Urchin kill's, DSD's and I found out im a Master craftsman!

Monday I ate food and then came into work at 7 AM. We set up kit and went to Yellow Mountain and I may have been on boat cover.
Either way the boat is still safe and Hannah still can’t do boat cover very well :)

Tuesday was a complete turn around, it was probably comparable to  what everyone thought of E=MC^2 after Einstein thought of it. I don’t want to toot my own horn but my performance was easily at the top, and even though some interns(I don’t want to name names…Hannah) might think that this is all just a game, it definitely is not.

I actually did boat cover on Tuesday though, it’s all coming back to me. I was fantastic though,its really not a surprise though.
Wednesday I got to go to El Puertito with Melissa and Will and 3 customers doing DSD's. We saw the baby turtle and that also put me at 59 dives, which meant that I was going to beat Hannah to becoming a Divemaster.

Thursday I had the day off and really didn't do all that much except lay on the couch and sleep, then that night I watched a movie called Triangle which was about the creepiest movie I have ever seen and it made it much more difficult to sleep because my mind wouldn't shut off.
Then Friday we went to El Puertito again for my 60th dive. I was immensely tired that day but I did become a PADI Divemaster and I beat Hannah to it by at least 3 days. So it was completely worth it.
We went to El Delphin Saturday and Sunday which was an awesome dive site, and starfish bay was full of sea urchins.

So Saturday Theiss and I got slightly carried away while carrying out a sea urchin genocide. They were taken completely by surprise, the ambush was perfect. We came at them from above with knives in our hands and no remorse in our hearts. We then got told to stop and the cry of joy from the remaining sea urchins was deafening.  I’ve been having hearing issues ever since.

Sunday I also got to start on crafting a new drying rack for the BCD’s and wetsuits. It will easily be the best rack up there. Able to hold an elephant I would wager, probably capable of withstanding hurricane force winds and so stable that it could withstand an earthquake of 9.0 or greater on the Richter scale. I can’t speak highly enough of my craftsmanship.

That was the cherry on the top of my week. Done.

Eric

PADI Open Water diver and Emergency First Response courses and time for a beer!

Last Sunday was my first time assisting customers in a course. We had a couple coming to do their PADI Open Water course and I gave Melissa and Patrick a hand on the couple’s first skills session in the pool.

It is a new experience helping new nervous divers out as opposed to just looking after myself!
I also did my EFR (Emergency First Response) exam that day and didn’t too well! I put it down to a couple of old questions, my knowledge was just up to date haha.
On my third attempt I eventually passed.

This has been the first week where we have been busy with customers every day since I have been here so I have got marginally better at equipment preparation. On Monday we forgot to give a customer who’d left for a boat dive her hood so I jokingly offered to jog down to the marina to give it to her...... never doing that again, next minute I was jogging there! It’s all about customer service :)
Melissa, Patrick and I took the couple doing their open water course to El Puertito but unfortunately one of them really wasn’t comfortable in the water and so I swam back with her and she was a lot happier chatting on the shore instead. Diving isn’t for everyone.

On Tuesday I did boat duty for the first time, which means minding the boat and waiting to help people up with their kit. I also went through the Pre-dive Safety Check with the customers.
Bringing the anchor up was heavy stuff even with Alice swimming up with it!
In the afternoon we went to the Hotel Pool .
On Wednesday we prepared a lot of kit for 13 of us to go to Abades. There were 3 girls doing their Discover Scuba Diving certification and I was buddied in the water with one of them.
Swapping tanks for the second dive was quite a mission, carrying tanks across the beach was super heavy and tiring.
Thursday we went off to El Puertito again and this time I got to dive which meant seeing the turtles! They are so sweet, they swam right up to us and came to visit us several times on the dive and we were able to stroke them.
Friday was Pete’s Birthday and Eric, Patrick and I got him a stripey fish that we thought had died until it luckily finally reappeared.
We did a drift dive that day although there was not much of a drift. The customers were practising using SMBs (surface marker buoy) which is like flying kites underwater, the idea is that you drift along with it but on this occasion we were towing them along.

We practised making the 2 knots we need for our PADI Divemaster and then managed to do them with thick gloves on and blindfolded.

Saturday I had a day off and so had nice day at El Medano and went for a drink with Patrick and Angela.
What a busy week!

Hannah