GUE DIR-F March 16-18, 2007

[Jason B]

I never said I passed, I look you guys up, when im settled in.

Whoops, my bad on the pass thing. I'm sure you will rise to the occasion.

I'm coming too

Come on up. Plenty of diving around here.

 

[diverderek]

I got to agree great class! Very hard but lots of fun. My side was hurting first thing every morning from laughing so much and my lower back and butt at night from holding position so long in the water. Hours! OH, hey Riddler it's me Joker, sorry I killed you twice. My Bad! You want to go diving? LOL The class truly is what you make of it. And it helps when you have a realistic view of what basic skill mastery, buddy skills (I am not saying anything about that one) and 100% quality control before you move to the next level. To bad other agencies dont do that.
Mark and Doug are amazing to watch in the water and two of the best I have seen. Mark handles the class beautifully and I have never felt that comfortable before in a training enviroment. I am looking forward to the day I can go back and show them I am ready. I hope that day is sooner than later.

 

[diverderek]

Mark did play a hand in the Riddlers death. He had no can light so he stuck him last. I didn't know how to signal him with out loosing distance from the penguine. The penguine would ok me with the light and then I would dip my head under my arm pit in the corners of the swim to make sure he was there and then look back at number 1 like what do I do? We are really far apart? Then I started signaling slow down to 1. I had picked one person to pay attention to and it was the wrong one and all together wrong choice. We were just told to tighten up and not loose bouancy with one another but 1 is 20' in front of 2 and 2 is 15' from 3. The open water guys standing on the platforms watching us of course are doing nothing for the vis. I least I learned it there. Sorry Riddler

 

[Sea-Jay]

No problem, Joker, all good fun, i but i loved watching the video of it though. Thats why i wanted to #1, but there always next time.

Well, i actually passed, but i don't think its important to pass/fail/provisional, we three, the penguine, joker and i the riddler want to become better and safer divers, I didn't look for the passed, I still don't think im there yet, and I don't won't to be a bad representive of GUE.

 

[Vayu]

You keep saying you died Can't let that one happen again. In an out of gas drill train like you are really out of gas. If my buddy doesn't donate I will still need gas and I would make the signal clear and take their regulator

 

[H2Andy]

usually i don't die but kill my buddy

is that any better?

 

[Vayu]

Don't kill your buddy either...

I don't wanna rub it in but i've never killed a man and don't plan to do it.

 

[TSandM]

Oh, Vayu, you wait . . . At some point, a GUE instructor will grin with malicious glee while watching you turn off the post your buddy's breathing, or take the team the wrong way on the line after a failure, or get the whole team so entangled in line that you would never get out of the cave. You watch. They will.

 

[H2Andy]

I don't wanna rub it in but i've never killed a man and don't plan to do it.

notice how he words that carefully ... no mention of his (several) missing female buddies

 

[amascuba]

Oh, Vayu, you wait . . . At some point, a GUE instructor will grin with malicious glee while watching you turn off the post your buddy's breathing, or take the team the wrong way on the line after a failure, or get the whole team so entangled in line that you would never get out of the cave. You watch. They will.

My fundies caught me not being aware of the line during our class. He asked me to do a backwards kick and happily filmed me as I did a fine backwards kick right into the line. One of my team mates saw what was happening and signaled for me to stop and promptly untangled me. Rob said during film review that if it was one of his tech classes he would have wrapped the line around my calf four times and put a square not in it.