Fishkiller
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so I go out for my first AOW dive, The Search and Recovery. That dive was selected because that was the only dive for this weekend, all the other instructors were doing weekend classroom and confined water. There were two students who had AOW so could do the complete specialty and there were three of whom I was one that were OW working on AOW, and one guy going for his drysuit.
What a mess.. the one guy's drysuit was too small so the DM loaned him his,(who would've thunk a DM didn't want to get wet.) then the instructor had the AOW's do some skills while as the three of us looked for a lost fin. diver 2 of 3 lost it. it was a search and recovery dive so practice in real life situation. well we decided that I was going to swim and the finless would be the pivot. The pivot is suppose to stay put not drift. so in 2 foot vis water I was swimming all over the place at the end of a rope. when I bumped into diver 3 of 3 I stopped, at first I asked myself how he get here? that's when I realized the pivot was moving also....so it was 6 foot deep water. after the instructor left group one, made us wait while he looked for the fin.. if the pivot would've stay put I could've found it on the second circle only about 4 foot away from where the pivot should've stayed...
on the U search,,, 2 of 3 and 3of 3 couldn't stay down, wrong weight too lite..then 3 of 3 couldn't read his compass in the water, too small. I started getting frustrated and started moving to fast, 3 of3 wanted to know how I could go in a circle with three compass headings??I do too.
I thought it was fun actually lifting something.
Did I learn anything from that dive?? yes threesomes don't work well for me, I need to slow down. And the instructor should have only worked with one group at a time and not let the blind lead the blind.
I didn't like that instructor's style, but like the shop and other instructors at the shop. I almost didn't let him sign my log book because I felt he only wanted the certs..I mean if I wanted to learn by myself I'd dive alone...arg and I want an answer when I ask the question not when it is convienent.
practicing adding and sudtracting 90
What a mess.. the one guy's drysuit was too small so the DM loaned him his,(who would've thunk a DM didn't want to get wet.) then the instructor had the AOW's do some skills while as the three of us looked for a lost fin. diver 2 of 3 lost it. it was a search and recovery dive so practice in real life situation. well we decided that I was going to swim and the finless would be the pivot. The pivot is suppose to stay put not drift. so in 2 foot vis water I was swimming all over the place at the end of a rope. when I bumped into diver 3 of 3 I stopped, at first I asked myself how he get here? that's when I realized the pivot was moving also....so it was 6 foot deep water. after the instructor left group one, made us wait while he looked for the fin.. if the pivot would've stay put I could've found it on the second circle only about 4 foot away from where the pivot should've stayed...
on the U search,,, 2 of 3 and 3of 3 couldn't stay down, wrong weight too lite..then 3 of 3 couldn't read his compass in the water, too small. I started getting frustrated and started moving to fast, 3 of3 wanted to know how I could go in a circle with three compass headings??I do too.
I thought it was fun actually lifting something.
Did I learn anything from that dive?? yes threesomes don't work well for me, I need to slow down. And the instructor should have only worked with one group at a time and not let the blind lead the blind.
I didn't like that instructor's style, but like the shop and other instructors at the shop. I almost didn't let him sign my log book because I felt he only wanted the certs..I mean if I wanted to learn by myself I'd dive alone...arg and I want an answer when I ask the question not when it is convienent.
practicing adding and sudtracting 90