This might sound a bit strange but this is a true story!!!

A couple of weeks ago Jacob send us an email to enquire about our dive courses because he wanted to get his certification. He decided to book with us - and that was the beginning.

He started his course on Friday the 13.08.10 (some people wouldn't have done that :-) but  for him it was pure luck) and a couple of days later he was certified. 

The plan was to do 2 more dives after his course, but in the end he did 6 more dives. This 6 dives are quite hard to top - he saw lots of turtles, sharks, barracudas, and he had the luck to see a whale during his dive. The whale aproached our divers when they were already down and accompanied them for a while. This is quite rare and a really special experience.

The Cook Islands are a whale sanctuary and the rule is to keep distance to a whale. If the whale decides to approach the divers under water - than it's the whales decision.

Apart from diving his general plan was to get a tattoo while on the island, but once he decided to go with us he kept thinking about our Big Fish Logo and the idea was formed to get the fish as a tattoo. I didn't take him serious in the beginning but i learned soon that he was very serious about it.

After his last day of diving he had his appointment with Boye Nicholas from Polynesian Tattoo for getting his new tattoo.
Click trough the photos to have a look at them - the fish looks really great (all done by free hand!!!)

I know we will see Jacob and Lisa again and we are looking forward to it and i am sure he will never forget us!!!!

We met Russ yesterday evening with his family Victoria and Emily. They are on a short trip to Rarotonga and Aitutaki. Russ is the producer / director from Big Earth Production. He spent 20-years successfully putting together international events and expeditions, including award-winning television programmes such as The Long Way Round.

Now he is traveling around the world to search for the 100 most adventurous activities.

We had the pleasure to take him on a night dive here in Rarotonga yesterday. HIghlight was a massive 2 meter long free swimming giant moray eel. I you wish to get some more information about their work follow this link please.

What a beautiful day of diving, we went out on the south side of the island. First dive was Avaavaroa Passage where we had at least 6 grey reef sharks on the next dive,  at Papua drop off  we saw 4 hammer heads and a couple turtles. How cool is this.