Diving in Cambodia

I've been working at Koh Rong Dive Centre for 2 weeks now. It's been great to be under the water everyday and gain some useful experience. 

During the work I've been taking customers on fun dives also giving divers who haven't dived in the last 2 years a refresher course. During this course we go through some vital emergency skills, practice buoyancy control and go diving! This makes the customer feel more comfortable in the water allowing them to enjoy diving much more. I also took new divers on discover scuba diving (DSD) courses. This is a one day course which gives the new diver a few basic but vital skills before going diving in less then 10m. It's nice to see the reaction of divers who are doing it for the first time. For fun dives i gave the customers the dive breif giving them all he information they need before the dive. At first I felt it was difficult to remember all the information but after a few days it's easy and I enjoy meeting all the customers. 

The diving around Koh Rong is good, there are some nice reefs and nice dive sites. However due to the recent weather the visibility is often low (5-8m). Although I'd prefer better visabilty I gained valuable experience of how to lead dives in low visabilty. Yesterday we had 15m vis which was real nice! I've often also been in charge of the boat which includes; ensuring the boat has all the equipment we need including kits, tanks and food, giving he customers a boat breif and taking roll calls to make sure we don't leave anyone behind.

The reefs here are full of fish and other marine life, some examples of what we see follows;

- parrotfish

- pufferfish

- blue spotted rays

- butterflyfish

- angelfish

- damsel fish

- banner fish

- barracuda 

- makeral

- nudibranchs

- corals (compact, mushroom, soft)

- anemones 

I plan on staying another few weeks, Koh Rong is an amazing place to live and I'm enjoying the diving. Thanks to everyone at Koh Rong diving. It's a lot of fun.