TEAM TEACHING

Team Teaching with Tom: Yesterday I went for a couple of fun dives in the morning and both were excellent. We went to Iron Bound and Aquarium. I led to dives for 2 other fun divers.

In the afternoon, I assisted Tom with an Open Water class as an instructor rather than a divemaster. This meant I was able to actually instruct one of the students. Tom was having problems with the class as they are pretty slow learners. I think they just want to go diving and don't want to learn the skills. I took the student with the most problems and worked with her. She did just great and got through the skills without any serious problems. Tom had her do the controlled emergency swimming ascent though and she has trouble with that one. She can get to the surface just fine but she can't kick hard enough to be high enough above the water to orally inflate her BCD which is part of the skill. I think she'll have to practice it again today and she's not going to be happy about it. Its the hardest skill to do.

The students asked me to come back today and help out and that made me feel really good.

A few people went out to an Israeli restaurant last night. I didn't think I'd like it but I had chicken curry and it was excellent. Our students who were from Israel showed up later also but we didn't sit at the same table. I made it an early night again and I was in bed by 10pm.