ChrisEdwards
Guest
Just got back from Nassau. My daughter turned 12 while we were there so we managed to get 3 dives in (3 tanks). She did a Resort course a couple of days before her birthday and then begged to do a 2 tank re-resort course on her birthday.
Not sure if we are allowed to mention the dive operation, but they were great both days. The instructors were marvelous both days. I tagged along for the Resort course, doing both the classroom portion and then the single tank dive. She did all her basics in about 10fsw of clear calm ocean with one other student. She capped that off with a 30 minute shallow reef dive.
On her birthday, she did the re-resort 2 tank dive. Weather was perfect, ocean was calm with barely a swell. For the first dive we did a wreck dive in about 40fsw. There were 3 re-resort students, all girls around 12 to 13 years of age, 3 parents and the instructor. The instructor had the girls stick to him like glue and spent quite a lot of time swimming backwards so he could keep a watchful eye on all the girls, while us parents brought up the rear. The instructor descended and accended a line making sure they all equalized their ears coming down and didn't ascend too fast on the way up. During the dive he would stop and show them diffrent types of coral, fish, etc. indicating what they were looking at by writing on his slate pad.
On the second dive, we managed to see about 6 or 7 Caribbean Reef Sharks. We had had a brief discussion about these during our surface interval, stating that we might see a couple. My daughter was so pumped to see the sharks, it was the highlight of her birthday. None of us felt threatened by the sharks at any time, it was so cool. I managed to get quite a few good/novice photo's as they passed within about 10ft or so.
My daughter is now hooked on scuba diving and we are will be getting her into OW classes within the next month or so.
We're just waiting for for weather and water to warm up a bit locally.
Not sure if we are allowed to mention the dive operation, but they were great both days. The instructors were marvelous both days. I tagged along for the Resort course, doing both the classroom portion and then the single tank dive. She did all her basics in about 10fsw of clear calm ocean with one other student. She capped that off with a 30 minute shallow reef dive.
On her birthday, she did the re-resort 2 tank dive. Weather was perfect, ocean was calm with barely a swell. For the first dive we did a wreck dive in about 40fsw. There were 3 re-resort students, all girls around 12 to 13 years of age, 3 parents and the instructor. The instructor had the girls stick to him like glue and spent quite a lot of time swimming backwards so he could keep a watchful eye on all the girls, while us parents brought up the rear. The instructor descended and accended a line making sure they all equalized their ears coming down and didn't ascend too fast on the way up. During the dive he would stop and show them diffrent types of coral, fish, etc. indicating what they were looking at by writing on his slate pad.
On the second dive, we managed to see about 6 or 7 Caribbean Reef Sharks. We had had a brief discussion about these during our surface interval, stating that we might see a couple. My daughter was so pumped to see the sharks, it was the highlight of her birthday. None of us felt threatened by the sharks at any time, it was so cool. I managed to get quite a few good/novice photo's as they passed within about 10ft or so.
My daughter is now hooked on scuba diving and we are will be getting her into OW classes within the next month or so.
We're just waiting for for weather and water to warm up a bit locally.
