Putu and Ryadi

When most people talk about a dive shop or dive experience the normally talk about the people with whom they had a direct contact. I wanted to use this post to tell you a little bit more about the people behind the scenes who make it possible for you to go diving in Bali every day and or take a PADI course. In and around the equipment room we have Putu and Ryadi these two guys make sure that your equipment is clean, safe and ready to use. Next to this they fill and check all the tanks on a daily basis, both compressed air and Nitrox. Ryadi has been with us from day 1 and I really mean day 1, he was one of the original builders who helped out with the renovation of our building. He is a hardworker and has mastered all the skills to look after the equiment and tanks. Putu has joined us about a month ago, he is a fast learner and eager to know what, why, when.  Without them, tanks would be empty, equipment dirty the cycle would stop very quickly.
So next time you are over look to the right and you will see  two friendly faces, being part of the circle to make it all happen for you.

Looking back on Year 1

December is always a good month to look back at the year, see what you hoped to achieve and see what you really have accomplished. Well it has been an interesting year, finishing the renovation of the building, completing the paperwork and open our dive shop. Little did we know that the new lifestyle we have chosen would be a such a busy one..The first year has been much more busy than we expected and looking at the feedback we received from our customers who have been diving on Bali with us on places like Tripadvisor, Goole Places and many other places including our own website it seems we have done a good job.
Not that we are ready and there is nothing to improve anymore.
One of the things we wanted to accomplish is that Joe's Gone Diving would be a PADI 5 star dive center within a year. I very happy to let you know we did it, thanks to our customers who believed in us and our staff who have been very supportive. For us this has been a recognition that we are on the right track. A few other things we have accomplished this year, we have and constantly are improving our dive centre, we have added a specifically designed equipment drying area to our building, changed the layout of our equipment room to allow more equipment to be stored and facilitate customer specific equipment storing areas. Installed a nitrox facility made the reception area bigger upgraded our store to facilitate the sale of equipment, implemented software to able to help our customers more efficient and 1005 other jobs.... We still have a lot of plans for the coming years and hopefully when I look back next December I will get the same great feeling of accomplishment.