Cert Test?

[ciera kid]

Taking Certification test this weekend. 10/9 and 10/10. Just wondering what we will do, :06: or if varies from instructor to instructor.

 

[The Kraken]

Don't remember exactly, but it's pretty much spelled out in the back of your OW text.

 

[Walter]

Are you referring to the test (written final exam) or your check out dives?

Depends on your agency, there are lots of differences.

 

[ciera kid]

past written.....doing check out dives

 

[H2Andy]

you will perform the skills you've practiced in the pool. it depends on the agency
what those are exactly.

you can talk to your instructor and ask what those skills will be.

 

[simbrooks]

If my memory serves me correctly it probably includes (but not limited to) descents, ascents, mask clearing, regulator recovery, snorkel/reg switch, swimming on a compass heading, some form of general orientation/guided tour to the area underwater, maybe mask removal and replace, hovering, CESA, air sharing (including ascent?), maybe some other stuff depending on instructor, but those are some basics that i think most OW checkout dives include.

 

[ChrisA]

Taking Certification test this weekend. 10/9 and 10/10. Just wondering what we will do, :06: or if varies from instructor to instructor.

I see it's two dates. So you mean the in the water dives. Basically you do everything you did in the pool but only you will do it again in open water. If it's PADI it is spelled out in the book in some detail. The first of the four dives is just going down, maybe sswimming around some then come up in maybe 30 feet.

DOn't think of it as a "test" it's just a continuation of what you've been doing. Or conversly the whole class is a "test" because you don't do step two until you can do step one. So this is just the final four steps of a nine session long test.

 

[Guillotine]

Yesterday I did the dive test, first the instructor asked us to swim 7 times going/coming in the pool, second to stand in the deep water for 10 mins. After we went down with full gear, he asked us to take off our weight belts and wear it back, our BCD’s as well. That was it I think, cause we did everything else in the previous sessions including:

Clearing Mask.
Regulator recovery.
Securing Alternate air for buddy.
Underwater communication.
Buoyancy.
Cramp Removal.
Switching: Snorkel to Regulator.
Going To water: Surface/Boat.
Assembling your Gear.
Buddy check.

That’s what I can remember so far. But I wonder (as I though to post this today) what kind of questions we have to answer in the writing test?
Is there any site that has similar questions so I can practice?

 

[Fly N Dive]

second to stand in the deep water for 10 mins.

umm i think you were supposed to be treading water!!! :06: :06:

 

[Diver0001]

Taking Certification test this weekend. 10/9 and 10/10. Just wondering what we will do, :06: or if varies from instructor to instructor.

Assuming it's a PADI course you'll recognise almost all of the skills from teh pool sessions. There are a few things you haven't seen yet or they are very different in open water:

- The first meaningful buoyancy check with a "heavy" wetsuit on (at least I'm assuming this by looking at your profile/location).

- The first meaningful removal/replacement of gear on the surface, especially weights, which could be more than 20lbs.

- First CESA that goes up.

- Compass navigation (straight lines out/back) both on the surface and under water.

- First dives to 10 metres.

- ..... and probably .... your first silt-clouds.....

The way it's typically done, the first checkout dive includes a lot of swimming and surface skills. The 2nd and 3rd are kind of busy but you'll get a tour once the skills are done and the last dive only has a couple of skills to perform and the tour is longer.

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