So the last of the pool sessions have finished. the good news is that i have "saved" my last two buddies when they ran out of air. my skills are seemingly up to par, the instructor seems pleased with everyone's progress.
Buoyancy is still hard but i'm told by people i trust that it will improve over time. i was unable to do the optional duck dive recovery of gear off the bottom of the 5 meter pool. i'm not able to equalize as i go down that fast. instructor said it was just something extra to learn and to stop immediately and resurface if you couldn't equalize on the way down. and i'm not too upset to be honest, my dive buddy made it down then couldn't find his respirator got a lung full of water, panicked and rocketed to the surface with an instructor behind him. i passed the duck diving bit though ^^
oh and i can do emergency assent on no air now, well at least i can go up 5 meters ...
Blaise came with me to watch and take photos, poor guy, the instructors realized at the end he was here to watch and said "Oh there is an underwater observation window below us".
DOH! we could have had underwater shots!
speaking of underwater shots, there was a woman doing her underwater photography course and she came with our group to practice on our last night in the pool. our instructor is a pretty laid back guy (with close to 600 dives, movie work, recovery work, research, etc) so he had the 6 of us (4 students & 2 instructors) stand on each others shoulders in a pyramid, 3,2,1. There are pictures of it because he told her he was going to do it so she was there with the camera when we started to build up. The other groups must have wondered what the heck we were doing.
i'll post a pyramid picture when i get a copy.
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