DEBRIEF: The picture shows Jack doing his debrief after and dive training session. He is being scored by 3 different instructors. As you can see our office often includes the picnic tables, the beach, the boat or the water. Its a tough job but someone has to do it. From left to right we have Rich, Jungle, Robert and Jack.
CESA: Today we practiced the CESA (controlled emergency swimming ascent). We went out with two course directors and they showed us some tips and then we practiced the procedures ourselves. The idea is to teach a student to safely ascend from 30 feet if he were out of air and couldn't find his buddy. Its a bit dangerous to do this several times in succession so our practice was limited to a few feet.
We also practiced tying knots underwater. We did the bowline and sheetbend. You have to go very slowly as if you are demontrating it to a student. It takes some practice to learn the knots and then even more to do them underwater.
We also took another practice test covering the various PADI standards. Its open book but the book is very long and complex so the answers aren't always easy to find. I got 38 out of 40 so that's pretty good.
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