Open Water course on Piłakno lake

Last weekend we did the OWD course internship. This was kind of hard despite that there was four of us divemaster trainees (DMTs for short), because there were 9 people doing this course and the visibility in Piłakno is at most 5m (that is before the OWDs get in the water:) ). Because of the visibility our instructor split the course into two groups so that each DMT had his own diver to supervise. So we had to do 8 dives during two days (of which one was my birthday:/). The weather was not so good either.

During the dives we supervised the OWD trainees so that they would not get lost or jump to the surface at high speed. One of my divers tried to do that so I had to catch him and bring him down. This was harder than I thought as I didn't have enough weights on me to pull him with a full BCD down... My bad..

We also helped new divers in practicing their skills, don their gear, answered A LOT of questions on different topics... all in all great fun and a very rewarding experience.

Assisting during Rescue Diver pool sessions

Yesterday we did our internships during PADI Rescue Diver confined waters training. This part of the Rescue Diver course is generally hard work, though it gets even harder in the open water.

This pool session was a total organizational fuckup. The to-be-rescue-divers didn't have any classes, they didn't even get to see the Rescue Diver Video, so we had to instruct them in-water which was a bit awkward.

During the pool session managed to show them various techniques of towing a diver, with and without rescue breathing and that was about it.

Afterwards it turned out that the pool will be close from the next week onwards and so the trainees won't be able to practice surfacing unconscious diver before open water.