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By: Holly Surratt
On Friday, March 7, I met two Advanced Open Water students at the shop to head out to the Yellow Brick Road, in Hollywood, Florida to complete Adventure Dives Underwater Navigation and Underwater Naturalist. On the first dive, The Navigation Dive, we headed south/east while counting and timing our kick cycles to determine how large of a distance we cover while swimming. Upon surfacing we completed our five minute surface interval before beginning our Naturalist dive and heading North to the Yellow Brick Road. Immediately the students and I were greeted by a massive nurse shark along with a file fish, a hog fish, and some wrasses. Towards the end of the dive we came across a giant large toothed saw-fish. This species is very endangered as well as rare to see while diving because of their keen sense of picking up heartbeats underwater.
Saturday rolled around and Instructor Rick met his Open Water Students at the shops' pool to complete confined water dives 1, 2, & 3 before the group headed out to the lake where they completed dives 1 & 2.
Both the Open Water and Advanced Open Water Students went home with happy thoughts of the boat trip the following morning. Sunday, I met my advanced student at 8:30 AM at the Miami Beach Marina for the Deep, Peak Performance Buoyancy, and Search & Recovery Dives. The first destination was The Belcher Barge, descending to 70 feet my students and I were greeted with a mild current pulling us to the South. However, my students completed the swim easily before playing with an egg and drinking some soda at our destination point. During ascent an instructor from another shop teaching some Open Water Students reported spotting a Bull Shark towards the southern tip of the site.
Our next destination was The Rainbow Reef. My students and I descended down to 30 feet before beginning our peak performance buoyancy dive. The current was almost non existent and the visibility was an outstanding 40 feet making our diving easy. We surfaced, completed a five minute surface interval then began our Search & Recovery Dive. I told my students to face south while I hid their recovery object. During the S pattern, the students found the object with ease. the expanding square proved to be a bit harder before they found the object. After they discovered my hiding place we used the lift bag to lift the object and began our ascent. The students surfaced with confidence and became advanced certified divers.
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Cheers and see you next week!
On Friday, March 7, I met two Advanced Open Water students at the shop to head out to the Yellow Brick Road, in Hollywood, Florida to complete Adventure Dives Underwater Navigation and Underwater Naturalist. On the first dive, The Navigation Dive, we headed south/east while counting and timing our kick cycles to determine how large of a distance we cover while swimming. Upon surfacing we completed our five minute surface interval before beginning our Naturalist dive and heading North to the Yellow Brick Road. Immediately the students and I were greeted by a massive nurse shark along with a file fish, a hog fish, and some wrasses. Towards the end of the dive we came across a giant large toothed saw-fish. This species is very endangered as well as rare to see while diving because of their keen sense of picking up heartbeats underwater.
Saturday rolled around and Instructor Rick met his Open Water Students at the shops' pool to complete confined water dives 1, 2, & 3 before the group headed out to the lake where they completed dives 1 & 2.
Both the Open Water and Advanced Open Water Students went home with happy thoughts of the boat trip the following morning. Sunday, I met my advanced student at 8:30 AM at the Miami Beach Marina for the Deep, Peak Performance Buoyancy, and Search & Recovery Dives. The first destination was The Belcher Barge, descending to 70 feet my students and I were greeted with a mild current pulling us to the South. However, my students completed the swim easily before playing with an egg and drinking some soda at our destination point. During ascent an instructor from another shop teaching some Open Water Students reported spotting a Bull Shark towards the southern tip of the site.
Our next destination was The Rainbow Reef. My students and I descended down to 30 feet before beginning our peak performance buoyancy dive. The current was almost non existent and the visibility was an outstanding 40 feet making our diving easy. We surfaced, completed a five minute surface interval then began our Search & Recovery Dive. I told my students to face south while I hid their recovery object. During the S pattern, the students found the object with ease. the expanding square proved to be a bit harder before they found the object. After they discovered my hiding place we used the lift bag to lift the object and began our ascent. The students surfaced with confidence and became advanced certified divers.
Can't get enough of diving? continue your education by clicking here.
Cheers and see you next week!
