Dive Master Skills Mastered

It was a small load of equipment today because the bulk of our work for the day was just some basic diver endurance performance.

We had the 400-meter swim, the 800-meter swim with snorkeling gear, 15 minute treading water, and the 100-meter tired diver tow.

Each task had its own benchmarks to judge our successes by, but I'm proud to say that all three of us (Joe, Frank, and Keith) did especially well in every skill.

Just to be sure, our task master, or Dave, or trainer extraordinaire if you will... (as us DM students call him ;-) made sure we didn't steal a single second in our timed skills... Is it just because he owns his own dive shop he thinks he can wield such power over us!? Good enough for me... ;-)


This aerial spy shot shows Dave and I that Keith may have had an unfair advantage with the use of his 3 mill. shorty in the treading water skill... the judges are going to have to take a second look at the results and get back to him. Sorry Keith. (not really. ;-)

Fun for the Reader!

This week was a little slow for the interesting stuff... in case you're interested, I did pass my remaining written tests: Decompression Theory and RDP, Dive Skills & Environment, Divemaster Conducted Programs, Supervising Certified Divers, and Supervising Students.

So the tough bookworm stuff is done for now, so I guess I have a little play time (of course my favorite ;-). The only thing left this week is some divemaster water skills, and I have one Open Water Diver Class to do on Saturday... no problems there.

So I spent a little time to dig up one of my favorite diving pictures for your entertainment (instead of the boring requirements of my recent tests). I can't say enough about this picture! And if I can't convince a non-diver to start to rethink their position about not beginning to dive after seeing it, well... I can't say enough about that type of person! ;-)

This little guy I saw in "The Cathedrals" (more pics from dive buddy Heather) just off the coast of the island of Lanai in Hawaii. The "Cathedrals" is a great dive spot! It's named for the great colors that get twisted as the sun light enters this partial cave from so many of it's "holes". It mimics seeing the inside of a grand cathedral for the first time with all of their popular colored, leaded-glass windows.

Although I never did actually name him, he is a "Spanish Dancer". Kind of ironic I suppose now that I'm dating a human Spanish Dancer (actually American, but after 10 years in Colombia, she speaks and dances with the best of them, even this gringo! ;-)

I hope you enjoyed my pic and some of the info. It's the kind of stuff that really gets me going every day!