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couple of days IDC prep, 12 days of IDC and then if all goes well 2 and a half days of IE
Strangely enough even though I am totally bricking it (more so than my DM) I’m really looking forward to it.
So in just over 2 weeks I could be an OWSI, and I can walk about with an instructor shirt like I own the place !
NOTE: IDC – Instructor Development Course, IE – Instructor Examination, OWSI – Open Water Scuba Instructor
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Tradition states that this is performed butt naked.
However, as it coincided with the final dive of my wreck spec (the dive where you actually penetrate the wreck) I bottled out of that not so much that it was a tight squeeze, but because I didn’t want to get anything caught/snagged on any metal or coral (btw most coral is as sharp as glass)
I did however get down to the buff when we came back out and me and German Mike went looking for one of the big bombs that are near the wreck
I think Mike is now traumitised as I decided to put my shorts on at the surface rather than at 24 metres and he had do hang with me for 3 minutes at the safety stop with me doing my nudey superman impression hanging from the line
Happy days…
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Finally, I am now a PADI Divemaster !
Did my final ocean day yesterday where I has to do rescue 6 and 7 (bring unresponsive diver from bottom, get him to surface, administer rescue breathing while doing kit removal and then toe him back to the boat) and not forgetting underwater kit exchange.
As fate would have it I didn’t end up with any of my dive team who are about the same soze as me, oh no that would of been too easy, I got assigned to the lovely but every so tiny Chelsea (she is a size S BCD and I’m a L – genius !)
Props to Chelsea for keeping her cool during the kit exchange whilst I nearly lost the plot
Thanks also to the rest of my dive team – Matt, Sean and Neil. And not forgetting Barry the instructor for putting the time in for those 2 days but for also trying to take his BCD off in the ocean and for being the worst DSD ever !
Next stop is the IDC (Instructor Development Course) which starts at the end of this month.
Oh and one more thing, I’ve decided to get this on the back of my divemaster shirt
DIVEMASTER
“MADE IN SCOTLAND FROM GIRDERS !”
Only Angus and Colin (the two Scottish instructors) actually get this, everybody else looks at me like I’m an eedjit
It was either that or
DIVEMASTER
“GONNAE NO DAE THAT ?”
You decide…
