Wednesday 28 October 2009

Night Diver Course

 Well I wanted to do my PADi Night Diver Speciality and found a local club down in Eastbourne that could do this. After speaking to them they told me it could be done over 2 nights in the Marina, which was good for me as it was on the way home so I could take my dive gear to work and then straight to the dive centre to do the diving.

The Instructor Dee went through all the classroom items first and I'd already completed the the reviews.

The first dive would just be for 20 minutes and this would be the navigation part of the course, which was good as I'd dives the marina a few times and had also already completed my PADi Underwater Navigation Speciality.

As we spent a bit longer on the first dive we didn't have time to complete the second dive that night. This wasn't a problem as we always had next week.

The next week we met a little earlier so we could get the two remaining dives completed, we all kitted up and got into the marina as we descended into the darkness I led the way out, we would then stop and switch off the torches and alllow our eyes to adjust to the darkness, it's amazing how much light there is and to what you can see, the silver flecks of the small fish.

Dive 3 was really just putting it all together and we completed the dive apart from my torch decided go pop and I had to switch to the backup one .

Anyway another speciality completed.

Master Scuba Diver Certification


Finally completed my PADi Master Scuba Diver, not bad when you think I only qualified as a diver on 22nd August 2009, I managed to rack up 52 dives and five specialities which include, navigation, drysuit, Peak perfamce Bouyancy, Nitrox and Search & Recovery. As well as Advanced Open Water Diver and Rescue Diver.

Next Stop Divemaster......!