We had day one of SCUBA training today. I liked my instructor straight away. He began the class by describing how he preferred to lie in in the mornings and then dive in the afternoon. This is in contrast to all the other instructors, who he says like to start early in the mornings (7:30am). He doesn't always get his way with the boats, for example tomorrow the only boat available for us to head out on is leaving at 7:30am, but for the remaining days, he has ensured that none of us need to get out of bed by 10:00am.
His logic for diving later in the day is quite straight forward.
a) Everyone gets a lie in
b) There are less people in the water when we do dive, and we came to see fish not people
He is also Scottish, seems experienced, and seems to have a reasonable sense of humour which is all nice.
We spent this morning doing classroom work and then this afternoon in the pool. We had to demonstrate that we could use all the gear properly, look after it, learn out of air procedures, learn how to clear our mask, learn how to take our weight belt off under water (and put it on again), learn how to find our regulator if it came out of our mouth and clear it of water, learn how to take off our buoyancy control device (BCD) under water and put it on again, establish neutral buoyancy, go up, go down, and a few other skills. It all seemed quite straight forward.
I'm heading out for dinner now, and then I'm going to hit the books and do some study.
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Good luck with the scuba diving John. We're all enjoying your blogs back here, even though you're not getting many comments back. Lots of followers.
Terry and David went fishing off Mana Island for the day and caught blue cod, terakihi, parrot fish and lots of other varieties. Fish for dinner tonight!
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