Its Techy Time

Well the day as arrived we landed in Malta on our quest for the Tech Deep Cert. the hotel is not bad and Dave's broken out the sandals! 1st day tomorrow, we are going to be completing all the paperwork and setting up all the gear. Ron

Day 2: passed first part of the exam today and we finally hit the water, local shore dive near the dive centre off the beach. So we enter the water from the shore with a 10 litres under each arm and two 12's on your back and gave the people looking from the beach a good laugh as we floundered around in the surf, once in the water i could not get down so i had to add 2kgs of weight to the belt. Dive's 1 and 2 out the way more exams tonight and three more to do tomorrow..

Day 3: Well today we set up the kit and finally got in the water.

Dive One: we did a weight check Dave and i needed extra to hold the hover, skills included on this one was a 1 min hover, a shutdown, which was a complete mess, i spent most of the time with my mask in the sand! but i did it, a bit of long hose sharing and team assisted shut downs.

Dive Two: full shutdown, stage removal and putting back on, SAC check, SMB deployment the right way, this time the shutdown went much better!

Tomorrow we start the no mask stuff Great i cant wait

Ron