Fifth Lesson

2013-10-30

Hello everyone and welcome to this lesson’s reflection!

To begin with, everyone in my class actually thought that we were going to have our final exam today, even me, but there were some changed plans apparently.

Our teacher had decided that it would be best if we had the test after all of our confined water dives, which he thought would give us more practice. This basically meant that our test would be next week, which gives me much more time to practice, as I hadn’t actually practiced that much for this week.

However, lets move on to the lesson itself. We started off by meeting at the pool as usually, but this time we practiced things that mostly included taking off and on our gear underwater. We practiced to take of our BCD, weight belt and mask. I personally didn’t find anything that hard, but some things were more irritating than others, such as the mask replacement. I found the mask replacement the most terrible one, as when you now had taken on the mask, it was full of water and when you emptied it, it was just itching everywhere in the eyes due to the salt water.

Moving on, after we had done all of the replacement practices, we did a small skin dive. And for whoever doesn’t know, a skin dive is when you dive without your gear and only with the snorkel. Another thing about skin dives is that you are actually allowed to hold your breath, as you don’t breath compressed air. The main purpose of the skin dive was for us to learn how to dive with the snorkel on us, and then be able to clear it effectively when we reach the surface.

So, now it is just to practice for the test, and wish me good luck and I will tell you how it all went next week ;)