This was only my second time in the pool with SCUBA gear on..the first was the Discover SCUBA class.
My girlfriend and I are taking private lessons and it was just her, me and 2 instructors in the pool. Pretty good setup if you ask me. We finished all the skills required for the first 3 confined dives..we just flew through the skills. I only had a problem with mask clearing...I practiced this numerous times in my pool without a problem, but for some reason with a regulator in my mouth, as I blew out of my nose to clear the water I would inhale ever so slightly through my nose and then..well you all know. :/ My instructor watched me and pointed out what I was doing and all is well now...just got to concentrate on it until it becomes natural.
Overall, it was excellent and we had a lot of fun...the instructor was very patient and explained the skills before we did them...then demonstrated them and then had us do them. We just moved from skill to skill...
He had us do this neat game called the nickles game....he would toss a bunch of nickles on the pool bottom and we had to go retrieve them one by one..and then put it in our mask through the skirt..obviously it was a mask clearing game..he said if we were clearing our mask right then the nickles would stay in the mask. The person with the most nickles..wins.
Anyway, just wanted to share my experience..next class is Friday.
Jason
My girlfriend and I are taking private lessons and it was just her, me and 2 instructors in the pool. Pretty good setup if you ask me. We finished all the skills required for the first 3 confined dives..we just flew through the skills. I only had a problem with mask clearing...I practiced this numerous times in my pool without a problem, but for some reason with a regulator in my mouth, as I blew out of my nose to clear the water I would inhale ever so slightly through my nose and then..well you all know. :/ My instructor watched me and pointed out what I was doing and all is well now...just got to concentrate on it until it becomes natural.
Overall, it was excellent and we had a lot of fun...the instructor was very patient and explained the skills before we did them...then demonstrated them and then had us do them. We just moved from skill to skill...
He had us do this neat game called the nickles game....he would toss a bunch of nickles on the pool bottom and we had to go retrieve them one by one..and then put it in our mask through the skirt..obviously it was a mask clearing game..he said if we were clearing our mask right then the nickles would stay in the mask. The person with the most nickles..wins.
Anyway, just wanted to share my experience..next class is Friday.
Jason