DAY 4 IDC: In the morning we climbed into the pool and practiced our rescue techniques for unconscious divers on the surface. I’m finally getting better at this and feel pretty good about my progress. We took turns being victim and rescuer. The pool we use is small but functional. I’d guess its about 15 by 15.
Later we graded our tests from the day before covering various PADI standards and procedures. We reviewed all of the questions that anyone missed and I missed several though I did get a passing grade. This was just a practice test however. Some of the questions are really tricky and almost no one likes the choice of words sometimes used by PADI.
After lunch we went diving to practice a skill none of use have ever attempted. We had to brief students (ourselves really) on two different skills and then have them perform the skills in the water. The course director had the students make mistakes and we had to try and identify them. Sometimes its easy but other times especially when two students are working together, its extremely difficult to watch them, control them, and look for mistakes and dangerous situations. Some people did very poorly and I actually made a serious error. I misunderstood the skill and told my students to perform the wrong one. On the actual test, I would have failed. Luckily this was practice and I scored a 4 on the skills which is pretty good. On another, I scored a 3.7. They tried something on me that was not planned for or thought about by anyone. I had a student that tried the skill several times but just didn’t do it. I was stumped for a long time but then I decided to have my assistant demonstrate the skill to see if the student would learn from someone else. The instructor was elated that I figured out what to do. I was relieved.
More HOMEWORK.
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