So -- you have to know that one of my idols is Danny Riordan, who was my Cave 1 instructor. I call Danny "negative space in the water" -- he never moves except to a clear, defined purpose; otherwise, he's just a motionless shadow. I have worked for years to achieve the motionlessness that Danny has without even thinking about it.
So today, Peter and I are doing OW dives with a student. On Dive 3, we are doing an ascent up a line. We get to the 15 foot stop; viz is awful, so I am hanging out, keeping a weather eye on the student, but otherwise about half asleep. The student starts to swim toward me, so I back up; Peter intervenes, signals the student to get back on the line, and we finish the stop and surface.
Once we get there, the student says, "Well, we were at the stop, and Lynne was SO STILL. I'd been reading last night about unresponsive diver retrieval, and I thought you guys were throwing a drill at me!"
Hooray for me. I'm so motionless he thought I was dead.
So today, Peter and I are doing OW dives with a student. On Dive 3, we are doing an ascent up a line. We get to the 15 foot stop; viz is awful, so I am hanging out, keeping a weather eye on the student, but otherwise about half asleep. The student starts to swim toward me, so I back up; Peter intervenes, signals the student to get back on the line, and we finish the stop and surface.
Once we get there, the student says, "Well, we were at the stop, and Lynne was SO STILL. I'd been reading last night about unresponsive diver retrieval, and I thought you guys were throwing a drill at me!"
Hooray for me. I'm so motionless he thought I was dead.