OWSI Day 5 and my "Day Off"

Ok, so the post is a bit late. Yesterday was another great day in my OWSI course. We had lectures and then it was time for my Rescue Knowledge Review presentation. The presentation went well with a score of 4.7. I have learned a bunch here and will carry that through to the IE tomorrow. We finished all of the paperwork and I am ready for the IE. We had a late lunch and then I went back to the room and studied. Resistance is futile...

Today I got up bright and early and took Bill Cole up on his offer to check out his new boat the Sea Experience II. I was the only guest on the boat, Bill and the guys took great care of me. It was a beautiful flat day out on the Atlantic and was 78 degrees when I hit the 71 degree water for the first of two great drift dives. The first site was "Hog Heaven" an upside down barge and a large radio tower. The name comes from the "Large amount of hogfish on the site"... sorry didn't see any, but the other fish were there in abundance. Viz was 40 plus feet. 70 feet of water and just three divers in the water. We recovered an anchor at the end of the dive and headed for the next site. "Will's Way" is a nice patch of sand in about 30 feet surrounded by reef. Will is an old Course Director that fought and complained that he did not have a great training site and that his minions were to find one for him. Well, Will got his way.... thus the name. We hit the water and were greeted by a nurse shark just cruising by. We then started drifting south with the gentle current. This time there were just two of us and millions of fish. We were chased by a blue trigger fish and we chased back... hehe, he just kept coming back. From the stories that I have heard I did not want to get bit, even with my extra layer of neoprene. After an hour we surfaced and the boat plucked us out of the ocean. Great Day.

Back to the room to study and make lunch. Ok, it was the other way around. My brain is full and I decided to get up here and post. So here you go. I will post the IE days and be back Sunday.

See you soon,
Carl