All I really have to say is wow, that course is worth every penny. I will leave it to the others that were in the group to announce if they passed the course or not. I was luckily enough to have squeaked by and received a rec pass, due to not having doubles and a can light.
All in all the course was very well laid out, On friday we met and had classroom sessions and fitness testing at the Scuba sciences 7th street shop, thank you by the way for allowing us to use the facilities. On saturady we were out at the lake conducting 3 dives. These dives ranged form practicing fin kicks to practicing the basic five drills, reg removal and replace, exchanging regs, mask clear and mask removal, and for the life of me I can't remember the other, possibly air share. Anyways these all had to be done while maintaining bouyancy. Which is not as easy as it sounds when you are trying to remain perfectly trim and still in the water column.
The next day had us shooting SMB's, and again practicing our backwards kicks and helicopter turns, as well as doing the unconcious/toxing diver rescue from the bottom which I must say I did horribly, sorry for killing ya Kevin. After all of this we went out on our own little dive that we planned but I turned it after about 10 minutes due to some serious leg cramps the kind that just knot up on ya after a hard game of rugby or soccer, having not eaten or drank any water since about 5 in the morning can do that to a person. We were trying to bang out the rest of the course. Oh and in between all the dives and lectures on sunday, we got to watch a boat catch fire and have our dive site(Vista Point) swarmed by every moron in the lake who had to come running to see what the smoke was. Seriously I wonder where these people get there boat safety courses from or whatver it is called, talk about idiots.
Anyways enough of the ranting and raving about the boat. After completing our dives on Sunday we went to the local Red Robin on Happy Valley and had a debriefing and wrote a test for the course. After all of this we were sat down one by one and we gave our own evaluations to the instuctor. He either agreed or disagreed with our remarks and we scored our selves on our performance, with his insite. After all of this he told us whether er got a provisional or a pass, since nobody took the course in a tec format nobody received the tec rating.
Alot of intricate details like the secret hand shake and the ceremony were left out due to secracy so please do not ask about those. Obviously the course involved alot more I just do not feel like writing detailed events of what happened.
Well I thing that should about cover it. If Charles or Matt can think of anything to add, please do. My thanks goes out to Karen, Kevin and Edison, as well as Scuba Sciences for all of the help in putting on a great weekend for our Fundies course.
Steve