DiveBunnie Tee Shirts: Solitary Open Water Student
After my day of being gently eased into stuff, I had another fairly easy day to continue my week. I only had 2 students! Then, when one of them turned out to have already done some stuff, there was one! Funny.
So on we went, videos one, two and three watched, and knowledge sessions done in the morning, followed by sorting out the kit and getting some grub (not necessarily in order of priority there!). Then it was into the water for the afternoon.
My guy was very keen, as his girlfriend already dives (although in my experience, this very often is not a good reason to learn to dive) and turned out to be great. I ran the first water sessions a bit like a Discover Scuba, doing the first confined session, and then heading out to Open Water Dive One… a great way to get to look at the fish and coral very early on. And as we were doing the confined work in a bouyed off area in the shallows, it really wasn’t much of a transition to go back in and just swim out a bit further to see some stuff. Very cool.
My student turned out to be great! He had natural neutral buoyancy on the first dive! Very relaxed in the water, we went on and had a great dive, saw blue spotted rays and fond Nemo, all the usual bits n bobs that we find off the beach.
Well after the dive, we even had time for a couple of the confined surface skills and to watch another video! As my student was streaking ahead of things I suggested we might even be able to finish the course early, but only if he was up for it.
Day two was more confined water sessions, which again went really well. The only skill he had to repeat was the CESA (and that one can be a bit of a toughie the first time around). And we still had plenty of time for lots of swimming around to fine tune his buoyancy. We finished all the skills that morning, so changed tanks and went in for Open Water Dive number two. Great stuff! The afternoon was spent back in the classroom finishing off the knowledge sections and doing the exam. A healthy 90% pass there, so we were able to go on a boat for our last day of the course.
Final day, we just had the last two Open Water dives to do, with their respective skills, and another Open Water Diver joins the throng.