Fifth Dive Class

The class work is winding down. Most of the class work involved review of the dive tables from the previous week. Not much new info was given, now it's all about remembering and reviewing for the written test next week. Wish me luck (I really don't think I need it).

The pool work started off fun, then got a little boring at the end. We started by placing 8-10 tanks roughly five feet apart around the shallow end of the pool. The object of the drill was to swim maybe twenty feet to the first tank, get a few breaths of air, then swim to the next tank. Remembering of course to blow bubbles in between tanks. I'd say this was easy, but a couple people have their own gear and without knowing what it looked like before, I couldn't find their primary regulator and had to make a quick change to get their secondary in my mouth. So, we did one round like that. Next was mask off, then the same thing. This time I always made sure to go for the secondary regulators because they are almost always bright yellow and makes it much easier to find when you can't see very far.

The last drill of the night was building on our undressing drill last week. This time it was a one on one drill with the instructor as you had to dump all your gear on the bottom of the pool, swim to the surface, get a breath, then return to the bottom and put all your gear back on. No big deal. Because it was one on one, there was lots of time to kill. I was lucky enough to be one of the first ones to go, so the remaining time in the pool I monkeyed around. I did an underwater slide into 2nd base down the shallow to deep incline. It wasn't super graceful and may have looked more like a kung fu kick in super slow motion, but I know I was safe! I had the most fun standing on my head on the bottom and watching the other people going through the drill. I probably had a world record head stand of around fifteen minutes as I attempted to kill the time.

Kind of slow getting this published this week, just seems like I've been so busy with things. Be prepared for a weeks worth of blogging to happen in the next few days.