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  • Lee Vella
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  • I received my SSI OW certification in 1993 with Chuck Senior while in Fort Lauderdale during a double trans-continental crossing of the USA. After recreational diving for the next few years, I received my SSI Advanced Specialty Diver OW certification while on a liveaboard in Cairns, Australia in 1997 with a bloke called Mark. 
    In 2013 while on a trip to Truk Lagoon, I completed my Nitrox certification on a liveaboard.
    In 2014 I moved to Koh Lipe Thailand and completed a Dive Master internship with Ko Lipe Diving, staying on for a couple of months after the internship to work as a Dive Master. An amazing feeling to actually get paid to go diving.
    These days I drive a computer for a living, but get to go diving in incredible places while on holidays !  

Places I've Dived

  • Total number of dives not on diveboard:
    This number is added to the total number of dives logged in Diveboard (public+private) for the stat "Total number of dives".
  • Dives published:422
  • Total dives count:433
  • Dives this year:2
  • Total underwater time on Diveboard:13 days 5 hrs 2 min
  • Most dives on Diveboard in:
    Australia
  • Deepest Dive:
    53m in Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia
  • Longest Dive:
    74 min in Koh Lipe (Tarutao National Park), Thailand
  • Pictures in logbook:91
  • Number of species spotted:95

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    2023-04-07 Australia Lady Elliott Island
    Anchor Bommies

    After traveling all night we arrived at Lady Elliot Island with blue skies and clear blue water. Lady Elliot did not disappoint !! I took a bearing on the surface and we swam out to Anchor Bommie. As we arrived we could see the huge black Manta Ray Taurus getting cleaned. There were a couple of bommies and quite a few manta rays. Of course there was beautiful coral and lovely colourful reef fish, but the manta rays were amazing. I even found the coral encrusted anchor the Bommie is named after.

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My Certifications

  • SSI Dive Control Specialist (Feb 2015)
  • SSI Dive Master (Jan 2015)
  • PADI Rescue Diver (Nov 2014)
  • PADI Enriched Air Diver (Oct 2013)
  • SSI Advanced Specialty Diver (Feb 1997)
  • SSI Open Water Diver (Feb 1993)
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