Thats the latin name for this little Sea Slug. Apparently never seen on Koh Tao before…. Jenny managed to grab some footage of the little fella zooming across some sea grass… very cute… Will we ever find him again? If so, I want some super close up shots with the big boy camera.. Well done Jenny!

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Happy Birthday Janet & Happy Anniversary Rosie & Charles

Up & raring to go we were at Crystal around 9.30 to meet Kiwi.  Back in classroom we started looking at BCD’s and were given the challenge of threading the tank strap back up in 2 minutes.  As I only remember doing this once I think in my DMT days, neither of us did it correctly or in the time DOH!   Oh well, after being shown, it just took seconds, at least now we will never forget ;-D

The next thing we looked at was the inflator hose buttons which we disassembled, checked, cleaned and reassembled.  Then we looked at dump valves, all in all very basic and straight forward to repair.

We then moved onto tanks.  All we could do with these was to service the actual tank valve by emptying the tank of air and then unscrewing the valve itself from the tank and disassembling the components inside, replacing all the Orings and giving each part a thorough clean before putting anything back together.

I’d like to spend a couple of days working on faulty dive equipment to make myself more familiar with all of the components as I found it really interesting.

Tonight is a group of DMT’s snorkel test, so we’ll pop down to watch that and then head home for another early night as we’ve signed up for the 7am boat

Last nights celebrations were brilliant.    Luca has no idea about his surprise party and the newly qualified instructors were on great form. It wasn’t our intention to stay out late but I think we left around midnight rather drunk whilst others went on elsewere.

I didnt feel too bad this morning surprisingly   ..by the time I got up it was 9ish, Si had already been out and bought provisions for breakfast, made tea and put Eastenders on for me.  How spoilt am I?!    After egg and soldiers we showered, dressed and rode to Crystal.   Today we were doing an equipment spec and servicing our regulators which was great fun.  Kiwi (Instructor from NZ) showed us how to disassemble, clean and replace parts in them and then we had to put them back
together.  Our Cressi regs we later found out are supposed to be serviced after every 50 dives, no wonder they’ve been acting up. 

After playing around and cleaning the individual parts  both of our regs were serviced so then we started on the faulty Crystal ones.  I got a reg that had a leaky depth guage which was only a matter of replacing a couple of O rings and Si got to take apart an Aqualung first stage which didn’t look as complicated as our Cressi’s but complicated enough …the next regulator I looked had a broken hose which  just a matter of unscrewing and replacing and both mouth pieces were wet breathing, basically letting in water as you breath, so we broke those down and replaced the rubber

All in all it was a great afternoon.  It’s great to know how exactly everything works and how to fix it.
Tomorrow we’ll be looking at BCD’s and tanks

Early night for us tonight!!