rhyz
Contributor
Well today I finished my AOW, wasn't really the same as when I got my OW cert but another step in this. We went to Dutch on Sat and Sun, and seeing as the rest of my OW class were doing their first AOW dives I joined in and redid 3 of the dives I've previously done. Which I enjoyed, learned even more, as I do every dive I'm on. Seems like this a sport that you never stop learning it. So I buddied up with a new guy (new as in I've never dove with him before) and did the Nav again. I had to sit back and wonder...oh no. He was having so much trouble with it. I couldn't quite convay everything to him again on the slate so we surfaced and I went over what he had to do and made sure he understood. Our instructor was in the water but helping another group at the time. We go back down and do the timed cycle/kick cycle, no problem this time then we go to do the compass box, he had a little trouble..thinking he had to do a 100' box. I'm like "where is this guy going?". Again I stop him, tell him on the slate.....you can do a smaller one..please. Again we try, and he goes a bit astay, I stop him and repeat...he does it better and ends up at the same spot. Natural Nav box, good seeing as the vis totally was shot at this point, around 5. I enjoyed it because I got to the instructors side of it I quess, and I liked helping the guy out.
Then I redid the Search and Recovery, and the night dive. Which I just love to do! My first night dive was a ocean wreck on the Cranford Ferry. I loved redoing them as I got to practice more of the stuff I learned on my first dives and got more insight to the paticulars as well.
Today we did a deep and wreck, Deep was 75' about my norm I quess anymore. 6 logged at that depth, all ocean except for this one. And I've just been diving with the DM's or Instructors I know for fun. Wreck was cool we did the helicopter, very cool! I love wrecks!
But the one thing that I learned today and is a very general one and rightly so, never leave your buddy. End of the dive the instructor hand signals before, safety stop 3 minutes. (I'm used to them I've been diving alot under 60') Ascending we stop at 45' following a steel structure (the pumphouse) the instructor wanted his hood off as he was hot. My buddy is close to me and I signal him to stop. Help the instructor get changed, look around...*** where's my buddy! Signal ok to me before, he understands right? wrong. We look up, nothing....I'm pissed and worried. We ascend to 15' and do our stop, looking around the whole time. After surfacing, he not on the surface either, and he was at 800psi on the ascend. After a minute I know he is OOA, but being his buddy all throughout OW I know him and how he acts. I'm not worried but pissed the F off. I know he went up, no safety as togather diving we never went deep enough to really do one. And I know he just walked back to strip down. The instructors goes back down to double check, and nothing. We go back and sure enough he is stripped and just chillin out. Needless to say I smacked him a couple of times upside the head with my hood after the Instructor got done chewing his ***** off.
But as I assumed, he thought at the mask changing we (the instructor and myself would go back down seeing as we had plenty of air) he ascended right up, and went in. I've never been so pissed when diving before, never.
So anyway...got my Advanced done but learned a whole lot more over this weekend to say the least!
19 logged so far, hope after this week/weekend I can practice more and have over 20 for the Big "O" I've got 6 dives at 75+ so far, but would like a couple more.
Then I redid the Search and Recovery, and the night dive. Which I just love to do! My first night dive was a ocean wreck on the Cranford Ferry. I loved redoing them as I got to practice more of the stuff I learned on my first dives and got more insight to the paticulars as well.
Today we did a deep and wreck, Deep was 75' about my norm I quess anymore. 6 logged at that depth, all ocean except for this one. And I've just been diving with the DM's or Instructors I know for fun. Wreck was cool we did the helicopter, very cool! I love wrecks!
But the one thing that I learned today and is a very general one and rightly so, never leave your buddy. End of the dive the instructor hand signals before, safety stop 3 minutes. (I'm used to them I've been diving alot under 60') Ascending we stop at 45' following a steel structure (the pumphouse) the instructor wanted his hood off as he was hot. My buddy is close to me and I signal him to stop. Help the instructor get changed, look around...*** where's my buddy! Signal ok to me before, he understands right? wrong. We look up, nothing....I'm pissed and worried. We ascend to 15' and do our stop, looking around the whole time. After surfacing, he not on the surface either, and he was at 800psi on the ascend. After a minute I know he is OOA, but being his buddy all throughout OW I know him and how he acts. I'm not worried but pissed the F off. I know he went up, no safety as togather diving we never went deep enough to really do one. And I know he just walked back to strip down. The instructors goes back down to double check, and nothing. We go back and sure enough he is stripped and just chillin out. Needless to say I smacked him a couple of times upside the head with my hood after the Instructor got done chewing his ***** off.
But as I assumed, he thought at the mask changing we (the instructor and myself would go back down seeing as we had plenty of air) he ascended right up, and went in. I've never been so pissed when diving before, never.
So anyway...got my Advanced done but learned a whole lot more over this weekend to say the least!
19 logged so far, hope after this week/weekend I can practice more and have over 20 for the Big "O" I've got 6 dives at 75+ so far, but would like a couple more.
