We just had our first day of training. Im glad that i survived. We get there and had to do the physical tests. 100 yard swim and a 15 minute tread. Nothing too hard. Next we got on all our equipment and went to the bottom. we did removal and replacement of our mask, weightbelt, BCD. still the same stuff i've done in ow and aow. after that, we did a ditch and don. We went to the bottom, took our BCD off, then our mask,looped it through a strap in our bcd so it wouldnt go away. then we took off our weightbelts and went to the surface. we caught our breaths and went down to put it all on again. It would've been a lot easier if we didnt have on 7mm wetsuits with no weight belts. we had our fins which made it at least possible. One guy couldnt make it back down to get his air, so he got out of the pool. Then we got out with all our gear on, and took it off. the next drill we stood out of the pool with our fins, weightbelt and mask on our left arm, with our 2nd stage in our left hand while we stradled a tank with the air off. we jumped in, had to turn on our air, and get all the stuff back on.
it wasnt too hard, but it wasnt anything i've ever had to do in a class or in the open water. Cant wait till next week when we actually start training.