Hi guys, Sorry for the lack of correspondance to date, believe it or not this is my first afternoon off since arriving in Egypt. The first three weeks were taken up with some serious cramming before the start of the IDC (Instructor Development Course) which, thankfully went really well and I passed. After that, before I could start teaching I had to wait a week and a half before my number came through. During which time I took the opportunity to do some technical diving, for which the training is really quite difficult and intense but I'm now certified as a solo diver to the depth of 65 metres of sea water. The worst part of the training is a toss up between the 30 metre underwater swim to my stage/sling tang, with no SCUBA equipment
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