{"id":1104,"date":"2015-05-07T01:39:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divestore.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2015-05-07T01:39:41","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T01:39:41","slug":"simon-byers-instructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/2015\/05\/07\/simon-byers-instructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Byers &#8211; Instructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started scuba diving here in Wellington in 2004 and fell in love with the sport so I continued to learn more about diving\u00a0and became a Dive Master in 2010. This got me on the road to helping with training and looking after fellow divers as well as doing lots of fun diving around Wellington and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.divestore.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/66944_10151504581040269_542378526_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1105\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divestore.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/66944_10151504581040269_542378526_n-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Divers\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/66944_10151504581040269_542378526_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/66944_10151504581040269_542378526_n-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/66944_10151504581040269_542378526_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(which one am I)<\/p>\n<p>After assisting on numerous courses and guiding divers over the next 2 years I became an Instructor In 2012 and have been working in and around the Wellington area instructing ever since.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.divestore.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/543276_10151255167533141_1692605374_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1106\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divestore.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/543276_10151255167533141_1692605374_n-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"Rescue\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/543276_10151255167533141_1692605374_n-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/543276_10151255167533141_1692605374_n-425x300.jpg 425w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/543276_10151255167533141_1692605374_n.jpg 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know the Wellington area very well and have dived in quite a number of\u00a0places overseas and around New Zealand from Stewart Island to the Solomon Islands, Poor Knights to the Galapagos Islands, Lake Taupo to Vanuatu.<\/p>\n<p>I am just beginning to get into technical diving and can teach Nitrox &amp; Intro to Tech Courses as well as Sidemount Diver and in 2014 I became qualified on the Megalodon eCCR rebreather. I enjoy wreck diving and to be honest any day under water is a good day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.divestore.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/chuck-norris-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1107\" src=\"http:\/\/www.divestore.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/chuck-norris-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Chuck Norris \" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/chuck-norris-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/chuck-norris-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/chuck-norris-1.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started scuba diving here in Wellington in 2004 and fell in love with the sport so I continued to learn more about diving\u00a0and became a Dive Master in 2010. This got me on the road to helping with training and looking after fellow divers as well as doing lots of fun diving around Wellington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diveski.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}