NSP:318 — 5 Spearos Finish Instructors Course in Bali + Spearfishing Rumpongs | Matty and Liv, Noffs, Rhys (No Viz) and Chiz with Spearo Co

**Noffs** (0:30)
I had the same sort of confidence in Sildermeter David. I might have had a couple too many bin tangs last night.

**Helios** (0:36)
How did the tang hold you back, bro?

**Noffs** (0:37)
Yeah, not at all. We're on holidays now. Requirements are done.

**Isaac 'Shrek' Daly** (0:45)
Hey, welcome to the Noob Spearo Podcast. My name is Shrek. You may have tuned in to the last episode where we did, which was part one of this. There's five Spearo's in Bali in Ahmed, and they are learning how to become freediving instructors. And in this episode, they finish out their freediving instructors and then head off to another part of Bali to go spearfishing the rumpongs. These are like floating handmade fads and fish attracting devices, and they really get and hold some good fish at particular times of the year. So if you're interested in spearfishing Bali, this episode is good for even just learning about that and some reputable people involved there. Shout out to Spear Co. Guys, today's episode is fun. I think you probably got a sense for these guys on it. We got Liv and Matty, Chiz, Matty and Noffs, the wild man. So I hope you enjoy today's episode. Before we get there, just one shout out really. It's a thank you to the Patreon legends putting fuel in the Noob Spearo Outboard. If you're up for that, go to patreon.com/noobspearo, but I don't want to mark around. Let's go and hear these guys rap out their freediving instructors with Adam Sellars and The Pressure Project team before heading out and blasting some fish on these rumpongs. Here we go.
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**Rhys** (2:25)
Boom.
G'day legends and welcome back to the Noob Spearo Podcast. I'm joined here with a bunch of frothers. I'm with Livy, Noffers, just forgot your name for a second.

**Noffs** (2:37)
It's been a big week.

**Rhys** (2:39)
Chizzy and Matt as well. And we've... Are you Liv? Yeah.

**Chiz** (2:47)
It's been a big day if you can't tell.

**Rhys** (2:48)
We've just wrapped up on our freediving instructors course. It was an amazing week of trials and tribulations. Absolutely. Man, I don't think I've been that impressed with humans capability as I had been this week. So many different people.
The speeches were amazing. Yours Adam, yours Ryan, especially because you guys were worried about it. For me, it's something I'm comfortable with. But yours was absolutely amazing.
And then maybe do you want to go through your journey, Liv?

**Noffs** (3:25)
I know, yeah. Just with the speeches, I guess, that was a requirement. Yeah. Half an hour. Yeah. So we did get hit with, it wasn't just all diving and pool requirements. So there was a 30 minute oral presentation that we had to whip up together. Yeah.
And I don't know about anyone else, but I haven't put a PowerPoint together since I was in schools. I was very well out of practice. So thank you for that, Rosie.

**Liv** (3:49)
It was a little Chad GTP of yours, but you got away with it. No one noticed.

**Noffs** (3:53)
Hey, you said you didn't pick up on it, sir.

**Rhys** (3:57)
Do you want to maybe grab that mic? We'll talk about maybe both of our journeys.

**Liv** (4:01)
Yeah. So when we left off, obviously we were laughing, giggling. Everything was fine. Had a nice dinner on the beach.
It felt really, really good. And I went to bed that night, and I woke up in the middle of the night and I said to Matty, I was like, I think my nose is a bit blocked and my ears feel a bit funny. Didn't think too much of it. Went to sleep and then woke up sick the next day, which is not what you want on a dive trip.

**Rhys** (4:25)
Day two of the... or day three?

**Liv** (4:28)
Day three.

**Noffs** (4:30)
What depths were we hitting the day before? So what were we doing producing dives?

**Rhys** (4:35)
25, I said.

**Liv** (4:36)
I got my 32, but I did it free immersion, which isn't even a requirement because we thought, oh, we've got all week to go.

**Rhys** (4:43)
Yeah.

**Liv** (4:44)
And then I thought, oh, sick, like I've got plenty of time to get the 32 free immersion. Anyway. Yeah. Woke up crook and had a little setback. Sorry, guys. We've just got our meals arriving. Just to give you a little update of where we are. We've changed. We're not in bed. We're changing location. We're down by the beach. Where town are we in? Singaraja. Singaraja.