On our first
day of the week we had a DSD (Discover Scuba Diving) customer, Nicola who was
surprisingly calm and picked up the skills very quickly.The pool session was conducted by Aaron
which allowed him to tick the last box in his PADI DSD leader qualification.
We then
went off to the ocean with Pete (Nicola’s husband) and the first dive to Yellow Mountain. Nicola had a few problems equalizing but soon overcame these and started to relax. We then headed off towards Alien Rock
where Nicola managed far better and really enjoyed herself.
The next day was spent doing our EFR course which we were not very good with the exams and needed some additional work on the theory. After resitting the exam all of
the interns passed this time with Will by far the star pupil of the day with
100% in all three of the EFR exams (Bit too obvious who is writing this section
of the blog?... thought so).
On Wednesday we had a two dives the most notable of which we
noticed a Fangtooth Moray and an Octopus fighting over a spot within a rock.
Pete (the customer) also joined us on these two dives and seemed to enjoy
himself once again. In the afternoon we
started trying to come up with our interesting games for the Bubble maker
course, we found it a lot harder than we thought it was going to be, the only
inspirational idea that was made was a game named “Crappy Tappy” which by its
name I am sure you can guess that it was appalling.
It was Dive AWARE day and we headed to El Puertito with
several bags to perform an underwater litter pick, some of the items that were
found ranged from a glass, a full size table cloth, champagne bottles, huge
water containers and even plenty of anchors without a chain which unfortunately
would not fit in our bag. While picking up litter we did encounter the Turtles
which occupy the site and got a pretty close look at them. Will was also
certain that he had found something very rare or in hiding…but it turned it
that it was a bit of coral which “looked as if it had eyes!”.
The sea had turned a bit choppy due to the high winds that we had on Friday, so much so that one of the
interns had to stay on the boat for the second dive and hug the floor after an
interesting dive to Poco Naufragio. In
the afternoon we found out how much harder the 800m snorkel is than it sounds
and Pete heard a barrage of excuses as to why the times were so slow!
Jake managed to lose his SMB at the dive site nicknamed
“Arise” because its Spanish name is too hard to spell for anyone who natively
speaks English. This is perfect as it sets up a search and recovery dive of
which we have been practicing (when Aaron doesn’t forget the lift bag and all
of the other essential materials needed).
It was Jake and Will’s turn to lead dives on their own with
no influence from Pete, Melissa or Alice. Abades was picked as the dive site
because of how shallow it is which was perfect for a first dive lead as if
anything happened an ascent would always be safe. Jake lead the first dive and
it was fair to say that it was a right work out, Lewis Hamilton would have been
jealous at the speed he navigated the dive site. After the dive Jake was
slightly gutted that we had not managed to spot anything big such as an Octopus
or a Moray.
Will’s dive however was borderline perfect and the site was awash
with interesting fish and finds (Still too obvious who is writing the blog?).
We managed to spot two Octopuses on the second dive, one of which was a rare
white spotted one.
The most amusing part of the dive had to be the ascent, Will
believed that we were reasonably close to shore, however we were probably
closer to Dubai than the coast of Tenerife. This resulted in the world’s
longest surface swim and Jamie almost drowning as her legs had given out,
luckily the boys were on hand to tow her out.
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