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This is one of these places that
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deserves to be much, much better known.
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It's the Croatian island of Vis.
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I've been here for about a a week. I've
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been here with my family.
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I've managed to combine two great
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things. One is a fantastic family
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holiday. My wife, my sons are really
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happy with it. And the second thing I
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managed to do is I have got in some
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absolutely world-class diving.
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It's been a great holiday. And one of
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the things that always surprises me is
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that more people don't know how good
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this is because it is an absolutely
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stunning, stunning place. So, not just
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the diving, but the whole place is
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fantastic. The nightlife is great.
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There's loads of bars and cafes and
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places you can buy ice cream. The
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temperature's obviously fabulous. Just,
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you know, really add something to your
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standard diving trip. And then the
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diving, unbelievable.
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You can go out on the same boat. And you
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can have people who are diving wrecks
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that are in 70 m, 60 m, 50 m, 40 m. And
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then you have people who are diving a
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really nice reef with loads of fish and
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all those kind of things who are doing
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an open water course. And And that's
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what I've done this week. I've been out
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I've been I've I've dived the
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unbelievable B-17 that's in 70 m. I've
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dived the B-24, the Tulsamerican, in
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about 40 m. We've done some pinnacles.
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We've done some caves. We've done some
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other stuff that I'm going to tell you
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about later on. I can't really share it
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while that has been going on, my two
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lads have been doing their open water
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course. And the great thing is is that
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this place this place here, Manta
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Diving, where I have been all week, they
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are a fantastic facility. They can cope
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with all of those things. Andy and his
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mum, Aniska, who run it, they're both
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divers themselves. Andy has done a huge
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amount of uh rebreather diving. He he
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knows all these wrecks. He knows all the
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dive sites intimately and they can
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support your rebreather diving as well.
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So, they've got everything you want,
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trimix, soft and lime, oxygen. They've
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got nice places to build your
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rebreathers. They've got wash down
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facilities. They look after your
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cameras. All the kind of things that you
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expect from a world-class
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destination for for rebreather diving.
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But, they've also got all the
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recreational stuff as well. So, you want
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twin sets, you want side mount gear, you
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want stages, you want single cylinders,
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you want wet suits. That the whole lot.
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It's all here. It it just amazes me that
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people don't know about this place and
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that more people don't come here. I'm
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probably quite glad that more people
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don't come here because it leaves it for
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those of us who know the secret. So, if
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you're looking for somewhere to go you
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with your family or by yourself, you
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want to do some really epic technical
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diving or you just want to do some great
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this this is the place for you.
