Well at this time in the year I always start thinking of what I want to achieve within the next year, this includes holidays. So where do I start, firstly my main goal is to complete all my PADi Tec 40,45 and 50m. Which will then allow me to do some deeper dives over the summer, gaining experience ready for doing my Tex Instructor course at a later date.
Hopefully by Easter 2011 I will have enough certs to apply for my Master Scuba Diver Trainer(MSDT) Instructor.
Holidays
To be honest I wouldn't mind going to Egypt to finish my PADi Speciality Instructor which will allow me to teach nearly 20 speciality courses. I'm already looking forward to going back to Zante in Greece for some more caves and caven diving, as for the rest of the year it's either going to be 2 weeks in Thialand or the Maldives.
Also a few long weekends in Malta to hopefully do the first of my PADi Trimix course.
Monday, 27 December 2010
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Teaching Nitrox Speciality Course
Now that some of my PADi Speciality Instructor Certs are hrough one of the courses I can teach is the PADi Enriched Air (Nitrox) Course. So I've had a couple students complete the course.
So a big congratulations to Carl and George.
Thursday, 18 November 2010
Onward to Tec deep, deeper and deeper still
This awill allow me to teach down to 50m evently, however you have to be a PADi Tec deep diver first, this means that I have to shadow the the Tec40 and Tec45 courses before I can go onto the Tec50.
These are going to be run starting in March 2011 and should be finished about June. Ryby will be conducting all the training from blueoceandiving.
Wednesday, 17 November 2010
Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Digital Underwater Photography Speciality Instructor Course
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.
Monday, 15 November 2010
Sunday, 14 November 2010
Hoborough Lake 12th November 2010
Had a great day at Holborough on saturday,met up with Jon, Marcel and Jim(bearded diver). Jon and Jim turned upa little late, however this didn't put us off. The first dive we had another diver call Harry tag along with us as he was on his own.
Jim and Jon finally kitted up, so the order was Jim and Jon together and myself and Marcel and Harry would keep up the rear so to speak. Marcel wanted to try out his new sony camera and I took mine along and placed it in video mode. We entered the water and set off as the visability wasn't that good around 4-6meters.
We all managed the loose each other so we surfaced and swam out to the bouy and down to the platform and then set off around the lake. Jim and Jon (bloody bearded divers) seemed to be walking on the bottom with the amount of it they was kicking up. Well as Marcel only had a semidry on after 35 minutes it was getting to cold for him so we headed back to the slipway.
Dive 2: This was just Jon Jim and myself, I used this to play the roll of instructor and told them we was going to do some drysuit skills and sort out there bouyancy problems. I adjusted Jim's weighting by removing the ankle weights and attaching them to the front of him. I was going to conduct only 2 skills which was pin pivot and a horizontal hover. We entered the water and swam out to the platform and desended down to it.
Jim had some problems equalizing however he got over that, we was on the platform, On with the first skill of the fin pivot to be completed both with thw drysuit inflator and then using the BCD inflator. The second skill was the horizontal hover, once they were both in a nice hover position I got them to swim around the position it was amazing that just changing Jim's weighting by removing the ankle weights he was nearly horizontal.
It was then back onto the platform and we all set off for a swim around the lake, I led the way following the ropes, we came onto a large wooden platforms and both Jim and Jon glided over it with any problems. I swapped positions so I could follow them and check the smoke screen however they was now only kicking up around 5-10% of what they did on the first dive.
Jim and Jon finally kitted up, so the order was Jim and Jon together and myself and Marcel and Harry would keep up the rear so to speak. Marcel wanted to try out his new sony camera and I took mine along and placed it in video mode. We entered the water and set off as the visability wasn't that good around 4-6meters.
We all managed the loose each other so we surfaced and swam out to the bouy and down to the platform and then set off around the lake. Jim and Jon (bloody bearded divers) seemed to be walking on the bottom with the amount of it they was kicking up. Well as Marcel only had a semidry on after 35 minutes it was getting to cold for him so we headed back to the slipway.
Dive 2: This was just Jon Jim and myself, I used this to play the roll of instructor and told them we was going to do some drysuit skills and sort out there bouyancy problems. I adjusted Jim's weighting by removing the ankle weights and attaching them to the front of him. I was going to conduct only 2 skills which was pin pivot and a horizontal hover. We entered the water and swam out to the platform and desended down to it.
Jim had some problems equalizing however he got over that, we was on the platform, On with the first skill of the fin pivot to be completed both with thw drysuit inflator and then using the BCD inflator. The second skill was the horizontal hover, once they were both in a nice hover position I got them to swim around the position it was amazing that just changing Jim's weighting by removing the ankle weights he was nearly horizontal.
It was then back onto the platform and we all set off for a swim around the lake, I led the way following the ropes, we came onto a large wooden platforms and both Jim and Jon glided over it with any problems. I swapped positions so I could follow them and check the smoke screen however they was now only kicking up around 5-10% of what they did on the first dive.
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