Wednesday evening and we got everything going starting out with the course overview and the discussion on the benefits and virtues of PADI. I don't know about the students but I have to say I am ready and eager to get started on the course in earnest on Saturday morning.
The course opening and initial discussions are always good fun. Amongst the participants we have one person who will have done all his courses with Orca and it does make me feel very proud that we have helped him get to this level and to see the results of his efforts.
We also had a couple of BSAC observers in the classroom which does make for interesting discussions when you are talking about the virtues of PADI.
There was a fairly typical mixture of reasons given as to what had started Gill, James and Amanda off as divers but my best one for the night was when Steve told us that he had taken up diving because he couldn't swim. Logical when you think about it...........
After the overview and some fruitful discussions about what attributes make a good diver it was off to the deep pool to run a skill circuit. I am delighted to report that the standards in general were excellent.
All about tomorrow now.
The course opening and initial discussions are always good fun. Amongst the participants we have one person who will have done all his courses with Orca and it does make me feel very proud that we have helped him get to this level and to see the results of his efforts.
We also had a couple of BSAC observers in the classroom which does make for interesting discussions when you are talking about the virtues of PADI.
There was a fairly typical mixture of reasons given as to what had started Gill, James and Amanda off as divers but my best one for the night was when Steve told us that he had taken up diving because he couldn't swim. Logical when you think about it...........
After the overview and some fruitful discussions about what attributes make a good diver it was off to the deep pool to run a skill circuit. I am delighted to report that the standards in general were excellent.
All about tomorrow now.
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