My Internship and new Parrot !

So I started off my internship in Tenerife with a taxi ride to a random roundabout where the driver told me to get out and walk the rest of the way!
Luckily Melissa was kind enough to come retrieve me.

First day on the job I met Alice, Pete, and Hannah right away and we were put to work immediately. Alice showed us how to set up all the kits and perform all the jobs that are done on a daily basis. There was a lot to take in but its slowly sinking in.
The little things get you though, like putting the dust caps back on right after you take the regulators off, it’s easy to do but it’s also easy to forget. I think that first day we also got into the little pool which is basically filled completely with ice and did a skills session which Hannah and I did fabulously on!

Tuesday Stiven slept in but Patrick helped out with kit set up and we got to go to Abades for a navigation dive and a fish I.D. dive. The navigation dive went well, we managed to navigate in a straight line down and back, a square, and a triangle underwater.

The fish I.D. dive was more fun than the navigation dive because we actually saw fish, though my drawings of them were atrocious I did manage to figure out which fish I had drawn later on. After the dives we went to the marina and learned how to wash all the kits. Then we headed back to base and had lunch. That afternoon we went to the hotel pool for the try dive which is fun because we get to meet a lot of different people.

Wednesday we went to Tabaiba where it was misting slightly and the water was pretty cold, but the deep dive and the wreck dive were awesome. First thing you see is a bunch of garden eels which are much cooler in real life than in pictures. The wreck dive was my favorite though because I was just kind of swimming along and I looked up and there was a ship right in front of me. It sits on a bit of a decline so its listing to one side and when you swim over the side onto the deck it can be a little disorientating, but it was very cool.

Stiven made it to these two dives and in between them we got the privilege of walking back and forth from the Jumpy multiple times for a candy bar, inserts, allen keys, and new tanks. All of which really should’ve only taken one trip! I guess w will learn!
Thursday was our first boat dive I thought it was fun and Yellow Mountain was one of the best so far, there were tons of fish to see. Within the first few minutes of being at the bottom we got to watch Alice kill a couple of sea urchins and then we got to watch Hannah ineffectively poke at one with her knife. I didn’t get to try because I didn’t have a knife.
The second dive was our first mapping dive Hannah took spot depths while I took bearing measurements and we went through the swim through which was neat. We also saw a scorpion fish.

The rest of the week we worked on skills and were in the pool.
This week was challenging but enjoyable.

Eric

PADI Divemaster Intern ~ Hannah

Hi, I am Hannah and I´ve come to Dive and Sea to do my Divemaster internship.

I did my open water certification 3 years ago in Malta and loved it so when I saw an advert for this internship I jumped to it and here I am hoping to become a Divemaster!

I have been given the delightful nickname of Montana, I’ll leave you to guess why. I’ve been here a week now. It’s been a full on, fun-filled one. At the start of the week we did a scuba tune up in the pool which bought back a few memories from my open water course and some skills I worryingly didn’t remember at all!

It was pretty cold and as we were leaving the pool I managed to fall over with my tank on my back whilst picking up my weight belt so I was like a turtle on its back – smooth.
In the afternoon Eric and I did a presentation about ourselves as well as Alice and Pete to get to know each other.
Day two was our first shore dive and first venture into the sea on Tenerife. I have to say I didn’t see much due to my new mask steaming up which wasn’t ideal on a fish identification dive. We also did a navigation dive, navigating a straight line, square and triangle, we practiced on land which I think was quite comical for the two onlookers. Underwater it took us two attempts to navigate the triangle as I think I couldn’t do the maths or something. That afternoon we headed to a hotel pool;s to offer a free scuba try with Alice.

I was quite surprised not everyone leapt out of their sun beds but maybe that’s just me. One guy seemed really chuffed with the experience and the children who gave it a go seemed to enjoy it.

There’s been lots to do and learn, sorting kit, preparing dives and daily jobs. I have learnt “yeh it was cool” is not a sufficient debrief at the end of the day. We did our Adventure dive readings through the week so we were clued up for the dive the next day.
On Wednesday we went to a deep dive and wreck dive. On the drive there we listened to a dance anthem CD that I am sure I am going to be pretty familiar with by the end! Carrying tanks to and from the car is heavy stuff but I am sure ill get stronger. I really enjoyed both those dives and I recognised more fish. Later on Pete showed us how to map a dive.
Thursday was our first boat dive. It was good fun and I was relieved I didn’t get seasick as we bounced along the water. There were lots of trumpet fish and I saw my first cuttle fish (name dropping). I tried killing an urchin as they take over the area but I was useless at it, it moved faster than me which was impressive!
We attempted to map a dive, Patrick let me borrow his dive computer so I took spot depths and Eric took bearings however when back in the shop and trying to put them together it was very confusing.

It’s going to take a bit of practice but we managed to produce a map by the end. We did our 400m timed swim which I was a little nervous for but I did it in 9 mins 11 secs which is fine, I just thought I was swimming in slow motion compared to super quick Eric.

We have practiced skills in the pool a couple of times, I have made several pretty silly mistakes but there is time for improvement! I demonstrated how not to do a skill pretty well on several of them.
We have learnt how to give a diving brief, on my first attempt I classically got the giggles and struggled through it but second time around I managed to keep a straight face.
After shop shuts I have been doing my readings and trying to get early nights for those early starts! I have been swimming in the pool a couple of times and it is so nice to swim in an empty pool!

On Thursday we completed our PADI Advance Open Water Diver certification! Yay and straight onto reading the Rescue diver manual – there ain´t no rest for the wicked!
We have watched dated American PADI dvds which we just about paid attention to through out. There is loads to remember, lots of checklists and I still regularly go around in circles having forgot this and that but at least I know which keys open each of the 6 doors to put away gear now!
The weather has been pretty cloudy all week, today is the first day the sun has been properly out and I am now embarrassingly very burnt.
I can identify more fish now and a fish is no longer just a fish, it’s got a name.

Hannah

Sting Rays everywhere :)

This week Gary Stiven and I have all made lots of progress on our PADI Divemaster course. We had a pool skills session with Pete who marked us. This showed us we still have some way to go in some skills but in others we managed to score some top marks, which was encouraging.  We also did the 800-metre snorkel and 100 metre diver tow. We did these tests in the Marina and in the afternoon I watched Stiven doing his PADI Rescue confined water stage. It was interesting to see someone else being instructed and was a useful refresher for Gary and I. It was a long day but it was worth it.

This week I have also done 2 dives where I was trained in the Surface Marker Buoy which I enjoyed doing.

We dived at the sub site with customers Fergus, Aidan and Dan. We were really lucky to see 4 large Rays sleeping on the floor of a small ravine. Later in the dive we saw another 2 Rays, which was fantastic .The second of those looked very large. The sleeping rays we were able to get really close to.  They eventually moved and were so powerful and graceful to watch. It was definitely a high for me.

We also dived at the Moon Pools where we saw lots of fish. It was a brilliant day and the light in the pools was amazing. You approach these pools through a series of swim throughs. I did my Fish identification dive at the site and recorded 36 different species. There were still others that I did not get a chance to record but it shows how much life there is in these waters.

At Yellow Mountain we dived with Dan, Steve, Aidan and Fergus .We saw a small Common ray which had teamed up with a small Sting ray. They were happily following one another around and did not seem at all bothered by our presence. They seemed to be playing a game of tag, which was funny to watch.

The weather this week has been 25 degrees plus. The sea temperature is still 21 degrees and the sea has been the calmest that I have seen it since I have been here.

On Saturday Gary, Stiven Melissa and I were all off for the day. Gary drove us round the north of the Island and we ended up at Teide just before sunset. The light really seemed to bring the colour out of the rocks and we all had a great day. It was nice to see parts of the Island that I have not been to before.

“ This is a fantastic time of the year to come diving here so what are you waiting for. “

Patrick    

On to my PADI Advanced course

El siguiente lunes lo tuvimos libre, mis dos compañeros (Gary y Patrick) y yo. ¡Que falta me hacía, estaba derrotado, pero valía la pena!

El martes, después de limpiar el centro, almacenes, … Nos fuimos a la marina Patrick y yo a hacer los 800m,  (Prueba Divemaster) y lo conseguimos hacer, aunque no con buenos tiempos.

El miércoles tocó estudiar, nos quedamos Gary y yo en el Centro y Melissa nos explicó los ejercicios con las tablas de buceo ya que por la tarde tenía mi exámen de Open Water Diver, el cual aprobé, por cierto con casi pleno!!!!

El jueves tras la revisión del par de preguntas incorrectas, ya era oficialmente Open Water Diver, así que a por el Advanced y fue todo el día estudiando. Sólo paré cuando bajamos Gary y yo a la piscina a nadar los 400m (Otra prueba del divemaster)

Por la noche nos fuimos a cenar: Gary, Patrick, Melissa, Pete y yo, a celebrar el cumpleaños de Gary, una noche muy divertida.

El viernes y el sábado también tocó estudiar, por lo que casi tenía la teoría del Advanced acabada.
El sábado volvimos a la Marina (puerto) a entrenar las pruebas de 800m y la de arrastre 100m (Otra prueba del Divemaster)

El domingo por la mañana fuimos a Abades ….

PADI Specialities leading to my PADI Master Scuba Diver

I was off this week on Monday and took the opportunity to complete my Navigation and Boat diver manuals. I was also lucky to be off on Friday and went to Las Galletas with Melissa for the afternoon. We watched the surfers and had lunch overlooking the marina.

This week Gary, Stiven and I did our practical for the Emergency First Response, which we all thoroughly enjoyed. The practical assessment in the shop even had members of the public who were passing stop and enter the shop to see what was going on. Sadly we did not manage to get Resu Annie to breathe again despite our best efforts.

We have been busy with lots of customers this week that have mainly been from the UK. We have also had a customer from Russia. One of the UK customers was Fiona who is an advanced diver but who had not dived for 13 years. Fiona really enjoyed re discovering the magic of the underwater world. She particularly enjoyed the dive at El Peurtito where the turtles were fantastic.

This week we have also dived at Poco Naufragio and Yellow Mountain. We have seen Rays, Parrot fish, Ornate Wrasse and Trumpet fish.

We have also done a Pool skills session with Alice. I had a bit of a nightmare with the flooded mask skill on the second go and ended up with a nose full of pool water. It is an area that I still need to work on. Most of the other skills are coming along but need some work to get the top marks.

On Sunday we dived at El Puertito with Dan, Aidan and Fergus in the afternoon.  It was very hot and the water was so calm and still. The visibility was brillant and the Turtles came to see us and kept coming back. One of the young ones was particularly curious. This is an amazing site which I love going to.

The weather here has been fantastic and the sea temperature is still 21 degrees.

“What are you waiting for come and see some of these amazing dive sites for yourself you will not be disappointed”.

Patrick

New Divemaster intern and lots of PADI Courses

New times
This week was a nearly complete week of diving, yeeesss!! 
After a few weeks with just a couple of days or none, this week not diving on Monday and Tuesday with my teaching duties and then the rest of the week diving 

On Wendsday to begin the day Patrick, Alice and me went to the pool to do Patrick Scuba Tune Up and later Peter a London Instructor, Pete, Alice, Patrick and me went for a couple of dives to Yellow Mountain, nice and quiet dives where we could see trumpet fish, parrot fish, white breams,… as usual, as said nice and quiet.

On Thursday was my first time driving the jumpy to Abades for a couple of shore dives with Melissa and Frankie that stayed on the beach, Alice leading, Patrick, me and Cat that is English woman doing her Open Water Referals to finish her Open Water Diver (OWD), she already had done the theory and confined dives in England and came to finish her OWD. There was much visibility and so we could see some arrow crabs, a common octopus and usual fish on her OWD.

On the afternoon Patrick and me could see Alice with Derek Scuba Tune Up and the rest of the day just quiet day doing the daily jobs and at the finishing of the day Pete, Patrick, Melissa, Alice and Cat went for a Beer to Celebrate Cat’s OWD.

On Friday we had a couple of boat dives on Yellow Mountain to finish Cat’s OWD, doing her OWR3 and 4. The visibility was much better than the day before and we all had a nice dive enjoying to see octopus, trumpetfish, parrotfish, blue-fin Damselfish, ornate wrasse, golden sponges and loads of other fish.

On Saturday we began the day in the pool with Alison Scuba Diver and later Pete, Cat, Alice, Patrick and me went for a couple of nice dives on Yellow Mountain, in the first dive Pete lead the dive to Alien Rock and we where lucky to see loads of Barracuda near the surface, some octopus, close to the Garden Eel and some other fishes, I couldn’t completely enjoy that dive as my mask was terrible leaking more than half of the dive. The second Alice lead the dive and was Patrick Boat dive for his Advanced Diver and could see some arrow crabs, a black moray eel and an octopus.
Nice dives, some of those you won’t forget in a long time.

On Sunday we went to Yellow Mountain and did a couple of dives with Yim, William and Thomas, they where from England, Yim was a school headmaster and we enjoying going around and could see cuttlefish, octopus, some wide eyed flounders and the usual neighbours ;)

Really nice week with a new intern here. Just beginning to know Patrick but look like will make a good friendship along our internship. Still working on my rescue, but it goes too slowly, with the holydays, more things on the to be done list. So lets see how does next weeks go.

And I think this is it for now,

Take care and good luck,
Adal aka Gary aka Gary Pineapple ;)

Diving Skill's, Emergency First Response and lots of diving

This week has been used to consolidate learning in our diving skills with pool sessions with Alice and
Melissa. We are getting on many betters but still have to develop our demonstration skills further.

It has also been used to consolidate learning from a number of manuals and I passed 3 Emergency First Responder exams, which just leaves me the practical sessions to do. I will now be starting on my PADI Divemaster manual which I am looking forward to.

Gary, Stiven and I have definitely bonded as a team and we all share the tasks and responsibilities between us. On Thursday evening we celebrated Gary’s birthday by going out for a meal before going on to San Blas where we had a few drinks and played pool until 0100 before being asked to leave as they closing. We then went to a night-club where we again played pool and then danced till they closed at about 0345. We got back here to the complex at about 0400. It was very quiet in the shop the next morning!

This week I have dived at Alien Rock and the Swim Through sites. We really were an international crew with people from Spain, Holland, Russia, Germany, Canada and England. We saw a small Duckbill ray, octopus, trumpet fish and a very large shoal of Barracuda.

We also dived at Abades where we saw Octopus, Barracuda and lots of Scorpion fish. The 3 dives we had there were special as Gary and I took it in turns to lead and brief the dives on our own. It is the first time that we have been totally independent on a dive.
It bought with it a different perspective and responsibility that I enjoyed. Amazingly we managed to set off and get back to the start points without any dramas.

The weather here this week has been really warm in the 30’s and the sea temperature has now risen to 21 degrees.which makes for great diving.

“ Come and join us “

Patrick

Its my Birthday............ and i was late again!

Third Week, Gary leave me alone… He escapes for holidays! But Sam a PADI Divemaster who done his internship here arrive for two weeks. Is Spanish but he live in London and actually he look like an English because of the whiteness off his skin!!!! ahahaahh poor him!

So Pete bring Alice and I to El Delphin place, deep diving so a bit anxious …the deep blue was waiting me…30 meters is quite a bit off water on you… and quite far off the superficial!

But when I arrive on the bottom was so amazing all those big fish everywhere…and all marine blue colours, no horizon just infinite water… we have seen plenty fish.

The same day at the second dive we went to another site.
He was a new dive site for me and we have seen this strange fish a Streaked Gurnard, the can walk as a spider on the bottom swim as a any other fish in water and fly over the sea with those gorgeous blue pectoral fins… look like a butterfly…Super beautiful !!!

Sam had done the scuba tuned up!!! Naughty English skin Spanish guy ahahahhahah!!!
Joke…because I am mad ahahah!!! 
After we went straight away in Abades with Melissa  We enjoy a lot the dives Sam is very friendly and I like to speak a bit in Spanish with im to not forget… we seen a massive starfish something like 30 cm length.

Day next we went to Puerto De La Cruz, to met others divers. Jackie, Phil and Isidro to show us the new diving place off the area. Punta Teno this is the place where the north of the island meets the south, just super stunning landscape…. And Garachico, just amazing.

We did a 50-min dive! The longest time ever for me as i am not good with my air.
It was very amazing dive! I enjoy it a lot. We have seen big zebra bream and cow bream everywhere in shoal.

Furthermore as the sherry on the top of the cake we have seen a super massive round stingray over 2m of span … yes it was huge!
I was talking and screaming underwater even I had the regulator on the mouth!!!
Something Like: “OMG, Super beautiful…”

ITS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!! Getting older nooo…!
So 27 years old like a dinosaur… so good!

The day starts very well, other me late yet again nooo!,  Melissa Pete and Alice offer me one birthday card each… so cute! Thank you SUPER very much for your cards… lovely!

We went to Montaña Amarilla and Crocodile Rock with Julie and Gerhard south African, They not talk much on trip but i make up for its!
We have seen tiny brown scorpion fish and sharp nose puffer.
We were surrounded by cow breams and sharped nose bream; swimming very close to us… such good feeling!

In the afternoon I baked the best chocolate birthday cake ever for the team without any recipe just my eyes …I am the boss off cooking yeah!

I have fallen back on the reading of my books and am very behind which cause many problems to get courses done. It is such a tiring day and at night i prefer to relax instead of study, i will get it done..... some time soon ahahahhahah!!!

To finish week i late again, i just can never be right time anywhere, but weekend finish with a great dive with Melissa and Sam we have seen the a big grouper for the first time so happy!!!

Sharks and Turtles :)

This has been a really interesting week with lots of customers who have really added to the
enjoyment of it. In particular Gary And Will, Jim Alison Thomas and. William, Paul and Ella and Kevin.

On Monday we were joined by Stiven a new intern from Spain. He has settled in really well and become part of the team already. He is getting on really well with Gary who is doing a lot of translating
for him.

This week Gary and I passed our PADI Advanced course and Stiven passed his PADI Open Water dives 1-4 so we are all making progress. Stiven has done particularly well his buoyancy and really loves seeing all the various fish types.and varied dive sites.

This week I have completed 15 dives, which has been great experience. At Abades with Melissa we had some great dives with brilliant visibility and a warm sea. We saw Octopus, Lizard fish, Parrot fish, Ornate Wrasse and lots of Atlantic Damsel fish.

At Yellow Mountain with Alice we were really lucky to see an Angel shark that was about 1.3 metres in length. It was so calm and graceful in its movements. It did not seem to be bothered about us at all. It was one of the high lights of the week for me.

My most enjoyable dives were with Melissa at El Puertito where we had 4 dives over 2 days with different customers.
The reason for this was the turtles that are in the small bay. In 2008 I was lucky to do a “ Try Dive” in the Cayman Islands where there were some really large turtles in the harbour. I fell in love with the graceful and calm way, in which they moved.
It made me want to become a diver. At El Puertito we saw 3 turtles on our first dive.

One was a baby with the other 2 being adult size. Over the next 3 dives we saw turtles on each dive. On our last dive we were just about to ascend when one came over and checked us out. It was as if it had come to say good bye to us as it gently circled us and brushed against us. I found it a very moving experience. William who was aged 12 was my buddy and really enjoyed the turtles as well. I cannot wait to return to El Puertito again.

“ You really need to come out here and experience it all for yourselves”


Patrick

Dolphins and Divemasters

Diving everyday, how does that sound?
Two months ago sounded just like a dream, but now it's this week's reality.
Combine that with new dive sites and crazy dolphins and you have magical, add some happy customers with the completion of 60 dives and the stamina tests left for being a PADI Divemaster then it's rewarding.
Simply put, productive, amazing and beautiful week!

I started this week with 54 dives in my logbook. Alice took us to the new dive site to start our day with 3 dives.
The weather was just perfect, we saw the sun rising on the horizon and took some pictures and we were kitted up and ready to go very quickly.
We had three lovely dives, on the first we had a close encounter with a very curious octopus, it kept swimming gracefully like a jet from one rock to the next while watching us.
On the next dive Dennis realized that he had dropped his knife, so using his slate we planned a search and recovery technique by positioning us 4 divers horizontally next to each other going back with the same speed and looking for it.
Andreas found the knife, his buoyancy control is now very impressive, he always spots amazing creatures and now he found the knife as he usually glides at shallower depths to have a broader view of what's around him.

I was leading the third dive, we entered the water from the right most point of the coast. We saw a huge starfish and a cuttle fish next to each other, as we got closer the cuttle fish swam very fast till it disappeared in the distance. We then had a relaxing dive where we saw some scorpion fish, red lipped blennies, another octopus and some trumpet fish.

The next day we went to one of my most favourite dive sites. Poco Naufragio where the huge rays are.  So we took the boat, descended instantly to the deepest point of the site where the small wreck is waited for a couple of minutes and this huge ray was coming from the distance.
I had a look on Alice and she was covered with hundreds of fish so Pete decided we take a cruise around the site. It was the first time we do that here at Poco Naufragio, we always descend stay for a while with minimum movement then ascend back up.

But this time was really interesting because it gave me an idea of what is really around. We saw an octopus hiding under a rock. Pete was playing with his hand in front of the octopus trying to "talk" to it and it worked, the octopus' tentacles were trying to reach for Pete's hand!
Pretty impressive. On the distance, we found huge spurts of octopus ink everywhere around us.
We saw one black moray eel coming out of a rock, then from the same rock a brown moray appeared, then another Fangtooth moray appeared with some spider crabs in the same hole.
It was absolutely magical to see all three morays next to each other. We stayed there for some time taking pictures and watching them.
Then it was time for us to make our safety stop and go back on the boat.

Dennis had to choose the next dive site of the day since it was his 60th dive! We all went to yellow mountain and had an amazing dive there.
We took the tour around Alien rock from the opposite direction which is always interesting. There were so many divers around which was quite unusual.
After the dive and before we were ready to go Pete spotted what seemed like a pack of dolphins hunting on the opposite direction from the marina. But of course that doesn't matter.
When we went there, there were at least 7-9 dolphins.
They surfaced higher than usual, sometime almost jumping out of the water and so close you can hear them breathe. A mother and it's calf were the highlight of the pack.
We kept watching this happen for some time until three stupid jet skies were coming from the distance and ruined the situation.

The next day we went to Las Eras some customers.
It's always nice to go there because the rock formations are so beautiful. It was my 60th dive.
The next dive was to the pipeline and this still remains another one of my most favorite sites in Tenerife.

Lydia was doing her wreck diver speciality so we all went to Tabaiba for two amazing wreck dives. Congratulations for Alice for teaching her first wreck diver speciality course and for Lydia for becoming a new wreck diver specialist!
It was my first wreck dive and I absolutely loved it. It's relatively a big boat 6 years ago and already surrounded by loads of aquatic life. Being there underwater around the wreck is just a great privilege and you feel humbled by the size of this thing and the moment you are experience it.
Between the dives we saw a pack of dolphins hunting close to the shore. This time they were not surrounded by any boats so they felt free to jump as high as they can above the water!

Our last two dives of the week were boat dives at El Delfin and Pequeno Valle.
On the first, we descended in deeper water and went looking for angel sharks.
Just great! I could see his eyes watching us. Then we reached the rock formations. And it was packed with wildlife, we then had a relaxed dive looking around and taking pictures.

Back next week.

Una realmente corta!

Adal aka Gary

Esta semana ha sido realmente corta porque trabajé en mis labores educativas lunes, martes y viernes y además no tuve que ir el jueves porque me dieron día libre.

Al fin terminé los capítulos de mi libro de aventuras y el miercoles fuimos a Pequeño Valle y Moon Pools con una pareja Alemana Jan (instructor y Eleonora y tuvimos unos magnificas y relajadas inmersiones, el primero fue especial para Jan ya que con esa inmersión hizo las 400 y pudimos ver un chucho y vimos como Alice despertó a una manta raya que estaba cubierta de arena y muchas otras cosas porque la visibilidad era excelente y disfrutamos el recorrido por estos increíbles lugares.
El Sábado tuvimos 2 irlandeses Niall y Emmet que realizaron su Discover Scuba Diving (DSD)  y mi primera vez con Alice y Emelyne en la piscina impartiendo un DSD. Después de la sesión en la piscina y como Emelyne iba a recibir a su tío, fuimos a la Marina Pete, Alice, los irlandeses y yo, para sus primeras inmersiones en Montaña Amarilla.

El domingo para empezar el día Alice, Emelyne y yo fuimos a la piscina para prácticar nuestras skills(habilidades???) durante un rato. Yo ceo que lo hicimos bastante mejor que la primera vez que fuimos a la piscina, pero aún nos falta bastante para hacerlas correctamente, y hay tantas cosas en mi lista de cosas por hacer para llegar a ser Divemaster, pero se conseguirá llegado el momento ;).

Después de ir a la piscina Melissa nos llevó a Abades y mientras nos preparábamos para las inmersiones Alice encontró un nuevo apodo para mi Gary Pineapple, o dicho de otra manera Gary Piña, porque se me ocurrió la brillante idea de hace una cola con el pelo en la parte superior de mi cabeza, en vez de en la parte posterior.

Otra cosa que sucedió mientras nos preparábamos para las inmersiones fue que nos tocó caminar por el parking durante un rato, de una manera extraña y algo alocada, mirando nuestras brújulas e intentando que no nos atropellaran coches, porque íbamos a realizar nuestra inmersión de navegación.

Realizamos dos inmersiones allí, en la primera Alice lidero la mitad de la inmersión y Emelyne nos llevó de vuelta al punto de encuentro nos indicó Alice al principio de la inmersión, esa también fue nuestra inmersión de identificación de pescados (FID) en la que pudimos ver viejas (parrotfish), fulas negras (blue-fin damselfish), fula blanca(atlantic damselfish), sargos blancos (white bream), chopas (black bream), pejeverdes (ornate wrasse), lagartos (Diamond lizardfish), lagarto (Atlantic lizardfish), gallinitas (sharpnose buffer), tamboriles (bandtail buffer), tapacubos (wide-eyed flounder), estrellas (blue starfish), cangrejo araña (arrow crab), abanico/peineta (spiny fan-mussel), holoturias/pingaburros (cotton spinner), gusanos de fuego (fire sworms), erizos de mar comunes (sea urchins), and much more.

Otra cosa a nombrar fue también que ese día Emelyne y yo hicimos nuestro primer intento a hacer la presentación previa a la inmersión briefing, espero de verdad que llegue a parecerse más, porque tendremos que trabajar bastante porque nos faltaron bastantes cosas que decir y también tener en cuenta el orden adecuado.
De cualquier manera los dos lideramos por primera vez lideramos una inmersión correctamente, no como la parte de la inmersión de navegación en que por una de mis mal interpretaciones y alguna de Emelyne, la liamos un poco, de cualquier manera fueron unas magnificas inmersiones en las que vimos bastantes peces, con buena visibilidad y también la locura que significa ver por primera vez un club de buceo o lo que fuera que fue, teniendo algún momento con algo de masificación subacuatica en nuestra segunda inmersión.

Esta semana fue bastante buena en la que los clientes fueron muy agradables y ayudaban y también una semana extraña porque estaré fuera durante casi 2 semanas, porque después del lunes y martes en mis labores docentes, me voy unos días a Madrid y mi primer viaje al África continental, visitando Marruecos hasta el día 29 de marzo.

Adal aka Gary aka Gary Pineapple ;)