SharkDZ, our two classmates and I audited an OW class first OW dives yesterday at La Jolla Shores.
Wow!
It was very interesting. The students did very well at performing their skills and seemed to display a high level of comfort at being under water. On the other hand, Id completely forgot about all the arm swimming, bouncing around, "rototilling", "bicycling" and such. The vis was pretty poor, 10 to 15 feet, until the class got to the bottom. The vis dropped to about 5 feet, then!:11:
In the afternoon, the four of us DM candidates did our Rescue skills. Woof! I dont remember the skills being that strenuous in Rescue Class! Im the largest guy in the class at 62" / 240#. Brad is by far and away the smallest at about 59" / 150# (wet). So...Brad and I had to pull SharkDZ through the surf, out of the water and up to the "dry" sand. Im not saying Shark is chunky, but, geez, man next time, how about sucking a tank of helium for us!
One more classroom session, one more pool session and then the exams
Someone in another thread mentioned a huge stack of slates for DM. I seem to have collected about a dozen or so and that includes the Rescue/EFR and DAN DEMP slates. Does anyone have a list of the slates that they got or we SHOULD have?
Ian
Wow!
It was very interesting. The students did very well at performing their skills and seemed to display a high level of comfort at being under water. On the other hand, Id completely forgot about all the arm swimming, bouncing around, "rototilling", "bicycling" and such. The vis was pretty poor, 10 to 15 feet, until the class got to the bottom. The vis dropped to about 5 feet, then!:11:
In the afternoon, the four of us DM candidates did our Rescue skills. Woof! I dont remember the skills being that strenuous in Rescue Class! Im the largest guy in the class at 62" / 240#. Brad is by far and away the smallest at about 59" / 150# (wet). So...Brad and I had to pull SharkDZ through the surf, out of the water and up to the "dry" sand. Im not saying Shark is chunky, but, geez, man next time, how about sucking a tank of helium for us!
One more classroom session, one more pool session and then the exams
Someone in another thread mentioned a huge stack of slates for DM. I seem to have collected about a dozen or so and that includes the Rescue/EFR and DAN DEMP slates. Does anyone have a list of the slates that they got or we SHOULD have?
Ian
