I always planned on doing my rebreather course. Since Helium prices are fairly high here in Indonesia, in my opinion, it's not interesting to do trimix dives on OpenCircuit.

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So after I quit my previous job in Candidasa Bali, I started looking around and talking with various CCR instructors. I was not sure where I would be at the time I would do the course. If I was on Bali, it would've been the AP inspiration, if it was on Gili Trawangan it would've been on the JJ. As you can see from the photos below, I did my course in Bali with Yvonne from Darkhorizondiving. 

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I did the course in two parts with a week break in between. Never expected I needed that break, but boy was I wrong. Frustrations towards the unit and instructor were getting the best of me and I was happy with the pause to reset and continue. Yvonne is a very determined instructor but had a different style of teaching than me. This was the first course I took after a long time of teaching and I could tell that I sometimes wanted to intervene and 'start teaching' my own style. While obviously, I was the student...

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During the course, you learn how to dive the unit as broken as possible. This way you always know what to do and Yvonne made sure those split-second reaction times were there with continuous drills at various depths and moments. Now I know how my students feel during their rescue course...

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To finalize it all, we did a nice boat/drift dive where we got accompanied by tunas and sharks. I very much enjoyed the course and am eager to get more hours in.