just finished Rescue Diver!

[David P]

Yeah for us! I just completed my Rescue Diver course yesterday out at Anacappa Island. We all learned how easy it is to screw up a rescue! After a few tries things went well. Other than the class turning into a search and recovery for 2 or 3 masks and the anchor line to our float... There was also a momentary scare when we thought there might be a true rescue as a diver surfaced far away from the boat and shoved his mask on his forhead and started waving. All worked out fine, and in the end I saw about 8 lobsters, 3 octopi, nudis, cowries, got cought in a nice surge and plunked down onto an urchin (minor surgery back home), and logged my fiftieth dive! Helluva good weekend! And all the little hotties from UC Santa Barbara who were getting open water certified and prancing around in their little bikinis didn't hurt much either!

 

[chocolate]

Congratulations! I'll be taking mine soon, most likely later on this summer.

 

[Guba]

Rescue diver offers great information and skills. Congratulations!

 

[fairybasslet]

Congrats!!

 

[Trixxie]

Congrats!!
We are 1/2 way done with class - exam and pool session on 5/20 and check out dive on 5/27
:yl2jump:
woot!

 

[vel525]

That's awesome. I am looking to do mine, but I just refuse to dive around here. Maybe next time I'm down in FL I will do it.

 

[ProfessorAronnax]

Congratulations!

 

[pir8]

Good job

 

[ScubaKimmie]

There was also a momentary scare when we thought there might be a true rescue as a diver surfaced far away from the boat and shoved his mask on his forhead and started waving.

Those darn MOF divers.....

 

[CHUD]

Congratulations, David! I just completed my Rescue course this weekend too, at the Catalina dive park. And I logged dive #50 in the class too!

I don't know about you, but that class Kicked My *ss. We had to find an unconscious diver on the bottom, surface him, tow him to shore (through about a mile of kelp, it seemed like), and then haul him up the steps. I thought *I* was going to die. But I'm really glad I did it (and survived it!).

Congratulations to us both!