After completing the online portion of our Digital Underwater Photography course, we met with Jim from Maui Dreams to take our cameras diving and to complete the course. Jim gave us some pointers at the shop, went over both my camera and my husband’s rental camera to ensure we were familiar with settings. Once at the dive site we had a few assignments such as manually setting white balance, shooting in macro mode and shooting both horizontal and vertical shots.
(more…)
A few weeks ago while lazing around the house on Facebook, I happened to be online right when Maui Dreams posted a contest for a free underwater digital course. I couldn’t believe my eyes, I responded and was picked ;-). My husband, not to be left out, also decided to sign up for the online course. My husband and I had discussed taking an underwater photography class, and even talked to Maui Dreams last year, but never signed up. To be honest, the thought of taking any such course was quite intimidating to me, especially since I barely knew how to turn my camera on.
(more…)
Early mornings with the Queen of Caffeine.
First of all, I must say I do not consider myself computer illiterate but I have also never written a blog before, so please bear with me. I am the other intern…AKA (little one, short stuff, or commonly referred to as Katie)
(more…)
Has anyone ever wondered what really happens behind the closed doors of the Maui Dreams Dive Company? Well, allow me to introduce myself. Iʼm the intern! Well one of them anyways. Really my name is Chelsea Truscott and along with Katie Schmid (the other intern) we are new to the dive shop. Which means we finally get to see whats behind the big blue door! Are you ready?
(more…)
As you all know by now, we have a blast doing underwater clean-ups from the Maui Diamond II several times a year. So on Earth Day, we headed to our…
A little over three years ago I moved to Maui from Atlanta, not really sure what path I might take. One thing lead to another and before I knew it…
Remember that skill you did in Open Water class where you swam around without a mask on? There's a reason we teach that skill. I was leading a guided dive…
Part of my duties as shop manager is to create and perform Outreach projects with the community. I contact schools and youth organizations and offer to give different types of…
What the heck do dive instructors do on their days off? Well, most of the MDDC instructors often...go DIVING!Today Charlie and I were lucky enough to discover weboth had theday…
One of the benefits of working in a dive shop is getting to see the latest and greatest before it even hits the shelves! Today we had a surprise presentation…
Plan Your Dive and Dive Your Plan Series: Part 1“The Buddy System” Why do we have a buddy system in SCUBA diving? Why do we stay in a group? Why…
I mentioned in my previous blog entry that we instructors wear many hats. This has proven true once again. I was teaching a class at Ulua Beach and as we…