Big Data eCourse

Together with Laudius and another teacher I made a Big Data eCourse in Dutch about what Big Data is, how to analyze Big Data and Privacy & Ethics in Big Data research. With the code: GUISELAINE 10 percent discount (Affiliate).

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How I Got My Diving License

I have an SSI dive certificate and I am allowed to dive till 20 m deep. I always wanted to dive and got the opportunity, when I was studying Business Economics. In the third and fourth year I could follow a few workshops mostly in our own time and get certificates for this. It was still part of the sport lessons I got each year with the study. I did wine tasting, snooker, and diving. If I had had more time, I would have done sailing and golf also.

The Diving Lessons In The Pool

I got my lessons in a real diving shop. It was strange that when I was swimming, diving, and snorkeling in the pool, people could see me in the shop. The first thing I had to do is pass my theory exam. I got theory lessons, but mostly I had to study at home. The second part was getting my snorkeling certificate, some stopped there. I went further and was gearing up in the pool to train diving with equipment.

The Dives In The Winter

After the pool I had to train outside like I was going to dive for real. I thought I would see fish diving at the Vinkeveense plassen, but no I saw one dead fish, a ‘kipspeelrek’ and a platform. The platform was there to train emergency, when something happened during a dive. An example of one of the trainings I did was, putting off my tank and all other equipment and do an emergency ascent. It was fun and relax diving, but there was one thing that didn’t go well with me that was that the dives were at the end of November and beginning of December. While all other divers got warm from a hot chocolate and changing cloths, I couldn’t. I was all 5 times still flapping teethes (klappertanden) on our way back to the diving shop in Amsterdam. No one had an answer how to change that, but when diving in the tropics I got the answer.

Diving In The Tropics

After I got my driving license, I looked for opportunities to dive on vacations. With the course I got the theory with which I new which diving shops in the foreign I could trust to dive with. In Jordan I got the opportunity. I was there with a traveling group, mostly to see Petra. At the end I got the opportunity, there was a good diving school in Aqaba and a few days between the dive and my flight.

The Benefit Of Diving In The Tropics

The dive in Aqaba was beautiful I even saw a turtle and was diving alone with an instructor. After Jordan I dived twice again in the tropics at Directorsbay on Curaçao. The dives on Curaçao were nice, because of the number of fish and I could see that the island was built like a mushroom. All three the dives after my certificate were in nice warm water, and I didn’t need to flap teethes.

Free Diving

In Bali looking for a sport I did yoga with free diving. Free diving is allowed with a basic diving certificate of 20 m. It is totally different, because with free diving I dive on breath instead of breathing equipment. I didn't get my free diving certificate, because I got sick swimming in the sea. Later on I knew the reason there was a volcano eruption on a nearby island which made the sea very rough.