Monday, November 4, 2013

Scuba Certification Weekend


 This weekend was my scuba class certification weekend. It is not mandatory, but after attending the class weeks for 12 and getting an A on the final I was like why wouldn’t I get officially certified to dive whenever I want. Not to mention it was also extremely fun in the process. So for the certification my fellow classmates and I had to travel solo or carpool to Blue Lagoon just outside of Huntsville. I carpooled with my dive buddy; it took about 3 hours and was an awesome drive. Once there we meet up with the rest of our class and began to do some dive prep and planning for our first dive. The first dive is a skills test; we go down and perform all the basic underwater skills needed to operate as a diver. After that dive we had a 1-hour brake. I took this time to set up my tent and get everything situated since we would be camping that night. After that hour was up we started the second dive. The Second dive was a rescue dive. All we had to do was demonstrate that we could safely bring a person who is unconscious to the surface. Since that dive was so short we also did the 3rd dive with it, which was a tour of the area we were in. It was the funniest dive of the day because we just got to swim around and checkout sunken boats and whatnot. After the 3rd dive we were just got to chill. That night we drank some brew around the campfire and played Cards of Humanity. It was a kick ass night, a little cold but the fire made up for it. The next day we had one dive left to complete before we got our certifications, it was the student led dive. For this dive the objective was for us the students to plan and execute a dive on our own with an instructor just following along. Everyone did it perfectly and we all got our certifications.

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