And the adventure starts
Adalberto (Gary)
I’m originally from Tenerife and after a long while just enjoying snorkelling
at last after several years looking forward to learning to dive. I started my
Open Water Diver but it took nearly two months to finish with another company,
I finally finished it on Saturday woohoo I am an Open Water diver at last!!
So finally I was able
to begin my PADI Divemaster internship on Monday morning with Dive and Sea Tenerife. The island was on an Orange
weather Alert which meant I could have the whole day off as I am also a part
time teacher in the north of the island.
When I got to the shop
I met Pete, Melissa and Alice (Kim) and also another new intern from France
Emelyne that later on was renamed Brian (the snail out of Magic roundabout) and
I also got a new name Gary (this is the snail out of sponge bob!!,) apparently
this is a tradition for all new interns. I have to say its better than some of the
others that I have heard!
On our first day we received
information about the internship and how to do daily duties. As well as running
through a pool skill session with Alice
first thing in the morning, apparently I have many more of these to look
forward to…..
Unfortunately the orange
alert finished, so on Tuesday morning I had to go and teach, but headed off
down south to Dive and See Tenerife to go shopping to get wetsuits for Brian and
I as well as some other things we need for the internship. Its like a divers heaven in there I could
have spent a fortune.
Apparently this is
another tradition taking interns over to ProSub so that they can try on their
suits…… Melissa and her friend Ann found this really funny, as Brian and I were
really over heating trying on different wetsuits!! Luckily after the second suit I had found the
suit for me. Phew!
Then the real
adventure began as we went out on the boat for our dives. Brian and I were
starting our PADI Advanced Open Water Course and on this day we completed our
Deep and Boat dives.. Already I am well on my way to completing the Advanced
course.. thankfully its not going to take two months here.
Still so much to learn
we are learning on our dives as well as learning how everything is done here at
Dive and Sea Tenerife. Part of the
learning seems to be making lot of mistakes but I am sure its going to click
soon!
I had three great
dives, my first dive was at Poco Naufragio with Pete, Emelyne, and Ann, this
was my Deep Adventure dive, and on the dive we even saw a Common Ray, this dive
site is so special, I couldn’t wait to go again and luckily I was able to go
later in the week, with Dan on his Advanced Open Water Course. Our second and third dives of the day were at
Yellow Mountain, Alien Rock, there are several sites here so I am told and I am
definitely looking forward to exploring the other sites, but on this occasion we
did two deep dives to Alien Rock, there was so much to think about and see that
I am sure I would get lost if I was asked to navigate this site!!!
Another very early
start and out we went for 2 boat dives with customers Ann and Dan and made a
couple of nice dives. It was great to be
able to work on my buoyancy this was my third advanced dive… two more to go and
I will be an Advanced Diver. The second
dive to the swim through, another site within the bay was wonderful I really
enjoyed this dive
On Friday shore dive
to El Puertito, because of the storm we had at the beginning of the week the
conditions were not ideal there were strong waves so getting into the sea and
out was quite difficult specially for Dan, but when we were inside, except for
the low visibility it was a nice dive in which I first meet the lovely turtle
that hugged us.
Finally a nice bright
sunny day and the sea has calmed so I was very excited about more dives. Two boat dives this was Dan’s Deep and Boat
dive of his advanced course, it was good for Brian and I to be able to observe
the course.
On the first dive to
Poco Naufragio, we met a ray who was
going around us like a dog and then three morays, two black and one fangtooth.
Amazing. Our Second dive after dropping
Melissa back at the Marina was to Yellow Mountain
On Sunday we prepared
for a shore dive to Abades, where we did 2 dives with Melissa, Alice, Emelyne,
Jake (Doing Discover Scuba diving), Dan (Doing his Advanced course) and Jan(Instructor),
I did really enjoy both dives as in the first one was buddy with Dan and
helping him and seeing how a Discover Scuba diving usually manage and on the
second dive my buddy was Jan and it was really interesting to see the big
difference that experience give on this underwater world.
The week was really
long, think have never being so physical and mental tired in my whole life and
had seeing that after the internship I will be much fitter and also will learn
quite a lot of things. And really looking forward to next week more learning
and hopefully lots more dives
And I think this is it
for now,
Take care and good
luck,
Adal (Gary)
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