Young diver dreams a house in West Java

Young diver dreams a house in West Java -

Kyle Blakeway love of the ocean runs deep: it started when he earns his Junior Open Water diving license -er ten years old- in over the years flourished, as his passion to Egypt and the Gilis and eventually manifests itself in the purchase of took him "Cecilia Ann", a 60-foot ketch sailboat anchored in Anyer, West Java, and itching to take tourists on Krakatau, Ujung Kulon National Park, Panaitan and to explore further afield.

Blakeway allegedly came to Jakarta five months ago to visit his parents. But as he wanted the chance to buy a boat landing.

"I have lived in Australia, and I was always to buy a boat ... always ask around and checked the Internet," says Blakeway. "But then I came back to Jakarta and one of my mom's friends actually knew someone a sale and when I saw the Cecilia Ann-I just knew I wanted it."

But to offer then is again designed ample room on top of something like the Cecilia Ann, the wide-decked ship, for up to 10 chartered as a live-aboard day trips or to sleep up to 35 guests, which the young entrepreneurs was the Cecilia Ann took over recently and Java Sea Charters had, his life dreamed by almost half.

for more than half of his life, a certified open water diver was, experience is something that carries 22 years in spades.

born in Cape Town, South Africa, and from Athens to Sri Lanka Blakeway, the applicable started at the age of 10 diving around the through everywhere, seemed somehow the four cabin boat, to determine at the end to owning, what world class diving trips and surf charter along West Java and to the Sunda Strait.

Certified before he was a teenager, and his excellent Padi instructor certification at 18, has him Blakeway passion for diving and open water led to some of the most exotic and sought after diving locations on the planet, sacred places as Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt and the famous Gili Islands in Lombok here.

Jakartans always complain about in the city stuck for the weekend. But what they do not know how easy it is to be in the water and explore Ujung Kulon Panaitan or the wrecks of two USS Houston "The Galloping Ghost of the Java Coast" from places like Krakatau National Park, and the HMAS Perth resting after during the battle of Sunda Strait, now torpedoed firmly at the bottom of Banten Bay on the lip of the Sunda Strait in 1942nd

says Some of the best diving in all Java, Blakeway, is right under our noses.

"You do not need to go to Bali or Lombok and the Gilis to get your diving license. It is just around the corner, here in West Java. It is a weekend."

the best way to spend a weekend to make it to charter the boat with a few friends or colleagues, and contact with Blakeway who has his specialty Padi license, and a plan diagram.

"How do we do it at the moment is weekend travel we do. They come Friday after work and you eat dinner at Blue Moon, it is a nice little restaurant, two minutes walk from the port and then at about 21:00 to go up on the boat and go to sleep and then wake up in the morning and you are on Krakatau. So it's Friday night, Saturday night and then in the afternoon, come back Sunday at about 4 or 5 o'clock "

More importantly, the young entrepreneurs his passion is keen to hand over to the next generation.

"We want the boat out about 20 times a month. I mean, there are a lot of dive shops here in Jakarta, but none of them are really tap into the schools. We definitely want to to open up the schools and to get the children out of there. "

Java Sea Charters offers Junior Open Water courses for ten and eleven year olds, while more experienced divers their advanced, can earn nitrox, deep diving, wreck diving or fishing identification Padi courses, all perfect two-day weekend excursions that are five dives.

But it is not just about the legendary surf or one-of-a-kind under ~~ POS = TRUNC experiences available for Blakeway it comes to sustainability and the reefs of West Java for the next to obtain generation.

Java Sea Charters, on a project works hand in hand with the World Wildlife Federation from called "Build Your Own Reef" where divers combat the effects of dynamite fishing to spend the weekend off the coast of Unjung Kulon of transplanted corals areas unaffected by the bombing on concrete slabs built by local villagers harvested Refit to create new coral colonies help section to help reconstruction and sustainability.

"the WWF According to the coral design a very high success rate," says Corine-Hahn, the former owner of Celcia Ann and one of the founders of the project.

Tap that the project explained, which celebrates its fifth annual dive and reconstruction weekend on 18 and 19 June has an 80 percent recovery rate of growth along the 25 plates divers and locals have laid help to coral regeneration offer.

"The weekend is all returned to something. It's a small project, but we do not have much to do, involved get to the divers. They are interested in the area on the restoration they love. The divers want their children to enjoy the coral to be able to. "

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