OWSI Day 4

The day started off like the others with lectures and presentations. The great thing about all of this is that coming here well prepared has made it possible for me to actually learn more and work on refining what I know rather than getting all of this information for the first time. After the morning lectures it was off to lunch and the "Pro Dive II". Nice boat great crew and excellent dives. No this was not for fun.... oh, okay it was a blast! We headed out to the "Tracy" A nice wreck in 75 feet of water, hehe I got to 77 feet around the hole created by the water flow around the hull. Great swim throughs and lots of fish. It was fun to get to the up side of the current and drift back over the wreck. Now that is what flying is like. Very cool. A beautiful 30 minute dive and up to the safety stop hanging on the line. More like hang gliding... hang on or swim to shore...

We changed tanks and headed in to a nice reef off just off shore a mile or so and headed in to do some "work". The skills were Hover and Underwater Compass Navigation out and back. Control, observe, correct and encourage...
Hover Score: 4.8
Underwater Nav Score: 4.8

The awesome training that I have received and the hard work is really paying off. Knock out the skills and swim the reef. Did I mention that this is the first time that I have dived off of the east coast of Florida?!? What amazing diving! I am going to set up trips and trip and training packages... this is an amazing resource that we have to enhance the fantastic diving that we have in the Gulf. I can describe the dive on the reef as a mini-Roatan dive.

More on training later,

Carl