This week consisted on continuing with our PADI Assistant Instructor and much more tea drinking.
The start of another Friday in paradise, which began at a refreshing 7.15am. First on the agenda was to assemble and pack the kit so Bungle, I and Melissa could head off to Las Eras for some more fantastic diving.
Las Eras is officially one of my favourite dive sites in Tenerife and we managed to see a whole host of aquatic life including Fangtooth Moray Eel, Black Moray Ell, Common Ray, Canarian lobster and Octopus.
On the way back from Las Eras we decided it was a good idea to stop for a quick donut to reward our efforts this morning. Mmm Donut’s.
Once refuelled and recharged we headed to the marina to wash the kit where we met Tiede Divers, who were completing the PADI Rescue Course for Lauren and Kepa.
When we returned to the shop we were met by Bungle’s friends from the U.K Anna and Pete on holiday. After a spot of lunch it was time for some more ‘exciting’ presentations from Pete for our PADI AI course followed by mock exams and preparing our presentation for tomorrow.
The weekend and time for some more diving, or boat duty in my case. At the shop for 7.15 to prepare for Anna and Pete’s PADI Discover Scuba Diving. Both of them where fantastic and could not wait to try some diving in the sea. So we headed off to the marina to board the boat and headed off to Yellow Mountain where Pete, Bungle, Anna and other Pete went off to see the underwater world leaving me to admire the above-water scenery.
Anna and Pete both thoroughly enjoyed their first taste of diving and left wanting to see more. After bit of lunch, we met up with Tiede Divers once again to continue our Assistant Instructor course’s, we also had the nerve racking pleasure of completing our first Knowledge Development Presentations in which my fantastic presentation included one piece of false information, scoring me a big fat 1 out of 5. The day concluded with some more slide shows and tea drinking.
Sunday ‘the day of rest’ or not, who needs days off when you have the best job in the world??
Yet another 7.15 start, meeting Tiede Divers bright and early so we could perform our Confined Water Presentations. I managed to score a 5/5 for my brief of the skill and only a 4.2/5 for performing the skill due to being a plonker and forgetting my slates on the side of the pool. Durhhh. We left the pool relatively happy with our efforts and had to complete the de-brief section of the Confined Water Skill in which I again managed to score a good 5/5. All in all, a good morning and a few more boxes ticked to account towards our Assistant Instructor Certification. After some much needed lunch on our so called ‘day off’ we watched a few more slide shows and received our new Presentation topics for our next assessed presentation. A nice early finish around 3pm.
On to Monday, I can’t really remember a whole lot from Monday so here’s my best guess. Today following yet another lovely start at 7.15 Bungle, Melissa, I, other Pete and Anna headed off to El Puertito to try and find the Turtles. Two Fantastic dives and managed to find the turtles on both occasions, on the first of the two dives Mr Turtle loved us so much that he followed us all the way into shore when we were finishing our dive.
On the second dive we managed to spot three different Turtles including a tiny turt who quickly swam away from the scary divers. As always upon surfacing from the dives, lots of smiling faces form seeing the Turtles.
We headed back to the marina and washed all of the kit down where Melissa was very restraint and didn’t even spray either myself or Bungle with the hose. Must have been feeling unwell. A quite afternoon followed in which we caught up with paper work and generally chilled out, the day concluded with a de-brief and a delicious Big Al’s Mixed Grill. I have never enjoyed a plate of food so much as when I am eating the life changing meal that is a Big Al’s Mixed Grill.
Tuesday turned out to be a fantastic day for me and Bungle. Like any other day we started at 7.15 where we met up with Tiede Divers for some more Assistant Instructor ‘stuff’. The day began with briefing our second Confined Water Skill, which I thought I completely ‘fluffed up’ however I would later find out I actually passed with a reasonable score. Then it was off to the pool to complete the skill.
After a brief cup of tea it was off to the marina to complete our Open Water Skill’s. My skills went well and I had even more enjoyment making Phil’s skill/s nearly impossible under the hilarious instruction of Pete.
Upon returning to the shop after an ‘eventful’ Open Water session we proceeded to de-brief both our confined and open water skills. Yet another cup of hot beverage, to carry us through the next part of our day, which was performing our second knowledge development presentation which I managed to score 4.7/5. Good but not 5/5. Shortly after Tiede divers left us to head back up north. Bungle and I being the fantastic students we are decided to attempt the exam, in which I passed.
That was it.............. ASSISTANT INSTRUCTOR/S....... WOOOO...... with great power comes great responsibility.
What a fantastic way to end the day, we celebrated with a spot of lovely dinner and some beverages round Pete and Melissa’s.
If you thought Tuesday was good I think Wednesday was the best day of my life.
The day was like any other day, eating breakfast, having a shower and in the shop for 7.30. First on the agenda was a Project Aware Debris Dive which was a good experience cleaning the Pequeno Valle dive site, collecting various debris off the bottom.
However during our dive we were greeted by a pod of around 4 DOLPHINS ahhhh.
Dolphins are sweeeeett. We decided that we should probably do some more diving opposed to watching the Dolphins and headed over to starfish bay where we set about killing every urchin in sight.
It’s not mindless violence, basicly urchins kill fish we like so we kill urchins, simpleess. Although during our cull, one urchin managed to leave two of its spines in my hand, not best pleased. When we returned to the shop to finish the best morning ever in the only way we know.... a breakfast at the Aberdeen. The day concluded with some more reading and cleaning. Such a fantastic day.
Onto today and yet another day closer to going back to the U.K. After the excitement of the past two days, today was a relatively calm day. An early start so Bungle and I could get in the pool and film some more videos for our fantastic skill video.
After a semi-successful morning, filming us messing around in a pool we headed back to the shop for a cup of tea and some blog writing. After completing a Su doku on Melissa’a behalf and cleaning the cars a spot of lunch was in order. More blog writing followed lunch as well as a trip to pro sub to see Dave (Ian). On route to Pro Sub we picked up Bungle and I’s fantastic new Assistant Instructor polo shirts ... never has so much pride been taken in an item of clothing. On return to the shop it was time for a photo shoot in our new shirts followed by some more tea.
All in all a brilliant week, found out Dolphins are my new best friend, passed Assistant Instructor Course and picked up the shirt with Assistant Instructor written on. Fantastic.
Over 7 weeks have passed since my first blog and only 5 days remain of my internship.
It’s gone so quickly and I wish I could stay here longer, well considering Pete now has a ‘Tea bell’ for whenever he needs tea leaving maybe a good idea.
Adios for another few days.
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