A quick early morning dash to guildie on Saturday morning gave an opportunity to run yet another SMB Distinctive Specialty and bring another student to the brink of Master Scuba Diver. Of course we also took the opportunity to finish of a long awaited Rescue course that will allow Orca to go on and qualify another Dive Master as well.
In fact it was all a fairly relaxing day and I am sure that it will seem even more so once we have completed our next trip to Guildie later in July when it looks like we have around twenty people going to Open Water.
Guildie doesn't change much but at least the weather does and on Saturday it was a reasonable decent day with only the slightest passing hint of rain. Having got on site by 10 am the first disappointing news was the Kirstie would be unable to dive as she had started to suffer badly from a cold, which meant we had top quality surface cover.
The SMB Specialty is fast becoming one of my favourite two dive courses not least because launching a DSMB is such a vital skill for any diver and so many people get it wrong. We now have a full presentation for the SMB course together with a range of equipment to use and compare. I have taken to the view that as DSMB launching is all about practising I also make sure that students get plenty of this by getting them to launch a range of DSMB's using both automatic and manual filling options.
Mid water launching is always a fine skill to learn and in Guildie that was even more the case as visibility was close to as bad as I can ever recall it. Still there is nothing quite as satisfying as seeing DSMB standing proud at the surface because they have been properly deployed.
So after another pleasant weekends dive it is back to the classroom as next Sunday I am running another Equipment specialty back by popular demand and this time with an all new and improved presentation.
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