Diving Certificate Course - Day 1
8:30 a.m. check in - 17 nervous pupils from all corners of the world each with the hope of becoming a certified open water diver in 5 days time. Felt like being back in school but much more fun. Just want to mention that all the students are young enough to be my grandkids.
9:00 a.m. movie time followed by questions and more questions (100% correct in each of the 3 chapters we studied this morning). 4 hours later it was time for lunch for some of us - medicals for the others.
1:00 - 2:00 lunch - time to reflect - what the hell am I doing here???
2:00 Theory over, fun over, now to the practical. First up put all your gear together, knowing what to screw in where, what to tighten, what to turn on when; swim 200 metres, non stop, followed by 10 minutes of treading water. Damn near killed me.
3:00 - 5:30 Water fun - not. Clearing masks, learning signals, recovering and purging your regulator, breathing out of a regulator gone mad, taking off and putting on your mask under water, equalizing your ears, etc. If there was any opportunity of taking in water I took it, and was quite surprised to see that there was any water left in the pool when I got out.
5:30 - 6:00 Time to recap - do I go on with this self inflicted torture or pull the plug, take my money back and run? At this moment in time doing all these torturous things in the deep dark ocean is absolutely terrifying. One more day of classroom and pool antics and I'm sure my mind will be clearer, maybe.
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