Still Diving

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Ok so the pier wasn't going to be my last dive....

I have now started my Rescue diver course. Yet another thick manual and this time loads more stuff to learn. There are only two of us doing the course and it’s now starting to get a little bit specialised. Myself and a German girl called Verena. My first day was taken up doing I first aid course and then it was into applying first aid to diving situations. After a day of learning in the freezing cold pool we were off to the beach to practice for real. Oh and yet another exam which I passed with 100%

It was a cool windy day and the sea was really choppy, not the ideal weather for learning how to save people. We had lots of situations to practice and our dummy for the day did a really good impersonation of a dead or drowning diver. It was made even more interesting when people on the beach considered calling the emergency services when they saw this lifeless diver being pulled from the water.

As if on queue when it was time to do our underwater search and rescue to tide changed and the current picked up. It was all we could do to swim against the current and staying in one place was impossible. By the end of the day we were both exhausted.

In the last 2 1/2 weeks I have learned so much about diving and dive safety that there was really only one way to continue and that was to do my Dive Master course. This is the PADI professional diving qualification. It will take at least 8 weeks and cover everything in such detail that by the end of it I will be a professional diver capable of teaching certain courses.

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Comments

[amanda]

u should go for it
then u can teach diving,# Amarc Will set u up with peeps xx