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Gregor Fabikan

By on January 29, 2011 in Gregor Fabikan
Gregor Fabikan Best Dive Job in the World Application

Gregor Fabikan Best Dive Job in the World Application

Hi my name is Greg, I am from Austria,
21 years old and I want to live for better days!

That’s the reason why I want this amazing job!
I love diving, surfing and of course Bali too!
For me the worlds best combination of sport, fun and living.
Me and my Girlfriend want to go abroad and therefore I am looking for something to make that true.

I did my OWD course last year and I was totally stoked of it. After diving in the Maldives I decided to become dive master and make my hobby to my job, because I want to live the way I like.
I’ve been two times before in Bali and I always wished and dreamed to stay there again, but longer than 3 weeks.
It’s such an amazing island and culture and I think it’s the very best place to be, because Bali has just everything to offer.
Nice people, weather, waves, vulcanos, delicious food and much more things.

For me the best place is in the water. When I am in this awesome element of pure nature I am the happiest people on earth and my mind is totally free of any troubles or things which I really don’t want to think on it.
I am only concentrating of what I am doing and that makes me relax and feel free.
It’s like you are diving out of the “Truman show”!
No others who make you busy, just another world much beautiful and interesting than ours.
I am always fascinated when this colourful world surrounds me.
When I see animals which are as big as me or maybe bigger than me, I am always so fascinated of these creatures.
Just sitting and looking at the water is a special feeling.

I also want to do something for the environment and I think diving is not a bad idea to show people what is going to die in cause of pollution.
It would be very sad if we lost this amazing world.

Gregor Fabikan Best Dive Job in the World Application

Gregor Fabikan Best Dive Job in the World Application

I like travelling and I wish that I can see most places on earth. Our world is still beautiful and we should take the chance to enjoy and explore it and I think diving is a really good way to do that.

I often thought about jobs which would be possible for me to do in another country like Bali and I really think that diving is the best I can do, because I like it so much and I’m also good in it.
Playing basketball since I was ten helped me to get team spirit. I like to work with other people, because there are always new and interesting things to learn from different ways of life.

Diving is also a very expensive hobby, that’s also a reason why I want to do it as my job.

If I should win this chance I’ll give my best to make my dream come true.

Stop dreaming, start living!
Best regards,
Greg

Stepan Shulga

By on January 28, 2011 in Stepan Shulga

Stepan Shulga Best Dive Job in the World Application

Stepan Shulga Best Dive Job in the World Application

Hello! My name is Stepan Shul’ga. I am 29. I live in Donetsk, the city in eastern Ukraine. I work as an announcer at a magnificent football stadium, as a DJ on the radio and an anchorman on the culinary TV show. For a number of reasons I dream of changing my life once and forever by becoming a PADI instructor.

  1. I would very much like to dive every day, though I don’t have such possibility. You are welcome to watch my video here
  2. My friends. They support me in my every undertaking, they do so even now. It’s been long since  I promised to instruct many of them on diving shortly, so I should keep my word. I am confident that with your assistance I will never disappoint their expectations.
  3. My parents. They are wonderful people, they truly love me, however they still keep telling me that diving can hardly become my profession. I strive to disprove it.
  4. Another significant yet not most serious reason is that it is absolutely freezing in my city now, with no chance to tan. I would be happy to change warm gloves for sunscreen.

Being serious, I am endlessly thankful to my instructor. That’s ALEXEY BAYSTRUCHENKO (No.635670).  He opened up alternative reality to me, the splendid underwater universe. Everything connected with diving – which seems quite clear to me now – I learnt from my instructor. By the way, it was him who gave me the web link to this contest. I cannot let my mentor down, I’d rather out perform him. In fact, for me there is no bigger responsibility and joy in the world than the possibility to open the undersea wonders to the people from every part of the world, to instruct them on diving and enjoy it. Everyone who has ever got acquainted with mysterious and silent depths was always grateful to the instructor. So there is a chance of making a lot of people happy by becoming the PADI professional. I am fully ready to take responsibility and enjoy it at the same time, being the very reason why I may well deserve this job.

Just a few words about myself: I am fond of people as much as they are fond of me. J I just love diving as a lifestyle.

Russian and Ukrainian are my native languages; I speak fluent English and a little Spanish.

Over 100 logged dives, PADI AOWD certificate plus experiences of the Black Sea, Red Sea and the Mediterranean. So, there are just a few oceans still left to discover for the peace of mind.

Please do not hesitate to add me up to your Facebook friends.

It will make it easier for you to read my notes about Bali J

Thanks for your time,

Stepan.

Lily Wolfe

By on January 27, 2011 in Lily Wolfe

Why I want to be a diving instructor

by Elizabeth Wolfe

My first diving experience in 2006 was thanks to my Grandparents who surprised me and my brothers with an OWD course in Spain, where I lived with my family at the time. After I had completed the course, my Divemaster asked why I didn’t look for a career in diving. He seemed impressed with my quick learning and thought that I could become a brilliant instructor some day. This was something that I had never thought about, yet since he said that I just couldn’t keep the thought out of my head.

When I was 18 in 2009 I moved to Germany on a gap year to work as a nanny. I found a dive shop in Hamburg, walked in and my first words were “I want to be a diving instructor”. Since then I have stayed in Germany to work and fund my dream. Everything I have done since then has been to do with making my dive instructor dream come true. The costs of such a dream make it very hard work to fund, but it would never hold me back. To win this opportunity would just complete my life and help me to fast track my inevitable destiny.

I want to become a diving instructor because I want to show other people the wonder of scuba diving… I want to be the reason why other people decide to continue a life of diving.

This is me: – Some people live off the air, I live off water..

Lily Wolfe Best Dive Job in the World

Lily Wolfe Best Dive Job in the World

Joseph Nowak

By on January 24, 2011 in Joseph Nowak
Joseph Nowak Best Dive Job in the World

Joseph Nowak Best Dive Job in the World

Life happens, but then at some point, you can re-create yourself. When I was 50, I decided that life was not yet done. So rather than being 50 years old, I decided that I was merely celebrating 25, again. I learned to dance, to swim a mile, and to bench-press my own weight. I learned to surf. I learned to scuba dive. Now that I am 30 for the second time, I considered going back to school. But, I decided that yet another Master’s would not be self re-invention, merely a repeat. So, when my local dive shop offered a PADI Dive Master Course, I took the giant stride entry. I don’t have to do this. I am happily married, live in Philadelphia. I have a respectable and responsible career as an Investment Manager. I speak a number of languages and travel extensively. Life is fine, if I am 60.

But if I am 30 for the second time, then re-invention is possible.

I remember my first dive, in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua where I learned to dive. As I sat on the side of the bobbing boat, wearing 40lbs of gear, on a beautiful day, looking at the distant coastline, and breaking waves, feeling very queasy, I thought, “what the hell am I doing here?” Then though my mind came the lines, “if you tumble through the raging waters of the sea, you will not drown. Be not afraid. I am with you always.” Yes, it is part of a church hymn. My scuba instructor, Mark McKaye was next to me. Reassured, hand on mask and reg, other hand on weight belt, I back rolled into the Pacific. WOW.

Now 3 years later, I am a PADI Master Scuba Diver. Thank you Mark, who taught me to dive, Georgia King, Quepos CR, who taught me Rescue Diver and how to help people, Dick Walker in Utila, HN who taught me Wreck Diving and prefect buoyancy, Niels Jorisson, Curacao, who taught me how to breath to extend my dive times and all of the other divers and surfers in Central America who taught me so much more about life, while having fun.

And a special thanks to Derek Freres, in Philadelphia, my IDC Instructor, who is making me a much better diver and a dive master, and who taught me to laugh under water. All people with passion for diving and for life, who give such great joy to the people they train. The sheer joy of the first dive and the hundredth dive, the elation of each new skill learned and improved, the beauty and adventure of each dive site. “Do unto others”. Clearly, Investment Managers earn way more money than Scuba Instructors. But Scuba Instructors both in what they give as well as receive, generate far greater value. Bali would be a complete metamorphosis to offer the skills, grace and beauty of diving to so many fellow travelers.

Stephanie

By on January 24, 2011 in Stephanie

It’s been 10 days since my video was posted online…
Now it’s maybe time to say a few words about me!

What you need to know is quite simple : I love life!!! And I do everything I can to LIVE. Live in its deepest sense.
My secret is simple : being able to listen to myself and follow my heart…
It might be scary sometimes, because it might lead out of the “normal” life one should have… but my priority is to make choices that are always consistent with my values.

This is what I did when I decided to cross West Africa by land, when I crossed China and Russia by train, or travelled for another year in Asia.
This is what I did when I decided to fight against child sexual abuse in Cambodia, work with refugees, or visit prisonners of war in areas of conflict.
This is also what I recently did when I decided to turn towards a new career after I discovered scuba diving.

I just came home from my last mission and am leaving to Belize in a few days for a volunteering project in marine conservation.

I studied management and speak five languages (French, English, German, Spanish and Dutch).
I’m sensitive to people’s mood and needs.
I’m spontanous and honest but diplomatic.
I love challenges. I love having to adapt to sudden changes, and I’m good at it.
People say I’m fun and funny.
I’m curious and love to discover new things, new cultures, new environments.

And last but not least, I’m a mermaid, I need to go home!!!!
You can even sing the following song to support me (sing to the tune of Hit the road Jack): “I’m a mermaid, I need to go home, pick me pick me pick me pick me!”
:-)

See you soon maybe!
If not, may you all be happy and able to pursue your dreams!

Steph

David Bizant

By on January 22, 2011 in David Bizant

Dave Bizant - Best Dive Job Application

Dave Bizant – Best Dive Job Application

“Why I want to change my life and become a PADI scuba Instructor”

Hi! I’m Dave Bizant, I live and breathe scuba diving! Diving has challenged and rewarded me from my Open Water Course in 2006 through to my current Divemaster program in 2011. My dream is to live and work diving so I can open the door for others to see the amazing creatures and diversity of life living under the waves.

Home: Canberra, Australia. University: James Cook University, Townsville Australia. Money: Horse Racing! I work in a betting agency! What I do: Dive for work or work to Dive, It’s one or the other. What I enjoy: Watching a stressed or anxious diver become settled enough to start pointing at fish in amazement.

Looking at the competition it seems unlikely that a soon to finish Uni student who seems to go diving quite regularly would be a good choice for such an awesome opportunity. I guess the reasons I should win would be my commitment to the students I would eventually be teaching. As a PADI instructor I would strive to be the best, safest and most fun instructor out there! Diving is meant to be fun so an instructor with a positive attitude and commitment to the PADI ideals and standards provides a great intro into the

sport and culture of diving. My Blog skills and photography skills are the other bonus, I think I can tell a half decent yarn and I know I can take some all right photos (as you can see hopefully). So they are my winning features hopefully they can get me over the line, if not will see you in the water some time!

Dave Bizant - Best Dive Job Application

Dave Bizant – Best Dive Job Application

Attempting to enter the correct mindset of a PADI professional is my most recent challenge, It is not only dive skills, ability and physical fitness that make a great Dive Instructor, It’s the interpersonal skills, role modeling and ability to inspire the students to want to learn new skills whilst reassuring them and making them feel safe and ultimately competent underwater.

How much of this comes from natural talent or can be learned I’m unsure. I desperately strive and hope I can achieve this.

A Rescue diver gets the itch to teach: Buddied with a novice diver, an older lady who does not seem confident, The skipper prepares her as I enter the water. I yell from the water “Check her BCD has air in it”, no response, is he testing me? Is he testing her? She hits the cold water, instantly her hand goes up waving side to side, something’s not right. I grab her tank valve, inflate her BCD fully and reassure her. Her breathing slows as I tow her to the anchor chain and we easily descend down the line into the big blue for two fantastic clear dives. A great sense of achievement fills me.

Sincerely

Dave Bizant

Jeremia

By on January 21, 2011 in Jeremia
Jeremia Best Dive Job Application

Jeremia Best Dive Job Application

Yuhuu! I’m Jeremia Sir Nindyo Mamola Sembiring Brahmana, but you can call me Jeremia, a passionate 23 years old junior architect and technical secretary at my university. Next month I would graduate as a bachelor in architecture!

I love nature, be it sea, mountain, or jungle, etc. I like hiking, mountaineering, camping, climbing, biking, swimming, photography and many others (i always wear short pants in these occasions, rain or shine). I’m an open minded and easy going person. I’m used to working under pressure and tension. I fancy challenges, especially in outdoor activities. I like to learn about something new, included surfing and cultures (from what i saw and learn, Balinese culture are really unique)!

Just like i love nature, i love to nurture. Long ago, i had a dream of becoming a kindergarten teacher. Hard to believe eh? I find it interesting just imagining the process of passing my knowledge to others and watch their progress like a child grow. THAT would be fun!

Jeremia Best Dive Job Application

Jeremia Best Dive Job Application

Now, i’m an open water scuba diver. I took the course last year on Pramuka Island and it was amazing. After coming back from the trip, i started planning a lot of dive trips (well, most of which aren’t entirely feasible), watching dive videos (especially the one where a diver swam through his own bubble ring, i’d like to try that too!). Lately, i’ve been spending a lot of time reading books related to marine life especially “Ocean” (foreword by Fabien Cousteau himself). All these videos and books give me the urge to go dive and dive! Lack of moisture and salt on my body is giving an itch in my skin because of its dryness and blandness!

As an Indonesian, I feel sad at the fact that there are so many people (including Indonesian themselves) who aren’t aware of the beauty of Indonesia’s seas (including Bali of course). If I become a PADI instructor, I can introduce the seas and it’s marine life to people, so they could understand, aware, and in turn care about them (most of all, enjoys being part of it!).

If i should win this, the first persons to be trained by me would be my parents. From my first dive I’ve promised myself that I wouldn’t let them be without ever knowing the wonder of underwater life.

If you ask me, why should I win? The answer is clear. This is my calling, vocation, to enjoy the underwater world, teaching others about marine life and encourage them to care about the sea. For I am the person that really (-really) loves the sea.

What i love is:

her breeze, that brings up her soft sweet scent;

her horizon, where true love meets forever;

her wave, that forms her beautiful surface and  the grand orchestra of rippling sound;

her brine, that warms my blood at day and sends chill down my spine at night;

her underwater life, that reminds me of my passion and my long lost fantasy.

Ocean…

Nicole Bradon

By on January 19, 2011 in Nicole Bradon

Nicole Bradon Best Dive Job Application

Nicole Bradon Best Dive Job Application

My name is Nicole Louise Bradon, I’m twenty one years old and I feel like every moment I spend in my home town is spent existing, rather than living. In the summer of 2010, I spent one month in Guidel, France where I fell in love once again with the beach there, watching the surfers and hoping to have a beach life as my “everyday life” eventually. After coming home for a month, I booked an interrail ticket, took off and backpacked around Europe for another month, travelling parts of Croatia, Italy, Austria, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, France and The Netherlands.

I love beautiful places that inspire me, challenge me and satisfy me. There is so much I want to see, Bali is top of my list and this opportunity would blow my mind. I’ve always wanted to learn to scuba dive and thought I would probably learn when I finally get to travel Australia. To learn and become an instructor in Bali is on another level! l’d love to learn to surf too!

I want to change my life because I am a waitress in Grays, Essex and it doesn’t inspire, challenge or satisfy me. Grays is exactly how it sounds, grey. Every day is mundane. As much as it will always be “home”, I don’t want to flitter my life away, wake up in years to come and feel like I didn’t atleast try out for every opportunity possible. I remember an assembly I once had in secondary school, it sounds a bit corny but I think I will remember what this teacher said for the rest of my life, he had a world map and told us “there is a huge world out there and don’t waste your life in just one corner of it”, I see people that are content to live their life in this one corner of it and that’s fine for them but it isn’t enough for me. Since finishing college three years ago, I haven’t been sure at any point of what career I want, or particularly need, all I have

Nicole Bradon Best Dive Job Application

Nicole Bradon Best Dive Job Application

known is that I want to travel, and settle somewhere beautiful and find the right job along the way. The chance to be a PADI Instructor in Bali is the ultimate for me, an amazing job in an amazing place.

About me? I’m a friendly person, a go-with-the-flow type, I laugh all the time, I’m quietly ambitious, I’m passionate and sometimes fiery, I love music and people, I love new experiences, new food, new cultures. Eggs make me sneeze. I love summer and the sun, the way it makes every one seem friendlier and the way every one looks better with a tan! I have a gap in my front teeth, which is supposed to be lucky… I’m still waiting to find out if that’s true. I don’t know if I am the most deserving person in the world for this opportunity, but I know every part of me wants this.

Steve Fitzpatrick

By on January 15, 2011 in Steve Fitzpatrick

Hello, my name is Steve Fitzpatrick and my one true passion in life has always been the ocean. I’m 20 years old and currently a student of State University at Oneonta in New York. I’m majoring in mass communications because I want to work on and eventually produce nature documentaries. My strong points include being hard-working, friendly, and the ability to grow a gnarly beard at will.

Steve Fitzpatrick Best Dive Job Application

Steve Fitzpatrick Best Dive Job Application

I’ve been captivated by the ocean since I was 3 years old when my father first took me out fishing on his boat in the Long Island Sound. Since then we have managed to make it far offshore to the continental shelf and have encountered populations of large pelagic marine life. Unfortunately New York is too cold to be out on the water for a huge portion of the year, so I’m forced to sit back and endure a cold winter with no ocean to quench my thirst.

Ever since I started diving just a few years ago I’ve had some of the most amazing experiences of my life. My most intense diving moment would have to be a shark dive I did in the Bahamas where Caribbean reef sharks surrounded my dive group to feed and even occasionally bumped into me. No matter how intense, every dive I’ve been on has ended with an indescribable feeling of peace, and as a PADI Instructor I would be able to share this feeling with the world.

I began filming my experiences on the water in hopes of creating videos that will show the beauty of the marine world to people who otherwise never would have been able to see it for themselves. As a PADI dive instructor I would be able to go one step further and be responsible for showing my students the ocean’s allure first hand. I believe if we can show as many people as possible what this world has to offer, we can gain support towards protecting it for future generations to enjoy, just as we do today.

Everyone wants a career that they love going to everyday and I’m no different, but regardless of this contest’s outcome I will keep pushing towards my goal of living my life on the ocean. I plan on continuing my diving as soon as possible and even starting a video blog about my aquatic adventures. What better place to start then Bali? So choose me to win the best dive job in the world and give me the chance to change my life and show people the best way to experience the world that I love. You won’t be disappointed!

Helen Shepperson

By on January 14, 2011 in Helen Shepperson

Helen Shepperson Best Dive Job Application

Helen Shepperson Best Dive Job Application

Hi, I’m Helen, 19, from England, and this is why you should pick me for the Best Dive Job in the World!

When I was little, my teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a mermaid. She told me I couldn’t because it wasn’t a real job. Pah! This is partly why I want to win – to prove the silly cow wrong!

My absolute first passion in life is travelling. This year I set off exploring Australia, New Zealand and Borneo. I climbed mountains, jumped off waterfalls, out of a plane, white water rafted, black water rafted, trekked the jungle, slept under stars, swam with whale sharks, got the obligatory backpacker scooter burn on my leg, worked on a dolphin monitoring program, watched a hell of a lot of sunsets, survived a cyclone and a tsunami and – basically – had the most insanely amazing time of my life. But the best and most significant thing I did, was learn to dive!

Helen Shepperson Best Dive Job Application

Helen Shepperson Best Dive Job Application

I have completely and utterly fallen in love with diving. Everything from the physical sport aspect, to the marine life, to the whole lifestyle and atmosphere – it’s just downright perfect. I have a grand total of 7 dives under my weight belt, but this just means that everything I see and do is more often than not still a first and therefore sooooo effin’ cool!!! And if I’m completely honest, a little bit scary – but doesn’t that just add to the fun?

I’m just not the ‘office job’ type of person; “9-to-5” is something I hope NEVER enters my vocabulary (unless it is a super extended happy hour…). I am an eternal backpacker who will continue to travel for the rest of my life, and what possible better way is there to achieve this than to combine it with diving!

On my Open Water course, it turned out someone in the group couldn’t actually swim. Over the three days I witnessed him learn to swim, and subsequently learn to dive. The sense of achievement was great, and it was pretty cool to be part of such a special moment. That’s the type of feeling I imagine happening again and again as a PADI Instructor, and that’s why I would be honoured to win this.

In terms of social media, I’m just starting up a blog based on my travels, and I also use Facebook and Twitter regularly – so I am highly qualified to spread the word and let everyone know what an amazing time we’re having!

I am a confident, happy-go-lucky beach bum that loves meeting new people and experiencing new things. I work hard, party harder, and put my all into everything I do. I promise I will not let you down. For me, this wouldn’t just be a job; it’d be an absolute dream come true. (Wow, that was cheesy.)

So, pick me for the Best Dive Job in the World, and let the good times roll!

Liz

By on January 14, 2011 in Liz

Liz from Medan, Best Dive Job in the World ApplicationFrom the moment I received the email about the best dive job in the world, I knew this is it, the job that can change my life, for whole my life I just lived ordinary life, so hey I need something new, something that I don’t need to sit behind desk for 8 hours, I need some challenging, some adventure if I may say, because stay in bali for 7months is a challenge I would love to!

So Let me introduce myself, I’m Lilis, everybody call me LIZ, I’m from Medan, Indonesia, I’ve been working since I’m graduate from University, nothing “wow” if I may say in my job. now I’m 27 years old, my friends always said I’m an active girl, they said I need a job where I could express myself, something fill with adventure plus a challenge, something that make me didn’t feel any bored!

and now Let me tell you why I deserve this best job ever, because I love travelling (who doesn’t eh?) especially to exotic places like Bali, beside that I love water, not just water that we used to drink, I mean about ocean and the stuff. I just wish I could live and work near beaches and dive all the time!!

Maybe you and the team going to hear this a lot in another entry and lack of Diving skill but HEY!! I want to say it out LOUD! I’m keen to learn, full of fun, and off course full of Passion!! And I really want to get this job, coz I really need some changes in my life and I already know what I want do with my hobbies and I want my hobbies be part of my job such as DIVING!

Juan Manuel Lopez

By on January 14, 2011 in Juan Manuel Lopez

Hi!

Juan Manual Lopex Best Dive Job in the World Application

Juan Manual Lopex Best Dive Job in the World Application

My name is Juan Manuel Lopez (Juanma).

I’m Spanish and live in Canary Islands, Spain,

I’m 41 years old and I have 2 children, Javi, 6, and Eva, 2.

My job: Air Traffic Controller. My passion: Scubadiving. My paradise: Bali.

… and I really want to change my life!

After travelling to Bali seven times, the idea of calling Bali home just keeps buzzing in my head. For a while now, I just can’t stop picturing me and my family living there.

I love everything about Bali and I consider it the perfect place for me to work and enjoy life and for my children to grow up in. I’m even learning Bahasa Indonesia!

I love scuba diving, it has become my passion. I just can’t get enough of it. I’m a PADI Divemaster and I have logged around 500 dives in many places throughout the world. I like underwater photography too.

These pictures are just a sample of what you can find in my website: www.scubaplanet.es

Honestly, a scubadiving job in Bali would be my dream come true!

Actually, I had already started seriously to look into finding ‘that’ job and moving to Bali…and then I found you!, I thought: ‘I can’t believe it, just what I’m looking for!’

I consider myself a very energetic person, not afraid of challenges, enthusiastic and friendly. I’m always ready to enjoy the good and simple things in life, playing with my children, a beer with a friend, a nice sunset, a good dive, or an afternoon at the beach, for instance, surfing in Kuta Beach (surfing is my other passion).

… I’m absolutely ready for a change… the change!

Thanks for your time and YES!… I want the ‘Best Dive Job in The World’!

Hope you to see you soon :-)

Best regards and Terima Kasih

Juanma

Kathi Gleim

By on January 13, 2011 in Kathi Gleim

Kathi Gleim Best Dive Job in the World Application

Kathi Gleim Best Dive Job in the World Application

The alarm clock is set for 4:30 a.m. so I can arrive at the hospital for my scheduled 12‐hour shift. The shift always becomes 16 or 20‐hours because of severe staffing shortages. I leave for work before it is light outside and arrive home well after dark. Weekend and Holiday are foreign words. Every day I care for babies of all ages. I take care of others’ loved ones while my own are at home without me.

All day I clean up poop, urine, vomit, sputum, blood—any bodily fluid imaginable—and am exposed to all of the latest diseases. I take health histories from people who know more about what Lindsay Lohan is wearing than they do about their own medication and health condition. Many of the people I care for are killing themselves with food, drink, and drugs.

I’m sure the patients I care for are delightful people, but sick and injured folks, who have waited 4+ hours in the waiting room, have little tolerance for humor and joviality. I can’t blame them, but I wish I could remember the last time I worked a shift without being yelled at by someone.

Kathi Gleim Best Dive Job in the World Application

Kathi Gleim Best Dive Job in the World ApplicationMy nickname at work is TAZ (as in Tasmanian Devil), because of my efficiency. (Well, partly because of my humorous pranks, but mostly because of my efficiency.) I can enter a room, complete ten tasks (and set up one prank) before anyone realizes I was in the room. Frequently, I get assigned the most critical patients. I know this is a compliment to my skill level, but it also means I deal with more trauma, more infant deaths, and more complicated social issues than most. It’s also the reason I HAVE TO maintain my sense of humor.

Kathi Gleim Best Dive Job in the World Application

Kathi Gleim Best Dive Job in the World Application

When my head hits the pillow, I should be so exhausted that sleep comes easily, but the replay button goes off, and I think about the CODE we had and how it could have gone better. Did Mrs. Smith make it? Did Mr. Jones get his sandwich?

Why do I do this? Because when the team wins, and that one patient, patient’s family or co‐worker comes up to me and says, “You made a difference,” I feel good. AND, I do it to support my love of diving and adventure. I can only dream of a job where I see sunlight and all the participants want to be there, willingly engaging in healthy activity.

Where the sirens in my head turn off and are replaced by slow breathing and blue bubbles. Where the only bodily fluids I will be exposed to is the dried spit on a shared regulator.

Why do I want to change my life and become a PADI Instructor?

Because I have seen:

Broken bones, broken teeth, goo in fat folds, objects in orifices, stabbings and shootings, heroin addicts and heart attacks. But I have never seen Bali. My name is Kathi, and BOY do I want a change.

Antoine Poircuitte

By on January 11, 2011 in Antoine Poircuitte
Antoine Best Dive Job in the World Application

Antoine Best Dive Job in the World Application

My name is Antoine I am 28 years old French. I live in Vietnam since November 2008. I decided to leave France to get more freedom in my life. I had been in the wine business for a wine distributor in Vietnam, Lao and Cambodia (wine is a great passion). Currently I am restaurant manager for a French restaurant.

Ireally enjoyed those last two years that allowed to me to meet many different people from worldwide, discovered a new culture, new way of life.  Today I want to move forward and enjoy a new life turn.

I don’t want “change” my life because I don’t want change who I am nor erase the past. Through what I already got I really want evaluate and continue the adventure.

Become PADI instructor would be an amazing springboard for a new start. I am ready to be educated and pass on this passion to other. I always looking for a life’ project and this one match one hundred percent to my wish and my will.

That is true that without this opportunity I wouldn’t have thought of becoming PADI instructor and that s because I will be able to use all the energy, all the excitation, all the positive motivation of a radical turn.

What is more exciting than a radical life turn?? Luck doesn’t smile to those who sulk…I am like a sponge waiting in the deep blue water of Bali ready to absorb the chance you will offer.

Become diving instructor sounds very nice and arouse to me a great interest. Since always I feel in peace when I am in water. I am lifeguard since I am 18 and continue to swim as much as I can. I am really attracted to live close to the sea and be in relation with nature especially with the sea. I come from a farmer family (mother side and father side) and was educated through a nature respect way. My first wish was to be winemaker, and I got a master in wine business and regulation. I keep a passion for the wine.

That is excited myself in this challenge, is to have an amazing long-term project through a great job. I dive sometime when I am in holidays and really took great time. I am confident to use this great opportunity in the right way and develop the chance you will give me. I don’t see this opportunity as “nice holidays” or just good time in Bali. The fact to learn a great job and to develop it is a great chance that I would like to take.

Choose me and you will hire a positive, energic, life lover person who enjoy the surprises of an adventure life.

I am ready to give everything in this project and enjoy the new amazing way you are offering. Hope diving soon with you and discover great new universes under warter as on earth.

Wish you the best for this New Year.

Antoine

Pat Brennan

By on January 11, 2011 in Pat Brennan
Pat Brennan Best Dive Job Application

Pat Brennan Best Dive Job Application

While reading the Cyber Dive Network News your article about the “The Best Dive Job in the World” jumped out at me. Here I am looking for an Internship to finish my Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Management degree and these guys are offering a free one in Bali, yeah whatever…But I guess ill check it out. Here is a little bit about myself.

I am a 22 year old male who is motivated to succeed but I want to have fun while doing it. Like most people I want a fast car, a nice house, money to be able to travel and enjoy my recreation and leisure’s, and a super hot trophy wife.  I am a “go getter”, an entrepreneur, a frat boy, and an opportunist. In college I partnered up with a Fraternity brother to start a sunglasses business. Out of the 10,000 students at Radford University 1200 of them are rocking them on campus. In my management class we had to write a business plan. My creativeness and unique style of marketing helped me to start my SCUBA website Underwater Pleasure LLC. (underwaterpleasure.com). While my conservative teacher bashed me for my slogan “Come GET WET With Us” I proved her wrong  by coming up with some pretty creative marketing and advertising that could capture the demographics and market share I was leaning toward. Sex sells right… I recently just started a Real Estate business where I pulled in an investor and just finished flipping my first foreclosed house. I have also submitted two ideas into online invention firms (which I think are a scam anyways) and tried to create my own charity Ipod application called Carespender. But let’s get on to the important $h*t…

Pat Brennan Best Dive Job Application

Pat Brennan Best Dive Job Application

The “Best Dive Job in the World” is simply another opportunity that I cannot surpass. I am a PADI OW diver and an outdoor enthusiast. Traveling and the thought of doing business in an emerging market has been a life long dream of mine and this is one way you can make my dream come true. Successful companies often start as small “stories” but later evolve to something bigger by the customers evangelizing and storytelling about it. With social media turning the internet into a “social environment” (facebook, twitter, youtube, ect), words and stories are spreading like cancer. I love diving but I also want to raise awareness through sharing our stories, ideas, and traveling the world to see the beauty and the destruction of our world and oceans first hand. I think it is important for every business to be technically competent and to be knowledgeable about upcoming business ideas and trends.  Lucky for us the SCUBA diving trend is just beginning. Green this, green that, “The Ultimate Diver Challenge” T.V. series blah de de blah blah blah.  It’s happening now and I want in right at the beginning.  Let me come to Bali and “Get Wet”…

Silo Young

By on January 10, 2011 in Silo Young
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Silo Young Best Dive Job Application

To be honest, in my early twenties, I have had everything a modern girl is supposed to want – rich boyfriend, lovely family members, and good-salary job – but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, I often feel consumed by panic and confusion. Instead of keeping busy like before, I made a quick decision in last Oct and took my parents to Bali for a short holiday.

Unexpectedly, I found out a different lifestyle in Bali, the way I never imaged before, falling in love with Bali naturally.
Luckily, I had the first diving experience there. From my childhood, I’ve been a good swimmer, but never have any information or contact about diving.

During my stay in Bali, I experienced a fun dive in Nusa Dua and found out everything I have seen under the sea was so amazing and the feeling of diving shocked me and surprised me a lot. I think falling in love with diving is also easy and natural.

Silo Young Best Dive Job Application

Silo Young Best Dive Job Application

I’m from Beijing, China, being an office lady now who is always sitting in the chair and the thing I contact most is my computer every day. Is it a boring life huh? Yep, I know it’s time for me to make a change and I am ready for it.

Ok, I really want to go back to Bali and stay for longer period, not for holiday, but for experience, to experience all kinds of Bali. Please forgive me my poor expression here, but I do want all of you to consider about me. An enthusiast, kind Chinese girl, with the passion of diving, hopes to help people and seize this great opportunity to change my life. Thanks.

Birgitta Vesten

By on January 10, 2011 in Birgitta Vesten

Best Dive Job ApplicationOnce a part of time…..it was alittle girl growing up in a small village close to the forrest in the middle of Sweden. Didn´t know about the world out there.

When she was 14 years young, after highschool she went on a school trip. They went to Riccione in Italy and saw Venezia & San Marino. A new world opened up for this little girl from the countryside. She desided allready then to conquer the world.

And she did, her whole life she has been travelling and working all over the world.

On her first around the world trip, she stopped in Cairns, Australia to do a dive course,

but something went wrong on the course, so she went sailing on a nice “swan” to the white sundays island, a dream she had, to see it.

Many years after she sees the competion about the “The best dive job in the world”

To live in Bali for 7 months, her favorit island in the world.

And she desided to conquer the world under the sea 😉

Why I should win the prize and change my life.

It`s a compleatly new world to me.

To discover the seaworld. I love opportunities & challenges in life.

Life is short and death is long, live today, tomorrow could be to late…..

Lerin Pierce

By on December 15, 2010 in Lerin Pierce

Lerin Pierce - Best Dive Job

Lerin Pierce - Best Dive Job

Having always spent as much time in the water as possible, diving was an inevitable fate for me. It was an uneventful Sunday afternoon; I found a show about cavern diving in South America. One hour and it had me – hook, line and sinker. I remember my first dive, for 32 minutes I was completely wonderstruck, euphoric. This is what I feel whenever I dive, from 1 to 100 feet of visibility.

I’ve been working on my Assistant Instructor through Humboldt State University. Being a part of students transition from the classroom to the pool to their 1st time in the ocean has been absolutely thrilling. There is a great sense of awe when you watch them find hidden treasures or when they realize a curious fish has been following them.

Lerin Pierce - Best Dive Job

Lerin Pierce - Best Dive Job

I’ve only been diving off the California coast (Burrrr!). I need to find out what warm water has to offer – the fish, coral, sponges, invertebrates, and know what it is like to dive in anything less than a 7mm wetsuit.

I live on the far north coast of California in Arcata, it’s a great little college/hippy town where the Redwood trees meet the ocean. I moved here to get away from the hustle, bustle and smog of southern California and to go to school. A bit about what I do and have done: I was on a swim team, started my pilot license, lifeguarded, studied Shotokan, got my self through college (Yea Oceanography!), currently work in an office & at Juvenile Hall supervising the kids, have dirtied my feet on the grounds of a few beautiful countries, like to climb trees & investigate most anywhere, got my AAUS certification and volunteer my time doing underwater surveys for Reef Check California, and have a deep need to expand my underwater memory book with memories of places all over the ocean – warm and cold water alike!

Lerin Pierce - Best Dive Job

Lerin Pierce - Best Dive Job

I want to become a dive instructor so I can pass on the beauty of the ocean. I want to help people see a glimpse of the Big Blue, Earths’ vast unknown. Show them the magnificence of underwater creatures and plants. This will be my way of helping people understand the urgency of not over-exploiting our oceans resources, to educate and see the awe in their eyes. I believe if someone experiences the exquisiteness of the ocean up close and personally, it may just keep them from throwing that beer can off the boat. I have wanted to own a dive shop for some time and am finally in a place to start taking steps toward that.

Help me – with fins on my feet and compressed air in my lungs, I’m ready to begin the next chapter of my life!

With hopes of seeing you soon,

Lerin Pierce

Patrick Tessier

By on December 15, 2010 in Patrick Tessier

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I want to be a PADI Instructor!


Hi, this is Patrick. I am 30 years old, single, and I am writing to you from the snowy, windy prairies of Canada.
“What the heck is that massive fish? Is that a whale shark from a very strange angle?”, is what I asked myself when I first saw the pictures of the Mola Mola on the Blue Season Bali Diving website.

So how did I get from sitting behind a desk doing the 9-5 thing a few months ago, to applying for the coolest prize on the planet? Rewind… I am what many would call a geek. I was a computer geek in my younger days, became a software engineer, and have worked in the industry for many years now. Not all of my time was spent behind a desk. I have always played one sport or another, and have always enjoyed martial arts in my spare time.

I recently decided that working hard most of the time, and having a little bit of fun outdoors with whatever time was left over, just did not cut it for me! So I left my office job, and started my adventure in the mountains; mountaineering, rock climbing… which I enjoyed no doubt. Then I made my way down to the rivers, lakes, and oceans in canoes, white water kayaks, and sea kayaks. I have also been snorkeling in various areas in the Caribbean and off the coast of Australia. Now we’re talkin’! Water rules! That is all there is to it.

Patrick Tessier - Best Dive Job Contestant

Patrick Tessier

I don’t know how many times I was sitting in my kayak enjoying the calm view of the forests and mountains, then I look over in the water, see some new critter I have never seen before and ask: “Cool, what the heck is that?!? Hmmm… Too bad I’m not wearing scuba gear right now…”. You certainly don’t need me to tell you what an awesome explosion of life and colour can be found in the oceans.

Unfortunately, I have not been scuba diving before. I have been no deeper than I can hold my breath with my snorkel. Maybe Blue Season Bali Diving can help change that! I cannot think of a better way to take the plunge and explore the amazing world under the ocean, than to spend 7 months with Blue Season Bali. I honestly have no idea where I would end up after those 7 months, but I can guarantee that I will have a heck of a lot of fun doing it! The life in the oceans fascinates me, I want to learn more about it.

If I were given the opportunity to become a PADI instructor, I would absolutely love to change my life and help show the world what an amazing abundance of life there is in the ocean.

Lets go diving!

Kenzo Kiren

By on December 11, 2010 in Kenzo Kiren


Return me to the Ocean

Kenzo Kiren - Best Dive Job in the World

Ever since I was a little boy I’ve been a fish in the water. On family vacations to Hawaii I was the 8 year old kid that stayed in the water until I had 75 year old wrinkles. Now at almost 23 years old I’m still drawn to it. I’m born and raised in Vancouver BC, now living as a struggling student halfway done his degree in kinesiology/fine arts but currently postponing my educational future, while contemplating my career choices, seeking one with a little more spice and exhilaration.

I’m a long time cook who’s devotedly been sweating in a kitchen for 4 years and quite eager to be refreshed from the hot kitchen by some soothing waters. My first diving experience was in South Africa and immediately I was hooked. Since then I’ve managed to get my open water certification, doing so in fashion as the only person in my class gutsy enough to wear a wetsuit in the chilly coastal BC waters. In retrospect, I shoulda paid the extra $80 for a dry suit, but being financially strapped I “chose” to be cold.

With 6 day work weeks and the lack of the almighty $ I don’t get to dive much at all, but after a much needed vacation to the Caribbean, I’ve decided that diving is what I NEED to do for the rest of my life. I am still fairly new to diving yet greatly intrigued by the many possibilities worldwide, so upon returning from my trip all I have done is researched scuba jobs. One regular old Friday afternoon I was sitting back having my coffee watching Wild Recon on Animal Planet (sharks of course), while surfing the net and fate occurred as I came across this contest.

Best Dive Job - PADI Instructor KenzoAt that moment my heart raced as if I were drifting through some Indonesian waters and suddenly was faced with a great white shark. This is the opportunity I need to change MY LIFE and become a PADI instructor. It is my dream job!! When diving, I feel a sort of tranquility by the silent yet explosive energy that life gives off under water. I have such great passion for not only the preservation and balance of our waters but also an overwhelming fascination to the vast variations of life within them.

PADI Instructor - Best Dive JobI’m an open minded, fast learning, extremely motivated individual full of energy. You bring me to Bali, and I will brighten your lives. I’ve loved the ocean since as long as I can remember and due to the lack of money and time, this is the only way I can spend the rest of my life living among it. When stressed I often tell people I’m sick of life on land, I belong in the ocean. Please help me break free from my tedious life as a cook and the confines of life in the city.

Help me live the life I was meant to live. This is my calling.

Sincerely,
Kenzo Kiren

Janelle Evan

By on December 9, 2010 in Janelle Evan
Janelle Evan - Best Dive Job Application

Janelle Evan - Best Dive Job Application

Janelle Evan - Best Dive Job Application

Janelle Evan - Best Dive Job Application

My name is Janelle Levine. I am 23 years old. I currently teach swimming and science, and positively adore both subjects. I also facilitate research groups for a breast cancer awareness program, and help design custom donuts (while dressed as a 40’s style nurse) for a living. I’d try anything twice, I’ve shaved my head, jumped out of a plane, and there is a reality show in pre¬production about my work life. I am obsessed with sharks, Moby Dick and giant squid, and every scuba mask that I have ever worn leaks because I giggle too much. Do I stand out yet? Didn’t think so…

So let me convince you that I have the perfect mentality to take full advantage of this opportunity.

When I was thirteen, I dropped out of school due to mitigating circumstances. For most of my adolescence I was regarded as a failed delinquent from a broken home. Ten years later, I am writing to you as a college graduate, an advanced open water diver, and as a testament to my killer ambition. And the next challenge I’ve decided to take on? Yup…scuba diving!
Last year, I became so fixated with learning to scuba dive that I took up a part-time job at a local dive shop for access to classes and I am ever grateful to the owner and staff, who have given me such a remarkable opportunity. I wish I could more actively pursue it, but three jobs plus dealing with life’s unexpected twists has left me, quite literally, no time.

In the past few years, I have been through the mill, experiencing everything from homelessness to bizarre injuries to endless hours at dead-end jobs (and trust me, the list doesn’t end there), simply to finish college and keep my family afloat. I’ve spent a lot of my life being kicked when I’m down, but I’ve come out of it with some great stories, a few battle scars, and ready to kick-start adventure time.

Janelle Evan - Best Dive Job Application

Janelle Evan - Best Dive Job Application

I chose scuba for one sole reason. Scuba diving is one of the happiest, most adventurous things I have ever experienced. It is nothing short of a tragic that the circumstances of my life have left me unable to pursue it.

Ladies and gentlemen of the panel – I love life. I’m a tad unconventional, determined as hell, and have so many dreams and passions just welling up inside of me that simply have no outlet. I’m ready to kick some ass and break some barriers, but I need a leg up. With the help of friends and family I have hurdled some major obstacles in my life, and guess what? I’m back on my feet and ready for the next one! If your goal with this competition is to really, profoundly change a life, and to give one incredibly lucky person an otherwise unimaginable opportunity, then by all means, give me a call.

Karli Drinkwater

By on December 8, 2010 in Karli Drinkwater

Correct, right, just, spot on, dead on, bang on, bob on, yes my son! Just a few ways to describe your decision if you pick me for the Best Dive Job in the World!

So why do I want to wave goodbye to good ol’ Blighty’s shores for 7 months to live and dive in Bali? This is the perfect cue for strings and a sob story, but my life isn’t the X Factor so I will tell you straight and honestly (if you don’t get the X Factor where you live, it’s a popular televised singing contest and regularly features emotional music when candidates cry through their reasons for wanting to win… They’re generally something along the lines of doing it for their cat who lost a leg in a lawnmower accident).

I want to change my life and become a PADI instructor with Blue Season Bali because I have an adventurous spirit that is just bursting to soak up the world. I need to be out there, discovering, exploring, making a difference. And what better way is there to do that than bring the unrivalled joy and exhilaration of diving to others?

My dive love story began in Bali… actually. Being unqualified at that point, we couldn’t go deeper than 12m, but who cared? I saw so much life at 5m and kept looking at my boyfriend with huge happy eyes. I knew then that I wanted to do this for the rest of my life. On surfacing the instructor said: “You’re a fish. You belong in the water.” I know!

My dedication to diving and adventure shines through because of my determination and dogged-mindedness. Diving is an expensive sport/hobby/passion/reason for getting out of bed, no doubt about it. But where there’s a will there’s a way: I provided video content for a dive school’s website in exchange for my AOW qualification. They are such a top bunch for giving me the opportunity to do what I love – and I could do the same for Blue Season Bali. I’ll bring the pzazz and the punch – you bring the ocean and the diving know-how!

I already blog and write about diving on my site The Adventure Girl’s Guide. I dedicate a lot of column inches to diving – both the exciting experiences and the more challenging ones, like when I found getting used to a dry suit really tough! I share my articles through social media like Facebook, Twitter and diving forums. Divers love a good debate and putting in their two pennies’ worth I’ve found, so it’s been a real joy to be part of it. In the few months since I started it, I’ve interviewed big names in diving like marine scientist Dr Andrea Marshall and diving TV personality Paul Rose. This shows my passion and respect for both diving and our waters – and just how much I want to make my life all about adventure.

Send Karli to Bali!

Mritunjai Sisaudia

By on December 3, 2010 in Mritunjai Sisaudia
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mritunjai sisaudia Best Dive Job in the World Application

Hi, I am Mritunjai Sisaudia, 28 years old and I stay in Hyderabad, India. As my father was an engineer in the Army, I spent my childhood roaming across the country changing schools every two-three years. It was this upbringing which gave me an appreciation for variety; in people, in their languages, mindsets and cultures. Over the years I have grown into a wide range of activities and interests and yearn to expand more every day.

I graduated in computer science and started working by twenty one and have spent the last seven years working for some of the best organizations in the industry as a programmer. I love programming as a medium to create, and have always been a true artist at heart. I love sketching, write poetry, dabble in photography and have an eye for color and aesthetics.

Though my career choices early in life led me to the corporate cubicles, my heart always belonged to the outdoors. The artist in me has always drawn inspiration from the the greatest artist of all, nature. I have run a few long distance races, backpacked, and climbed to push myself physically, catch a few unspoiled sunsets, starry nights and breathtaking sunrises. As a kid I loved climbing trees, but that’s not odd I guess, for if Darwin is to be believed, we were monkeys once. I spent the first nine months of my life in a bag of water and I myself am a water bag (70%!), so it’s no wonder that I love water too!

When I first came across diving, as is typical of me, read up a lot of material on it. Even got hold of a PDF version of the US Navy dive manual and I knew that this was for me. But I wanted to be sure, so I travelled over 400 miles to Goa and enrolled myself for the PADI open water diver program (http://waterdiving.blogspot.com). I watched the DVDs, read the manual cover to cover, obsorbed like a sponge in the pool sessions, but nothing could have
prepared me for my first open water dive on the third day. I am in love!

Best Dive Jon in the WorldIt’s not just the scuba equipment or the underwater skills, not just the connection with the ocean or the innocence of the marine life, not just the pure child like joy that I got to witness on even the most experienced divers; it was everything together. A community that wants to live in harmony with nature, wants to protect it; spread awareness, teach and learn everyday. I know now that I belong here.

There are so many dive sites in Bali that I want to explore, like see the walls at the Menjangan island, reef sharks, sunfishes and turtles at Cystal bay at Nusa Penida, USAT Liberty wreck at Tulamben, or a night dive to coral gardens to see the spanish dancers!

PS: Tom, I am also looking forward to learn reverse finning and helicopter turns from you. :-)

Dennis Harrold

By on November 23, 2010 in Dennis Harrold

Dennis Harrold, Best Dive JobHi, I am Dennis Harrold from Fort Smith, Arkansas. I began diving two years ago at Lake Tenkiller in Oklahoma, an hour drive from Fort Smith. The diving in Lake Tenkiller is seasonal; we can only dive for about six months. Visibility is poor which ranges from one foot to twenty feet; if you can dive here you can dive anywhere. I dove in the Bahamas, Mexico, Belize, and Honduras. I have made over 265 dives.

In my first year of diving, I became a Divemaster and started helping Instructors with class. Watching new divers has pushed me to want to become an Instructor so I can pass on my passion for diving.

I did not know how much it would change my life. It has enriched my life so much that all I have wanted to do is become an Instructor. I want to show and teach others about the vast, beautiful world that still remains unknown. Getting away from the everyday job that has not brought enjoyment and excitement of working with people that diving has. Working and teaching people from all walks of life how much fun diving is. Being able to seeing the awe on the face of new divers when they start diving in this beautiful and awesome world that they have only seen on T.V.

The Best Dive Job in the WorldBeing excited by listening to the excitement in their voice and seeing it on their face after a dive. This only drives the passion in me to become an Instructor. I want to teach diving to those who want to learn and show them the world that I have deeply fell in love with. I want to spread my knowledge about diving the sea and the creatures that live there. It’s important to the underwater ecosystem to teach those of what it means to life on earth. I want to spread my love for diving and the world that we dive in, while learning about the life of people from around the world and becoming friend with them.

Aaron Maher

By on November 23, 2010 in Aaron Maher

Best Dive Job in the WorldBubbles, I all hear are bubbles. The rhythmic sound of my breathing puts me into a trance as I glide through the ocean blue. There is no other place in the world I would rather be than exploring beneath the sea. I was introduced to scuba diving around the age of 10 years old. Ever since then I have been fascinated by all things scuba. It doesn’t stop there. I love to share my passion for diving with anyone who will listen or take the time to look at some of my photographs.

My passion for diving has given me the opportunity to explore another world beneath the waves. A world where people are visitors, a world where new discoveries are common, a world where gravity can be challenged and you can fly. I want to change my life and become a PADI instructor because I want to be able to share the other 70% of the world where most people only get a glimpse of the surface. I want to expose them to the beauty of a coral reef, to the beauty of a kelp forest, to the agility of pinniped, or to the grace and strength of a shark.

My life has been changed as a result of being exposed to the world beneath the sea. I want to be able to do the same for others and at the same time develop other stewards of the sea. The more passionate divers the world has the better success we as humans will have at protecting our oceans. As a PADI dive master I have already had first had experience in teaching and assisting new divers, but I want to expand on my experience and become a PADI instructor and have a greater impact on the lives of those considering diving.

Aaron W. Maher Best Dive Job in the WorldI consider myself to be the adventurous type, but not the solo type. I can’t think of a better way to expose other people the adventurous underwater world than to be a PADI instructor, go all the way and live the dream. I have already left the life of 9-5 behind me after 9 plus years of living the corporate way of life. I want to be able to wake up, be excited to go to work, and jump into Mother Nature’s pool.

I want to live the life of a PADI instructor. I want to make an impact on people’s lives. I want to be able to teach new divers not only the skills required to be a PADI diver, but to teach them to be good stewards of the sea and share that information and their experiences to bring new divers into the fold. I want to be a PADI instructor because I want to make a difference. I want to change my life and become a PADI instructor to live my dream. Here’s to lots of bubbles with Blue Season Bali!

Ollie Cook

By on November 22, 2010 in Ollie Cook

As I approach the 10-year mark on my working life so far, I have been looking back at what I have really achieved. Sure, I have enjoyed my work, and I’ve even had the fortune to be part of a business that has revolutionised an industry. I’ve even helped that business through a key point in its evolution, its IPO. I have benefited financially from my career, have made some good friends and other relationships that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. I have also had the opportunity to travel with work and through work gain the funds to travel widely in my personal time too. But asking myself the crucial question, “Have I made a contribution to the world, or measurably improved anyone’s life?” I don’t think I can honestly answer that I have.

Interestingly, diving is becoming a theme in my life when I am considering what to do with my future. In a month off between jobs in 2005 I visited Egypt with the express intention of learning to dive. I had always been at my happiest in the water, and exploring what lay beneath the surface had always been an alluring challenge for me. I’m glad I took the opportunity to take a PADI Open Water qualification at that point, because it opened up a new world to me.

My favourite dive experience to date was filling in for a couple doing their Rescue Diver qualification, where one of the couple was unfortunately taken ill. I was asked to play the part of the ‘victim’ and to hide somewhere on the reef. Remaining still on the sea floor, waiting to be “rescued”, watching the underwater world go by, being mesmerised by the tiniest motions of the corals and being myself watched by the inquisitive fish, was a magical experience that I will always have with me.

Diving is so many things to so many people. For some it’s just an adventure, an exciting activity to get under one’s belt on holiday. For others it’s a way to help the planet, to study underwater life and act to conserve it for future generations. For still others, it’s a healthy addiction to the beauty and biodiversity of underwater life.

For me it’s about relaxation and exploration. No two dives are ever the same and I enjoy discovering new facets of sites I’ve dived before. I also enjoy the tranquility and solitude of turning dive lights off during a night dive and imaging myself to be floating in space!

No matter what people get out of their diving experiences, it all starts with an introduction and training. What more valuable endeavour can I turn my life to than helping give newcomers an introduction to the world under water, and to help them begin a journey of exploration, both of themselves but also life below the surface, than to share my passion for diving?

Ollie Cook

Ber Shalah

By on November 22, 2010 in Ber Shalah

This is the moment that I been waiting for…

Best Dive Job in the World

Ber Shalah - Best Dive Job

My name is Bergenius Shalah I’m 29 yrs. of age, a simple an a quiet guy Of course i’d like to explore and learn new things, I do have an expensive dream in my life and that is to become a well trained professional diver, I live in an Island situated between the Philippines and Malaysia, I did’nt manage to get a job after college, I have been helping my brother to be one of his crew in the small wooden boat that he run, In the previous years we been hired by some researchers to do research studies in one of the best dive site in the Philippines Tubbataha Reef for a week, so as a boat crew part of my job is to prepare the scuba gear before and after the dive, I may don’t have the brains like those researcher but I’m definitely have a quite an little advantage in diving skills than them, due to unemployment my sister decided to help me to get a passport to enter Malaysia and have a temporary employment as a fishermen or they call it as visit pass.

I decided to save some money, so last march I have my first PADI open water licensed and just recently I have just received my PADI advance open water licensed that I enrolled in one of the dive center in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

Why I want to change my life and become a PADI Instructor?

It’s time for me to experience the real adventure in life and to become a PADI Instructor is great opportunity if chosen it would help gain more knowledge in my scuba diving skills and to be able to teach and share it what I learn would be my life changing moment, I may have only few dive log for me I considered myself as an experience diver,

Thank You,
Bergenius Shalah

Alan Ireland

By on November 22, 2010 in Alan Ireland

Dear Best Dive Job in The World,

S.O.R.T.E.D

My name is Alan and I’m 29 year old PADI Divemaster. I recently completed my divemaster Internship this summer on the beautiful island of Ibiza. I went from total beginner to divemaster in two months. It’s fair to say this was the best experience of my life and I never want to go back to the 9-5 rat race that most jobs have to offer. The reason I took this step in my life was because I’d become disheartened with life in the UK. My friend suggested scuba diving to me, so I began researching the industry and before I knew it I had signed myself up for a Divemaster Internship. I have now become totally obsessed with diving and want to go all the way to course director, even platinum course director one day.

The Best Dive Job in the WorldSince my return to the UK I have been on the PADI pro’s site everyday looking for work in the industry. The more I look the more I realise I need to be an instructor or higher to gain employment. The only thing stopping me achieving this is money. I figure to get myself the best chance of work is to become a staff instructor. I will get there eventually after years of saving but I don’t want to wait 5 years or so down the line, I want it now! I’ve tasted the lifestyle and I want more. Yes it’s hard work, yes the hours can be long but teaching others to dive or even guiding certified divers is a wonderful experience. Never in my wildest dreams did I want to be a teacher when I was younger. Diving has changed everything for me though and teaching is all I want to do now. It gives job satisfaction a whole new meaning to me. I want to spread my love of diving to the rest of the world through the art of teaching, teaching the PADI way. Enjoyable and fun but in a very safe way.

I’m not going to say I deserve this more than the next person because I don’t. This is an amazing package you guys are offering and if I was lucky enough to win I can guarantee it would not be wasted on me. You would be helping someone who is 100% dedicated to succeeding and bring happiness to other divers and non-divers alike.

So without going on to much about why I deserve to come to Bali I am now going to beg. Please, please, please with sugar on top let me come to Bali and help me to become the best instructor PADI has ever known, you probably won’t let me leave once I’m there.

Happy Fishes,
S.T.E.L.L.A
Alan Ireland

Adam

By on November 16, 2010 in Comments about this contest

I will get started on my ‘production’ straight away! This is an AMAZING competition and I can’t wait TO WIN!

I don’t even have anything to say at the moment, I am just sooooooo hyped for this competition. WOW. I keep reading it on your website over and over again just to make sure it definitely is real!!

Cesa Franco

By on November 16, 2010 in Comments about this contest

Well my feedback is that diving and being an instructor is the most wonderful experience in my life, with this contest I´m looking forward to win the best and unique opportunity I could ever have, ´cause as I say “I work in God´s pool”.

Juliah P

By on November 16, 2010 in Comments about this contest

Yes this is an awesome opportunity! In fact as I am writing this to you, my butt is already hurting on the chair facing the computer and

I am pretty sick of my lifestyle.

I am ready for the battle, may the best competitive spirit win!

This is great, I am very excited as well and I am hoping to be the winner!

cause “We are the champions, my friends…”

Adam Dovichak

By on November 16, 2010 in Adam Dovichak
Adam Dovichak Best Dive Job in the World Application

Adam Dovichak Best Dive Job in the World Application

The Best Dive Job In the World

My name is Adam Dovichak and I am a nineteen year old from Alberta, Canada. I have always been interested in exploring our world: particularly the world that exists underwater. Growing up in the landlocked prairie I haven’t had many opportunities to experience the vastness of our oceans firsthand. I did get a taste for what I had been missing when I got the opportunity to dive in Mexico. I felt such peace and freedom as I glided through the waters. It was an amazing experience. I knew instantly that this was something I had to do again.

In southern Alberta, however, it was not likely to happen anytime soon. The main industry in our province is oil and gas. I had always been expected to find a job with a successful oil company and earn a comfortable living. I tried working in the field for a while but it isn’t the career for me. There has to be more in this life than going to a job everyday just to make money. With this idea in my mind I have been struggling with life’s big questions recently; why am I here? What is my purpose? I can’t answer those questions for everyone but I do intend to figure them out for myself.

I think that this opportunity would be perfect for me. I know that every moment of life should be enjoyed and lived fully and this opportunity could allow me to grow and discover a lot of things about myself and about our planet. I long for a career that would allow me to explore the world we live in and diving is just the job that would allow that. I want more than anything to recreate those feelings that I experienced my first time diving. I can just imagine what it would be like to wake up every day knowing that I truly have the best job in the world.

Linda Örnquist

By on November 16, 2010 in Linda Ornquiest
Linda Ornquist Best Dive Job Application

Linda Ornquist Best Dive Job Application

Hi!

My name is Linda Örnquist and I’m 20 years old. I live in Sweden.

I saw your ad in the paper and I thought this would be a great opportunity for me to see another part of the world. I love being in other countries and I really enjoy every single moment of It because I’m curious about seeing other people, other cultures and other landscapes. You can say that’s a passion of mine.

So, who am I?

Other use to describe me as an open, social and a little bit crazy person.  I love to try new things in life and when it comes to the social part, I don’t have problems with it.  I love to meet new people in life. It’s easy for me to connect with other people and I also think people have easy to connect with me. I think that is a good quality that a diving instructor should have.

Besides that, I’m a kind person with a good sense of humor.

I really hope my description raised your interest of me. I hope for an answer and of course, for a further service with you.

Thank you for your time, I love to hear from you.

Best wishes

Linda Örnquist

Stina Larsson

By on November 15, 2010 in Stina larsson
Stina Larsson application for the Best Dive Job in the World

Stina Larsson application for the Best Dive Job in the World

Please let me go to Bali!!!

…and here are the reasons why;

So, you want to get to know me and want to know why I deserve to go to Bali more than all the other thousands that write you hilarious letters or have sent you smart and creative videos. Well, I don´t- and isn´t that a better reason than all the others? I believe people can identify with my humble personality. I don´t consider myself to be better or funnier than any other bloke out there and that´s why you should send me the ticket straight away (logic is overrated).

You also want to know why I need a break from my everyday-life. Well….let me tell you a little bit about that life and explanations will no longer be necessary.

Rising star? No not really. My career-moves have not been the smartest ever. I got myself a bachelor in Social Work because I thought I wanted to work in that field. I don´t. Right now I work in Norway (yeah by the way, I´m a 30-year-old Swedish brunette) with youths. I really like my colleagues and I´m oh so tired of them. I need a break. Or just anything fun.

Off duty. When I´m not at work I live a quite boring life. The one thing I love the most is travelling so I´m always short of money (right now I´m saving for Africa summer 2011). I´ve already been to Bali once. I was there for a month and loved it. I drank avocado-juice and hung out with the locals. Life can be sweet. This means I´m already vaccinated and ready to go go (I just have to get my body together for the bikini-season, please let me know a week in advance so I can stop eating).

Stina Larsson application for the Best Dive Job in the World

Stina Larsson application for the Best Dive Job in the World

Heartbeats. I´m not going to bore you with details about my love life. I can just give you a brief summary; it´s totally fucked up, and I don´t mean that in the funny way. My life has more in common with “Dumb and dumber” than “Sex and the City”. Jealous? Still wondering why I need a change and some adventure in my life?

Conclusion: Even though this letter may sound a bit pessimistic I really want you to know that I genuinely love life. I would never take up your time if I didn´t know that I would do a great job as a blogger for you and I´ll take good care of this chance if you hand it to me. Besides being lovely, glad and social (and humble as I mentioned in the beginning) I´m also a bit afraid of being under water. Hey, you have to choose me. OK you don´t have to, but I´d be a jolly peace of sunshine if you do. You´d do both of us a favour.

Hugs and kisses!! Stina Larsson

Michael Kuen

By on November 13, 2010 in Michael Kuen
Michael Kuen, Best Dive Job in the World

Best Dive Job in the World Candidate

Dear Jonathan and Tom,

It was such an amazing surprise, an amazing miracle to see a scuba dive career being offered and all that one would need to do would be to write or send a video story. Is it really that simple? Sometimes it is just that easy.

So I made the inevitable happen, I chose to write a story about me, I say inevitable, because I do not have a video camera. I must say it was quite challenging to write a story, as one needs to choose which direction you want the story to go. Does one go with a theme of humour, drama, factual based, Sci-fi etc. I chose to go with heart and truth. Even these themes are challenging to write from. But attempt it I must. And in my attempt, hopefully you will consider me as a candidate for this dream job and convince you that this is a dream of mine. A dream that I am willing to work towards and to work for.

So What is my circumstance? I am single, no attachments, Just enjoying the single life, One day hope to find someone that will share my happiness in the same field.

I am an IT Manager/Yoga Teacher/Masseuse working for a Private Game Reserve called Londolozi. I have been based here for 2 years going on 3. I work on a 6 week work and 2 week off cycle. I recently did my open water refresher, Advanced and Rescue Diving on my last leave. Will be working on my specialities in the near future and then Dive master in the next two to 3 months and then IDC, dependent on increasing my dive numbers. In the specialities I do have a certain calling to do Videographer.

I really want to capture moments of nature and moments of other divers’ experiences. Perhaps in my later dive career work for National Geographic and uncover new unseen images/videos of nature. I did these on my last leave because I wanted to start on my dream. And I have. And I am happier for it. Even though part of my normal career is based in an office, I would love to change my office to the sea. And what you offer could definitely help me achieve my dream career quicker.

What I have seen at my dive centre is that it is hard work but rewarding. I understand that this is not just a hand out career. It definitely does take hard work, discipline, and ability to follow instructions, to be safe and secure, and most importantly have fun. I have been down the road of the corporate job. I do believe that one does not need to conform to this type of lifestyle.

One does not need to make their lifestyle their job; one could make their lifestyle their job. Open sea, fresh air, and underwater coral with deep hypnotic colors. Amazing underwater life. I wish to experience all of this, and share it. As well as help other people achieve this same dream. 90% of this world is water, their is so much to explore and uncover. New experiences to experience. A way to embrace life.

I can offer my current IT skills, time, professionalism and me. We can discuss offering or creating Yoga classes/Massages. A synergy can be created from what you are offering and what I can offer. A great partnership can be co-created.
If you do consider me, I would like to further discuss the logistics of this dream career.

Thank you for your time for reading this Email.

Here’s is to Hope and Faith,

Michael Kuen

South Africa

Jarred Hodson

By on November 13, 2010 in Jarrod Hodson

To whom it may concern:

As a PADI Divemaster with no money and no opportunity to establish a dive career in my town due to water conditions, I just wish to congratulate you on your excellent idea in hosting this competition. It is really encouraging to see that there are divers out there willing to give others an opportunity of a lifetime.

I am yet to enter myself, but rest assured that I will. Thank you so much for what you are all doing. Best regards and all the luck for future endeavors.

Jarred Hodson

Csaba Gere

By on November 12, 2010 in Csaba Gere

I am Csaba gere from Hungary. I have sent my video to you but not sure if you received it.

So I send you my application here too.

I love the Nature and I love diving.

I have done NAUI and UIF courses so far and I qualified as a Rescue diver and Master scuba diver and Deep diver. Besides I have a good command of English and German. I can say I am in excellent physical and mental condition.  I have already worked months with commercial divers. My jobs involved cleaning waterwells in Budapest and the underwater insulation of the pillars of a bridge that is being built over the Danube.

I have used Kirby-18 and Kirby-27 equipment. We finished 2006 a corrosion protection work in Lybia by an oil company with the REDS ltd. and the Besix ltd.. We used the DENSO technology. In 2008 I worked in Scotland at Divex company. I was a technician. We made military Clearance Divers’ Life Support Equipments for different country’s governments (Lybia, Vietnam, GB, Germany, …).

I am absolutely devoted to doing this fun.  I am an ambitious type and I always do my utmost to achieve my goals.  I would be grateful to be invited into your Country.

Please help me if it is possible!

I hope, we will meet soon!

That is my dream.

I am waiting for your answer.

Thank you forward and I wish you all the best!

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