This was my 7th week as an intern at Dive and Sea Tenerife.
One more week to go and then I will be jetting off back home on to my next adventure!
This week has been busy busy, I have become a PADI Divemaster, finally.
I am so pleased that I have achieved what I came here to do!
Melissa and I went with Matt to Abades we had two great dives, on the first dive we had really poor visability and so were tempted to call off the second dive, but then we were really happy that we did brave the second dive as we saw so many things on the second dive.
I am really proud to annouce that I spoteed a Fangtooth Moray eel and according to Melissa this is the first time that she has ever seen or heard of one being at Abades.
We also saw an Octopus and an amazing cuttle fish who looked like he wanted to fight with us his tentacles were wild! Matt absolutley loves cuttlefish so he was in his element, at the moment he is hard pressed to decide which site is his favourite and as soon as we came out of the dive matt was raring to get back in.
I am sure Melissa won't object to another visit back out to Abades.
While we were out having a great time diving, the interns were being inducted by Pete and Alice, so when we came back it was really great to be able to meet all the new people, Jake, Will, Geoff, Jamie, and Thomas. Its great for me to have some more young people to hang out with, and even better when i found out that some of the new interns are even staying on the same complex as I am!
After work we went for a nice welcome to Dive and Sea Tenerife drink, always fun to get to see people relaxing.
Thomas, Matt, Jamie Alice, Cam and I went to Starfish bay and to the Moon Pools. On the first dive Alice led us around the bay showing all of the fireworms and other invertabres. Then we got up onto the boat and set off for the moon pools. This dive was particularly amazing because we found three brilliant cuttle fish, another high on Matts diving exploits!
So amazingly this week I also started my Discover Scuba Diver leader internship, this is great news for me as I am really looking forward to encouraging some of my friends to start diving back home, and who better to help them out!!
I taught my first DSD pool session this week . Until I had to organise the whole morning of the Discover Scuba Diving Experience I hadn't realised how stressed I would be about getting everything just right.
The night before I spent the evening with Jamie and Jake who were going to be my assistants the next day in the pool, with Pete keeping a watchful eye out for us of course!
But in the end everything went really well and my Discover Scuba diver had a fantastic time. It went very well and we went out to Yellow Mountain to take the DSD’s on their first open water dive. A big thanks to Jamie and Jake for all thir help and assistance.
Thursday we took the group into the pool to see their skills. It was reassuring to see that their skills were like mine seven weeks ago..... Rusty! Then we went down to the marina with all of the interns for their SMB Specialty dives. They all were trying to get the hang of it but on their second dive was a lot better.
Lucky me I got a couple of days off to relax and see some of Tenerife, but then back to work again with Jake on Sunday to Alien Rock, so that they could start their mapping dives. I was leading the dives, and was pleased to be able top navigate my way around Alien Rock.
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