Jen was called in for a 1 person Discover Scuba Dive this morning… nice and simple. She went in the pool with her student for the morning session, while I went and worked on my laptop.

At about 11:30am, I got a called requesting me to come in and do 4 x people Discover Scuba Dive.. I hate 4 x people DSD’s as its their first time ever in scuba gear, and is a real challenge for me. When I arrived at the dive school, things turned out to be even worse….

Jen (looking rather sheepish) told me that the group were Chinese (who are rarely comfortable) in the water…. and to top that… 3 of them could not swim. In my mind I think its absolute nuts to be able to jump on a boat and go into the ocean with a load of scuba gear when you are incapable of swimming, but the requirements for a DSD do not stipulate that you need to swim.. very odd.

After trying to convince them to have a pool session and then go from the beach for a dive, they refused, certain that they wanted to go on the afternoon boat. I knew it was going to be a hard day!

Once at the dive site, I kitted them all up, and jumped in, dragging 4 x students to the shoreline where they could stand, keeping them as calm as possible…

To be able to do a DSD, you need to be able to do a couple of skills… these usually take from 5 to 10 minutes… It took an hour of panicking etc… In that time, Jen had completed her dive, and came over to help… It was welcome!

Anyway, the dive was manageable with 2 each, unfortunately my ear was blocked, so I suffered 25 minutes of pain (I couldn’t abort the dive and leave Jen with 4 people)… Eventually, I had enough and got everyone to the surface.. I then endured 2 hours of agony, due to massive pressure in one of my ears which could not escape… believe me… I was not very pleased with my day. The pressure finally subsided, and now I remain deaf in one ear (temporary)… so no diving for me for a few days 🙁

On a lighter note…. we had a request for a personal message to Mr & Mrs Mandry… so here it is!! (Click on the picture to make it larger!!!)

xxx

SD

Yesterday I finished my 2 person (Chinese) Open Water course.  All went really well and I for the girl to overcome a fear of water, I was very impressed and so very proud.

Today, Si’s got a couple of DSD’s (Discover Scuba Diving) and is currently in the pool with them, just going over a couple of basic skills and then will be on the afternoon boat for their dive.

I’ve actually got the day off but decided to come down to Crystal to help Si out getting his DSD’s equipment ready and now Im just sat in the bar typing away and looking at the paintwork of the office and surrounding buildings and thinking, should I,  shouldnt I paint it.  I’ve been thinking this for some time now and I think what Im going to do is, make a little sketch as to what needs to be done and then go to the boss and ask him how much he’ll pay me to do it ;-D

Not much to report really.

The island is very quiet, the weather is pretty poor, delay our efforts to get our “coral ship” into the sea..

I have been working on UK stuff, and a new promo video which seems to be taking forever.

Jenny has a 2 person Chinese Open Water which she completes today.

In other news, I have booked MotoGP tickets for Malaysia in 3 weeks… 3 QUID A TICKET!!! AWESOME… Now I just have to figure out how to get there…

xx

SD