Digital Underwater Photography Speciality Instructor Course

Well tonight is the Digital Underwater Speciality course which I'm looking forward to, camera is packed and ready to go.

The first part will be in the classroom followed by a dip in the pool.

My setup is a Canon 500D dSLR with either a Sigma 10-20mm Wide angle lense or a Canon 28-55mm Lense, the housing is a Sea & Sea RDX450,and  6" dome and with a Sea & Sea Stobe, this is rated down to 60m

Well we had a play in the pool doing various things, here are a few from the pool session, note to self next time check the strobe batteries before getting into the pool.

SMB fun

I now have 5 Instructor Specialities to be able to teach

I finally managed to gain 5 speciality instructor courses now that I'm able to teach, all I need now is to get some people to do the courses and then I can become a Master Scuba Diver Trainer Instructor (MSDT). So please I need some students (Victims) to practice on.




What speciality Instructor courses can I teach:-

Drysuit
Enriched Air (Nitrox)
Night Diver
Emergency Oxygen Provider
Boat Diver
Along with being a Open Water Scuba Instructor I can also do Peak Performance Buoyancy

Drysuit Speciality Instructor Course

Well another Instructor Speciality down and plenty more to go. Last night it was the turn of Drysuit Speciality Instructor.

Yet more fun was had in the pool with our drysuits on being spun around making sure that you are able to dump air from the suit should all the air end up in the feet of the suit.

Along with the usual hoovering and fin pivots both using the drysuit inflator hose and your BCD. The some kick and glide around the pool.

London Diving Chamber 50m Dry dive

Well a few of us made it to the London Dive Chamber last night to complete a 40m dry dive, however after a couple of people not turning up this all changed to a 50m dive. Got to say thanks to the guys that didn't turn up the rest of us enjoyed it even more.

Having never been in a hyperbaric chamber before I thought it would be a good idea to go have a look at one, the good people of the London Diving Chamber http://londondivingchamber.co.uk/ offer this for a small fee



Anyway on the list was Lindsey, Chantelle, Angela, Elwyn, Vicki and myelf(Paul). We paid our money and got changed into our jim jams ready to get into the chamber. We was asked to complete a simple test on the surface which would be repeated at 50m to check how we was effected by narcosis. After a briefing about the chamber and also about the dive, we all climbed inside and the doors was shut behind us.


Even though this wasn't a real dive with regards to kitting up and getting wet this was going to be a first for alot of the group including myself down to 50m.
As we started to descend the chamber started tp warm up and we was soon at 15m we had a quick check to make sure that everyone was OK and then it was down even deeper we was soon at 30m , and then it started Chantelle couldn't controll her laughing so we worked out that she was NARKED already and we was only just over half way down. We soon was at 40m and onwards to 50m. After about 5minutes we was down at 50m, we was given a sheet of paper which had some wording on in a set time we had to circle as many L's as possible.

Well this sent certain people over the edge, like Vicki's pen not working at 50m. We started to ascend with the first stop at 12m for 2 minutes then 9m for 6 minutes, followed by 6m for 28 minutes.

After getting to the surface we all completed our logbooks and checked our dive computers mine read 50.2m.

Result for the narcosis test well I scored 25 on the surface and 25 on the bottom.