It's official! I got my Divemaster certification number yesterday. Also, I have logged 99 dives. Next dive is 100! (which I am told has to be naked). Tomorrow Holly and I start the EFR instructor course.
I finished my divemaster certification! It is tradition around the world to do a snorkel test to celebrate this momentous occasion, and so last night, three of us new divemasters, along with two others who had never done their snorkel tests, had to wear taped up masks and snorkels while beer and rum was poured down the snorkel. I've never been able to shotgun a single beer. Way too foamy. Last night I did three, through a snorkel. Initiation complete. I may be staying a bit longer than I originally anticipated. I know I told everyone that I would be home in
It was a typical morning at the shop and we walked in, and went to the board to see where we were supposed to be for the morning. Four of us interns were assigned to the Kasandra, going to Sea Star Channel, to work on our mapping project. There are various skills we need to complete to become divemasters, one of which is mapping a dive site, and we were all assigned sea star channel. There were also customers on the boat so we were going to be dropped off to do our mapping, and then picked back up on
All of us interns decided to get our wreck specialties, which means that we spend four dives mapping, planning, and finally penetrating a wreck. And yes, the actual technical term in diving for entering a wreck is "penetration," so you can only imagine the wide array of jokes that go along with wreck diving. There are two wrecks in Roatan down near West End, the Aguila, and the Odyssey. Earlier this week we spent an entire day diving the two. Dive #1 is just exploring the outside of the wreck. Since Holly and I had already done esentially that for our
Day 47 There is a single road that runs the entire length of the island and that is the only way to get from one end to the other (short of having your own boat and sailing around). The shop is about half an hour away from the intern house and this morning we made it about ten minutes before being stopped to find out the road is blocked for the triathlon. So there is no way to get to work today, which is just fine by all of us because another storm is rolling in. So Valentine's Day was absolutely amazing.