Today my two sons and I began our Advance Open Water Certification thru Splash Dive Center. We held our classroom phase on Thursday and today we performed three dives at Millbrook Quarry. Our focus was Peak Buoyancy Control, Navigation and Search and Recovery. It was a long day, but a very fun one. The dives were very relaxed as we were certified divers with few basic skills being tested.
Sunday was Deep Dive day and Wreck Dive day. Conditions were a might bitter at depth. I logged 42 degrees at 62 feet. The 7mm suit was at its limits for any length of time. Great experience as our instructor had us perform simple tasks at depth to understand the difficulties. We were tying knots for this demonstration. While the desire to accomplish the task and get back to warmer waters was great, it was offset by the narcosis effect of depth and the cold!
All three of us certified Advanced Open Water. The next step is Rescue Diver. We'll do an interlude dive in the Bahamas first but we have the end of August targeted for Rescue Diver!
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