Into the
sea
Today was
the day we were all back to what we were like all those months or years ago,
when we got into the ocean for the very first time… Nervous and scared!
When we
arrived at the Dive Center, the first thing we did was to present our briefings
for the Open Water Exercises. We had to combine the two skills into one
briefing, and my skills for today were the regulator recovery and clearing, and
the partial mask flood. I think I am very lucky with these skills, but before I
get to excited, we’ll just see how they go.
We drove to
the Marina in several cars, fully loaded with tanks and equipment. When we got
there, we set up our equipment, gathered our slates and thoughts together and
got onto the boat.
It was a
cold, windy day, so we are hoping that we won’t be in the water for too long,
as you start to cool down very quickly after about 30 minutes.
Because
some of the candidates took so long to do their Open Water Exercises, we ended
up in the water for 72 minutes, and this was only the time we spend under the water!
Obviously, we were all shaking and wanting to get out by the end of it.
Fortunately, when we were back in the marina, the sun was out to warm us up
quickly.
We did our
debriefs in the marina, packed up our equipment and had a nice English
Breakfast for lunch.
Back at the
dive center, we got our scores, and it turned out I had been worried for no
reason at all. I scored two straight fives on my Open Water Exercises.
We listened
to one more presentation; “Keep Diving”, and went home to do our homework for
the next day; preparing more presentations!!
Wish me
luck!
Love, Alice
