The Much Needed Arrival of The ‘All-Stars’!

The All-Star team consisting of Todd, Toss, Sweeney, or what ever name Melissa can think of! Jess or as her T-shirt wanted to call her, Jeff! And George, better known as Geoffrey!

We began our course by getting a 3 hour induction and presentation courtesy of Pete learning the ins and outs of the of the business and some of Pete and Melissa’s rules and regulations that if broken by our stupidity will result in Beer Fines! Such as ‘Calling a mask, goggles and Fins, Flippers!’ 

We also learnt what will be expected of us to get the most out of the course and how to become the best Divemasters possible! (Just do as Pete Says!). In the Afternoon Jess and Todd Surprised themselves by doing well on their Open Water exams; I would hope so we have already passed them! 

Whilst Jeffery went to the toyshop of diving to seek out his new equipment for the courses he has enrolled on going for zero to hero. (Having never dived to Dive Master!)

We went to the Abades dive site, great to get back in the water. Jeffery began his first dive which he was very excited for. The three of us doing our first shore dive which was an experience. Struggling with his buoyancy, as we all do on our first dives, Jeffery managed to nearly knock Melissa out by kicking her in head more than once…! She wasn’t best pleased as you can imagine. 

We had two very enjoyable dives seeing an Octopus, a Fang tooth moray, Black Moray, Cleaner shrimp, Cuttle fish and all your usual suspects. 
Hayley, another intern, did a great job of leading our second dive. Todd, Geoffrey and Jess were left to wash 14 sets of kit, supervised and advised by Gareth, a returning intern who is about to embark on his PADI Instructors course.

After learning a few skills in the pool Geoffrey managed to get his dive experience growing by going on another dive at Abades with Alice, Jake, Melissa  and a few customers. 

Geoffrey managed to control his buoyancy better on this dive without injuring any more divers much to their relief. Richard and Rhys really enjoyed their dive even though the vis was bad. Jess and Todd got a much needed day off.

Jess and Todd were taken through their skill set in the pool by Alice, we were pleasantly surprised by how much we managed to remember. The rest of the day was spent with us all studying, tiding the shop and the three of us sat down to watch the Open Water DVD, popcorn in hand .. not!

Jeffery got a well earned day off to enjoy the lovely weather, Jess and Todd went diving at Abades. Their task being to map the dive site and to monitor their dive times. Were two nice dives, with a minor swell which made it fun. Managed to wash the kit properly this time!

Jeffery aced his Open Water exam getting 100%, well done to Geoffrey! Getting ever closer to completing his first course also learning that there are many other uses to dive knives such as cutting cake! 

Roll on next week.