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.
No comments:
Post a Comment