Surface Interval

Another new episode is finally up!

Finally, it's up!

This is part two of the two-part series where Alex shares his experience surviving without the dive line that he thought was the end of his life. Today, Alex is more busy helping people in Sumba, a remote island in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. He and his wife, establish Yayasan Kawan Baik, a subsidiary Non-Profit organization from Fair Future Foundation that he had established earlier in Switzerland. In part 1, we will be exploring the story about how he escaped from a few life-threatening incidents crossing the war zone and in part 2 he will be sharing more in terms of his crazy Tech diving experience where he often had to put his life close to the dive line. If you haven't listened to the part 1, go back and tune it in, because you are going to want to listen to the whole story

Alex Wettstein is the Founder and the director of the Fair Future Foundation, a Swiss-based non-profit organization managing and funding socio-medical programs in Southeast Asia. At the moment in Indonesia, it is known as Yayasan Kawan Baik. He used to be a commercial tech diver, a commercial diver working deep at the ocean base on HMS Pangan Wreck, in Ko Tao Thailand. What very interesting is he has a motorbike background where he crossed the middle east during the wartime overland all the way from Europe heading east to Asia. This is gonna be a long story to follow! so we will split the Episode into two parts and this is the first part. In part 1, we will be exploring the story about how he escaped from a few life-threatening incidents crossing the war zone and in part 2 he will be sharing more in terms of his crazy Tech diving experience where he often had to put his life close to the dive line. The second part is up soon so stay tuned!

We have talked about the safety aspect of scuba diving in the Last episode. In this episode we are speaking about the environmental issues around Scuba Diving. As we all know, diving is always talking about the beauty, but very rare that people talk about the sad truth about the environment around it. By the way, have you ever joined any activities like Beach clean up? do you have any idea where that plastic you have been collecting would go? Is beach clean up effective in solving the trash problem in the ocean? or does it serve another purpose that we never actually imagine from different perspective? Stay tuned!! because this episode would also speak about the process around that. Our guest in this episode is a scuba diver and free diver who has been active recently in the environmental issues around scuba diving. Her name is Valentina often known as La Vale! She a sweet Italian woman who has wandered all over the world. She is the founder of Calypso, a dive center in Amed, Bali, that is more than just Dive center, but also a coral conservation center. She is also the founder of Blue School Bali.

Welcome to the first episode! We are a community of scuba diver sharing inspiring stories between two dives, which we usually call it Surface Interval. If you are a diver, chances are pretty good that sometime, probably several times, your dad, your mom, or any of your friend, has asked you the question, “ Isn't diving dangerous?”, "Is diving really safe?", or those questions that often turn most people down from even starting it. However, scuba diving is enjoyed by thousands of people around the world every day and is statistically considered a low-risk activity compared to many other outdoor and sporting activities – such as Skateboarding, Volleyball, and even the very domestic ones like jogging have actually higher reported fatalities than diving. Our first guest is gonna be a French scuba diving instructor who has been in the recreational diving industry for almost 10 years. He is both PADI and SSI Instructor, he had worked in the Caribbean, the Canary Islands in Portugal, before moving to Southeast Asia.