Yackov Munkevo from Denmark had been booked in to start his Underwater Documentary.
He arrived a couple of days ago with all his lovely camera gear… First thing was to test the housing. It did not go well!
He took it in the pool where it was discovered that the damm thing was leaking! A major bodge job repair by me, and we tested again to find that my fix had done the job…
We went for a dive yesterday, with no camera inside and it was a success, so it was back to the pool for more tests with the camera inside this time… Still no leaks!
This morning, he heads out for his first dives with the housing and camera… Fingers crossed!!
On a side note… Best wishes to my brother on his trip to Mount Elgon, and good news that my mum is back home after her knee operation!
Again its been a frantic week of stuff… hence the blog posting has been minnimal… sorry about that…
After 2 days of Permaculture… which was very tiring, digging trenches for water runoff in rock hard ground.. (I even managed to break the pickaxe!!)
Tired, and a bit crispy from all the sun… I was placed on another rescue course, and then immediately following that I was onto Open Waters again!
The Open Water course was not easy… Starting with 4 people, I did academics on the first day, and the next day it was into the pool… They were quite nervous, and halfway through the session, 1 of the students dropped a weight on to her big toe… Blood everywhere and a screaming student was not fun… She ended up going to the clinic, having her toenail taken off, and left yesterday without completing the course..
The 3 remaining students improved, but it was still hard… I had no time to eat during the course… managing to eat a banana on one day, and a sandwich 24 hours later… The next day, I didn’t eat again, and returning from the boat in a foul mood, I had a big rant about some staff issues I was not happy with… I then left the bar to go and finally get some food… Ordering a veggie calzone pizza to takeaway… it ended up coming with ham… and I lost my rag.. Walking out of the bar swearing and shouting at the staff was probably not my proudest moment… and I shall not be going back there in a while..
Open Water course finished yesterday, and straight on to Advanced today…. 5 more dives and maybe I’ll have a couple of days of to relax and shutdown for a bit…. but being Full Moon… I am not sure that’ll be the case.
I am glad to hear that my Mum’s knee operation went ok… I managed to call her yesterday at her hospital bed, and besides the obvious pain, she seemed in good spirits… Get well soon ma!!!
A full on week again, has limited me from posting on the blog. While Jen has been conducting Eco dives, I was asked to do another Rescue Course.
With 3 divers, and an MDST candidate (a new instructor learning the ropes) it was a tough course as I like things doing my way, but you have to give some control to the new instructor and allow them to make their mistakes. After completion, I was looking forward to 2 days out of the water at a Permaculture workshop.
Getting up this morning was hard, after a week of waking up a 3 – 4 am… I was quite blurry eyed as we headed to the Save Koh Tao office.
After a lecture about Permaculture, we had some lunch and proceeded to make a small garden patch using a technique called Sheet Mulching.
Using layers of cardboard, brown leaves, greenery etc, to make up different layers of Carbon and Nitrogen we built it up over a couple of hours before placing compost on top and planting a range of veggies.
