It was impossible to take Jake seriously for the duration of the week as he failed to complete a challenge and had to wear Spongebob shorts to work every day as a punishment.
The new interns also arrived and it was time to introduce them to one of the centres favoured dive sites Yellow Mountain. The “fresh meat” were all paired up with the now “old” interns and turned out to be better than we all expected especially considering some of their dive counts. At the end of the day we all went for a drink with the new interns and attempted to get Foster to smile.
Pete and Nicola came with us on another dive, this time to El Puertito. There were two turtles who were both very over friendly. Meanwhile the new interns caught up on their Emergency First Response courses and sat their exams none of which came close to Will’s 100%.
We also had an opportunity to finish any reviews that we still had to submit in order for us to crack on with our theory exams for our next qualification.
Time for all of the intern to either set or try and improve upon their times for the 400m swim and the 800m snorkel. During these swims it became very evident that swimming in a straight line is far harder than it looks.
On Thursday we met with Jackie and Phil from Teide divers at the pool and practised our skills all day. Pete seemed to enjoy the skills and DSD training more than any of the interns by floating upside down and generally being a complete pain, this was to show the extremes of how challenging a Discover Scuba student can be.
Jake had a day off on Friday so went with Will’s friends to El Medano which is just along the course from the dive centre. As they got to watch all of the surfers and the amazing kite surfers perform flips and tricks.
At the start of the internship Pete said that we would all have bad days, this was Will’s bad day!
After taking an eternity to kit up two DSDs, almost sending a new diver in without his fins or tank strap done up and giving the wrong BCD to someone that required one three sizes smaller it was obvious that he just should not have left his bed that day.
The other interns got to dive Yellow Mountain twice and then moved on to work on their Rescue Diver practical in the afternoon. This was when Alex surprisingly found out that she cannot descend and start breathing without a regulator in her mouth.
Next day we went to Gijarro to complete the last stage of some of the interns and Chrissy’s Rescue Diver qualification.
Will didn’t seem as if he needed rescued at all as he was quite happy hand feeding Sharpnose Pufferfish Black Sea Urchins.
After mastering the tows and removal of an unresponsive diver it was time for lunch.
In the afternoon we all got a chance to go to the pool and practice our 20 skills needed for the Divemaster exam.
Jake and Will seemed to find the experience far more amusing when trying to perform all 20 skills the third time
More from us later.
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