Its Official !!!

I have now got my unique PADI PRO number - 338695 .... OMG !!! Cant believe I have remembered that already .

 

 

 

I've only gone and done it ...

That's right folks - I've done it !!!

I'm a PADI PRO !!!

I'm a Divemaster. 

Many thanks to everyone who helped me throughout the course - you know who you all are - too many to name here. 

I said way back in January that I wanted to get it sorted by the time I go to Bali (Nov. 2013). And I have !!  

D(M) Day

Well tomorrow (Oct 12th 2012) is D-Day. Hopefully after a hard long slog I will become a divemaster !!

Just have to navigate my way through the skills circuit then I'm done - and on course for my deadline of November 9 (when I'm off to Bali)

I shall blog more after I'm a DM (with all the thanks etc !!!). 

EAP

I cheated a little on my Emergency Action Plan - I used the EAP I used for my Resuce Course (but obliviously added more detail to it)

I was impressed !!!

Assessments

Part of the DM Course I had to have several assessments of a variety of things

Assisting with OW students in confined water

Assisting with OW students in OW

Leading certified divers,just to name 3. 

I learnt a lot from these especially the OW students in OW as we were in Stoney Cove and the viz was shockingly sh*te (under 1m in places). I has to be on the ball there !!

Waterman Skills

Ok the biggest things I wasn't looking forward to were the waterman skills

400m swim

800m swim

15 minute tread

But I passed all them with ease !!!

The swims weren't as bad as I thought and the last 45 seconds in the tread were the worst !!!

Other skills were 100m tired diver tow and kit exchange whist buddy breathing. 

Nearly There

Well not updated this blog in a while so here is a big update after a weekend of divemastering !!


Last bank holiday weekend I was up at Capernwray doing my divemaster stuff !!!


Started on the Saturday with  bit of DLD - Discover Local Diving with fun divers

On sunday it was a bit of Assisting certified divers on ConEd

This bit was fun !!! It was assisting on the Rescue Course ... Love assisting on that course. 

Skills Signed Off

This past Saturday, myself and 2 other DMT's got a lot of skills signed off by scoring 4 and 5's

The skills were

• Equipment Assembly
• Buddy Check
• Deep Water Entry
• 5 Point Decent
• Equipment R+R on Surface
• Equipment R+R underwater

More skill sessions to come and a chance to get even more signed off

Another 5 !!!!

Got another 5 points on the 15m tread water skill on the DiveMaster course. So that's 2 skills done both scoring maximum points.

All I need now is 5 points out of the 3 remaining skills (400m swim, 800m swim and Equipment exchange whist buddy breathing)

My next skill will be the equipment exchange whist buddy breathing (5 points please) then the killer swims wont be crucial to success,

So how bad was the tread water .... hard work - especially the last 2 minutes with hands out the water.. wouldn't like to do that again in a hurry !!!

Weekend of DM things

Ok so this past weekend I was up at Capernwray and got a good few things sorted on my DM Course. 

Dive Site Set Up & Management 

Sorted this ( I think)

Dive Site Orientation 

Gave my first Dive Site Orientation to loads of students and loads of divers and all the instructors came over too. 

Enjoyed it but got a few points to add next time 

Next I was assisting on an Open Water Course, so I could gain an knowledge of what goes on under the water. 

So a valuable weekend. Missed out on leading certified divers on a dive but that's next time !!! And next time will be for FUN !!