Rescue Diver training on Piłakno Lake

Wow, Rescue Diver training seems to be as hard for the Divemasters as it is for the trainees.. especially when the divemasters are also helping during Deep Diver speciality... This is basically what me and Magda were doing last weekend.

The RD open water training focuses mainly on different ways of getting a diver having a problem to the shore or other safe place. That is why the future RDs where practicing different methods of towing a tired or unconscious diver (sometimes with rescue breathing). A lot attention is also put on searching for a missing diver. During the training trainees were first practicing, under DM supervision, different search patterns (U-shape, square etc.) and then applying these skills in a simulated rescue action.

Viz in the lake was rather poor (less than 5m) and so we had to keep really close to "our" trainee during this supervision. It was then when I got kicked in the face with to-be-rescue-diver's fin and bit off the mouthpiece of my regulator:/ I had to finish that dive on my octo.