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Upcoming Trip! …. Poor Knights
02 years ago
I am organising day diving trips at the Poor Knights with dive! Tutukaka on the 14th and 15th of March.
Bookings can be made through Global Dive (09 9205200) with a small deposit.
Each days diving is $130.
For those who would like to dive both days, we will be travelling up to Tutukaka on the Friday night.
If you like, you are more than welcome to drive up on the Saturday morning; although I much prefer to wake as late as possible on a Saturday and possibly get into Schnapper Rock for breakfast!
I will be arranging reasonably priced accomodation for Saturday night once I have a better idea of numbers. So drop in to the shop or give them (or me) a call to confirm!
blue mao mao arch (photo by ian skipworth)
See you down below soon ….
Rescue Divers to Divemasters
02 years ago
This week i have been team teaching a PADI Rescue Diver course with Anna. And on the course was my friend lindsay – as well as a friend of my old flatmates friend; who i now count to be my friend.
Long story short – Saturday was their final classroom session and then exam before we headed off to the olympic pool for the final set of scenarios. at any one time, i was working with two student divers and anna was working with two and then we would mix them up and get the buddy teams to change as well.
yesterday morning we met at the dive shop at 8.30 to get the cars packed up to head up to matheson bay for the open water scenarios.
there are four scenarios to be completed and in the car on the drive up there, i reviewed the performance requirements and anna helped me to structure the dive. we had icaro as a divemaster and pete came along to give us a hand. the first dive, we ran through self and team rescue culminating with anna cutting her leg and icaro panicking at the surface (all planned off course) and both of them needing to be towed in.
unfortunately one of our new rescue divers didnt quite weight herself properly and decided she’d be right even though she was a little light. she had a really hard dive and even though i kept signalling to her to see if she was alright – and she was giving me the ok back – she wasnt really okay. we surfaced and she was very ill. two of the student divers took care of annas (fake) cut leg whilst one of them took care of icaro’s (fake) exhaustion and the other diver and i hung on to the float and i slowly kicked us across the bay and back into shore. she was starting to feel a little better but due to the chop making her feel queasier, she couldnt lie on her back and kick so it was a pretty slow trip.
the day went really well. icaro and pete went off for icaros (fake) guiding certified divers while anna and i debriefed the student divers. icaro lost pete so we sent them off to manage the scene, find and surface the diver and provide first aid and CPR til EMS arrived and the whole group did great! then it was back to the shop for a couple of beers and a couple of sausages on the BBQ.
i am very very happy to add that globaldive has two new divemaster trainees out of this course – welcome on board anna and lindsay!
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