Got back Yesterday from doing as much of my Divemaster course as time permitted.
I don't really know what to say.
Did I work my a## off. Yep. Have I worked my a## off for the past few months. YEP. Did it pay off er um yea you could say that.
The written final exam is a two parter. Part one I got 100%-Part 2 I got four questions wrong and two were down to the way the questions were worded.
The 400m swim someone lit a rocket up my backside.--fastest time Ive covered 400m in the pool was was 9 minutes 45 and the actual sea swim I did in 6 minutes 45 for a 4 points from 5.
Snorkle again same rocket so 800 in 15 minutes something for four points.
Tired diver tow-four points.
Float/survival swim was 5 points.
I need a total of 15 points to pass so have 17 so far with the gear swap still to do.
I do need to do the gear swap for 3 or more points so that will be 20 of a possible 25
The 24 skill test caught me out in a few places.Mainly areas I stopped thinking about what I was doing years ago so I had to actually think through the skill and do it SLOWLY to emphasise the important points.. First run through and frankly I doubt if I got threes (out of five) second run through got it right. being able to DO something is a whole lot different from TEACHING the self same something.
Of all things my biggest fail was gear on/off on the surface. Ive used the arms crossed gear in front of you method for years so it took ages to go to the Padi method.
The boss seemed to be happy with my efforts and I hope all the instructors were happy with the (small) help I was giving them.
Two Highlights so far were a family group doing a DSD dive. The son was a bit slow with his learning. It was wonderfull watching him open up and enjoy the dive. The second was a Lovely Japanese couple. Husband had done his Open water course elsewhere recently wife went with the dive shop Im doing my DM with.She was genuinely terrified in the pool but was determined to succeed.Beeing even a bit involved as she relaxed and began to enjoy first the pool then later the open sea was just amazing. Ive realised I get genuine joy out of showing other people this wonderfull world I've almost taken for granted. A bit more work to do but the back of it is broken (I hope).
Some of it will be done at home based on local diving and some will be done in September/October.
So Not quite a DM YET but a lot closer than a few weeks ago.
I don't really know what to say.
Did I work my a## off. Yep. Have I worked my a## off for the past few months. YEP. Did it pay off er um yea you could say that.
The written final exam is a two parter. Part one I got 100%-Part 2 I got four questions wrong and two were down to the way the questions were worded.
The 400m swim someone lit a rocket up my backside.--fastest time Ive covered 400m in the pool was was 9 minutes 45 and the actual sea swim I did in 6 minutes 45 for a 4 points from 5.
Snorkle again same rocket so 800 in 15 minutes something for four points.
Tired diver tow-four points.
Float/survival swim was 5 points.
I need a total of 15 points to pass so have 17 so far with the gear swap still to do.
I do need to do the gear swap for 3 or more points so that will be 20 of a possible 25
The 24 skill test caught me out in a few places.Mainly areas I stopped thinking about what I was doing years ago so I had to actually think through the skill and do it SLOWLY to emphasise the important points.. First run through and frankly I doubt if I got threes (out of five) second run through got it right. being able to DO something is a whole lot different from TEACHING the self same something.
Of all things my biggest fail was gear on/off on the surface. Ive used the arms crossed gear in front of you method for years so it took ages to go to the Padi method.
The boss seemed to be happy with my efforts and I hope all the instructors were happy with the (small) help I was giving them.
Two Highlights so far were a family group doing a DSD dive. The son was a bit slow with his learning. It was wonderfull watching him open up and enjoy the dive. The second was a Lovely Japanese couple. Husband had done his Open water course elsewhere recently wife went with the dive shop Im doing my DM with.She was genuinely terrified in the pool but was determined to succeed.Beeing even a bit involved as she relaxed and began to enjoy first the pool then later the open sea was just amazing. Ive realised I get genuine joy out of showing other people this wonderfull world I've almost taken for granted. A bit more work to do but the back of it is broken (I hope).
Some of it will be done at home based on local diving and some will be done in September/October.
So Not quite a DM YET but a lot closer than a few weeks ago.