Amazing internship

This internship was absolutely brilliant. I spent 3 months on Nusa Penida with Project Laut completing my dive master and every single day was different. I learnt so much about conservation, both coral conservation and general marine conservation from Joma who took a very holistic approach to our learning. With my background being in neuroscience, all of the marine science was completely new to me. After coral identification classes, Joma then went on to ID coral on our next few dives with me so I really understood what was being taught in the classroom. I particularly enjoyed the building of the coral spiders as it is so rewarding to then plant coral on them and watch the coral restoration process on subsequent dives. The diving in Nusa Penida was beautiful and I will be going back to complete my instructor with Nomads diving later and see the coral restoration project again. Identifying turtles on dives was always really fun and its such a privilege to see them each time. The software we use to ID the turtles was really interesting and a great skill to have learnt.

I can’t reccomend this internship enough, every aspect of it from living on a beautiful island; diving with colourful corals and making friends I know I’ll see again. Joma is a fantastic teacher and the best dive instructor I have ever met, few people have the ability to make you feel as reassured as he does on dives. This really is the best thing I have ever done and I can’t wait to go back.