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January 19, 2008, 5:36 am
Filed under: diving

Dive Master in Training for you land lubbers…

Basically, I’ve finished week one of my Dive Master (DM) course and I spend the next month learning/gaining experience assisting with training courses, running dive boats, doing boat/dive briefings, looking after customers and being a general dogsbody

The first week was fairly tough, my dive skills (you get graded on 20 of them) are getting better and I passed the first two exams. Week two is five more exams and all the final assessments on your dive skills and timed swims (which I really need to work on)

Oh well, off to the pool now to practice my 400m freestyle in the 93 degree blazing sun.

It’s a hard life…


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hey Jim :) Nice new layout..It really looks great down there..Well congrats by your exams; you will be fine through them all.
Here it goes in working day after day(almost)and the kids come to me every 2.week and weekend.Soon here its winter(lol)holiday for the school kids.We might go skiing somewhere around here. Its only an hour away to the snow from where i live.

Comment by Scandinavian Lassie

Aye, no bad! Well, it’s drizzly in Ireland and the closest I’ll get to warm water’s if I piss myself.

Comment by Count Rosscovich

Well done! Saw a couple of dive-confidence alterts go green for you on my bleak Cadogan Square screen over the weekend. What are the steak pies like out there?

Comment by Haagar

well they have steak pies here, not so sure if they’re steak more likely ‘generic meat product’

Oh and I did my first dive brief yesterday – basically daft arse here standing in front of 30 people all about to dive a wreck at 30m telling the procedures to make sure they don’t drown themselves

You’ll be pleased to hear they all came back in one piece…

Comment by bigfatjim

what about the wreck, did you find any treasures?? :)

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