Pool Weekend

Well, this weekend was fairly easy, if long hours.  All classroom and pool work with a maximum of 5 to look after.

Friday

Pool work with a nervous woman.  She had a bad experience on a SDS some time ago and came to us as she wants to dive with her partner.  Having had a good session last month, she wanted to repeat confined dives 1 & 2 as a confidence booster, prior to joining a full course.  Other than a slight panic on her initial descent, when her mask flooded slightly, it was a great evening.  She was very good at her skills and a lot more relaxed.  Having mastered her fears and with rising confidence, she elected to continue through the weekend and finish off all her pool and academic work.

So she was back on Saturday morning J

Saturday

A group of 5 for academics modules 1-3, with ages ranging from 25 through to 68.  However, all had done plenty of preparation having read all the manuals.  Unfortunately not all had done all the written prep.  Not to worry, they could so that whilst watching the DVD’s.

A steady plod through the quizzes with only a minor hiccup on module 3 for one student that was easily resolved.  On completion of the academics, one student left the group to return at  a later date to complete their pool work.  Then it was off to the pool with the remaining four for stamina exercises and skills.

Oh how unfit modern youth is.  The youngest member really struggled to complete their 200m swim, makes me feel good to be old J.

Why is it that some people can be looking at you, but not see what you are doing?  One particular student seemed to be paying attention to the skills demonstrations, but really struggled to mimic them.  It took a bit of encouragement, as well as some extra demonstrations, before they mastered them but all was all right on the night.

Sunday

The same format as Saturday, classroom then pool.  We really flew through the academics with very little trouble on the RDP, and all achieving over 90% on the final exams.

As we were ahead of time there were plenty of questions from the group on where to go next and the various aspects of diving, including one who has aspirations to be an instructor.

The last pool session went better than Saturday as our ‘non-seeing’ student was much better as performing their skills, apart from remove and replace scuba unit which was quite comical to watch.

So we now have four more students ready for Open Water, with two of them going for it this weekend.  BBBBBRRRR, 6^OC for your first venture into the unknown, it could be interesting.