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So I'm the guy that Duane thought liked the idea of NEVER wearing a mask during exercises. I think Donny actually paid Duane for that little 'experience' of mine.

A couple of the finer points:

Dive one, day one:
Skills dive had me feeling ok about my diving. My skills weren't perfect in horizontal
trim, and I did hit a few snags, but hey, that's why you take a class right?

Confidence is good.

Dive two, day one:
Valve drill. New doubles divers. I'm the first to get to do it. Enough said.

Confidence kicked a bit, but hey, you can't do it perfect the first time you try right?

Dive one, day two:
Who is stupid enough to bring new undergarments to 'try out' while taking Duane's class? Me.

Confidence takes a beating.

Dive two, day two:
When Duane took my mask I was so focused on trying to do the ascent/descent drill that I didn't understand his signal for 'give me your mask." He kept poking on the glass on my mask and kept thinking "What am I not watching? Should I be monitoring something better?" As I'm trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong with the drill Duane grabs my mask and it's gone. Finally I realized....

Confidence left on the bottom of Haigh.

Dive three, day two:
I was sure Donny was gonna get to lose his mask on this dive. I mean, who would steal the same suckers mask twice in row right? Duane would...

Confidence is now buried about 5 ft deep in Haigh. I'm sure one day I'll go back and try to find it.

All in all I would do this course again in a second. At about 5 years of diving and well over 100 dives I thought it was time for a gut check. Duane delivered as promised.