The three FNGs are done with the pool stuff and have their first couple of OW dives tonight. Unfortunately I didnt get to watch the pool scissions, but I have had some feedback from the three of them.
No fufu stuff but some reality training. Their instructor knows exactly what we need and want out of them. No excuses for this and that but down to earth tougher training. Kind of like it was 30 years ago.
One of them got a little wild with a knife and went to the ER for 6 stitches in his index finger between the hand and first joint. The class was delayed slightly until he returned and went right back at it.
Im going tonight and by the weekend they will have more than AOW, all within 6 days. The better they do at a skill the tougher the next skill and the one they are good at gets. They have had elbows in the face, a mask that is impossible to clear a regulator that leaks like a blown hose and what ever else the dear sweet man teaching can blast them with.
The open water dives tonight will be calm and collected but they dont know that. I know they are expecting the worst and they arent going to get it.
Every step in their training has been an unknown surprise once the basics were mastered. They have preformed like real professionals and that is exactly what I knew they would do.
A fourth guy in the class is another Deputy but he isnt on the team. Maybe someday and if he does he will have a good foundation to build on.
Gary D.
No fufu stuff but some reality training. Their instructor knows exactly what we need and want out of them. No excuses for this and that but down to earth tougher training. Kind of like it was 30 years ago.
One of them got a little wild with a knife and went to the ER for 6 stitches in his index finger between the hand and first joint. The class was delayed slightly until he returned and went right back at it.
Im going tonight and by the weekend they will have more than AOW, all within 6 days. The better they do at a skill the tougher the next skill and the one they are good at gets. They have had elbows in the face, a mask that is impossible to clear a regulator that leaks like a blown hose and what ever else the dear sweet man teaching can blast them with.
The open water dives tonight will be calm and collected but they dont know that. I know they are expecting the worst and they arent going to get it.
Every step in their training has been an unknown surprise once the basics were mastered. They have preformed like real professionals and that is exactly what I knew they would do.
A fourth guy in the class is another Deputy but he isnt on the team. Maybe someday and if he does he will have a good foundation to build on.
Gary D.
