowledge. All the staff members involved, particularly Helene and Yvonne were incredibly inspiring and by the time the exam came about it was unthinkable that any of us would not pass.


Since you have finished your professional training, what have you been up to?

We have been living in Bira, South Sulawesi. Here we have been working for Indo Ocean Project, training divemasters and research divers, readying them for wherever they see their careers heading, be it as a dive professional, marine biologist, or just continuing to explore the ocean.


What is your best dive to this day?

For Jess, on Bira's Great Wall dive site, being amongst ten devil rays as they circled her group.

For Ben, probably a tie between a lucky whale shark whilst holding a search and recovery workshop on the Blue Planet, Bira house reef (the unexpected is always the best), or exploring the wreck of the Mohegan off the coast of South Cornwall.


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