The job

Amazing, I made it back for a second time. So we'll start with learning about me shall we? Let's face facts, you're not here to learn about microphysics, or how to build a pipe bomb, or to ask why your love life is going down the pan are you!! And if you are, maybe you need to go back to Google and search again.

OK, so the job....

I work for a dive company in Phuket called Calypso ( http://www.calypsophuket.com ). The promo stuff says we offer PADI courses in all languages, and we can organise daytrips and liveaboards, whatever your time and budget constraints. And all this is true. And we are very good at it, I would recommend us to anyone, even if I didn't work here. But I have nothing to do with that. I work on a boat.

We have a day trip boat called Greta, and she's wonderful. In fact here she is....

21 metres long. Take up to 30 people and is just lovely. And what do I do aboard the lovely Greta? Well, I run her. Every day.

With a great Thai crew (Captain An, Engineer Ang, and boat boy Deen), I take her all around the local dive sites basically telling people what to do and how to do it. And it's great. In a little more detail, I set up the day trips in the office, collect all the dive folk from their hotels and get them to the boat. I then tell them the boat layout, and how to behave on a boat, help them set up gear, brief on the dives, point out fish and stuff on the dives, bring them all home again. In a nutshell.

I have perhaps one of the best jobs on the planet. Just amazing really.

It has its trials and tribulations, such as the low pay and ridiculous hours, but it's worth it for the fantastic diving. I can't really tell you much more initially without it sounding like an ad for the company, or looking like my CV. So I'll leave it there. Are you gripped yet? Are you!!!!