Hello everyone this is Loïc, from France. I joined Seasir at the beginning of April with the program "Work and Study" to become a pro diver. It's easy to spot me as I should be the only foreigner with green eyes and pink wetsuits ❤️.

Today I want to talk about Introduction diving and the intensive training session we had in Aka-jima seasir shop.

On the first day we had writing test and fishes test. What come next was practice.

The first time I discovered diving was with introduction diving and I had memories that it was pretty easy. I thought that it shouldn't be that much difficult. How wrong I was !

Here is a list of few points that I struggle myself the most among many things :

1. Back kick. Carrying 1 or 2 guest with me on the back was way harder than I thought it would be. After 3 intense days, I ended up with quite the muscle pain.
2. Keeping an eye on any trouble that may appear. Hearing not equalizing, blowing air from the nose, ejection of the regulator under water (scary 😨😨). A little things that is solved by reflexes by post divers can become a source of stress and panic for someone not used to diving.
3. Special for foreigner : briefing (in Japanese). With my level of japanese I had to practice a lot to make it delivered smoothly. I still have a long way to go.

The learning process was not quick a d when I watch videos of the first attempts I laugh quite hard 🤣🤣😂

The training session is over but I will continue to practice so I can quickly officially be an Introduction diving guide.

Thank you all for reading.

Loïc Le Borgne -- ロイッキ