Monday, 30 July 2012

Cairns Open Water Diving Course: Pool Training

Training pool
We attended the first day course at CDC training centre, our instructor is a funny guy, Ethan. He made diving sounds so easy. 2 important things that we have to remember during diving which is easier than crossing the road (which means easier than looking left and right). But if you don't do it, like if you don't look left and right while crossing the road, you will be hit by a car. So the two important thing is : Breath and ascend slowly. Hmm..

The first day is always very exciting and scary. There are 9 in the class and all of us pass the diving medical checkup. If you didn't pass this stage, CDC will refund the course fee (the whole amount if not mistaken). Then the second stage, we must be able to swim 200 metres and float freely for 10mins. If fail, we would only get 75% refund. Both of us pass the test too! Although we had to struggle a bit since 'exercise=stamina' is a long forgotten habit for us :p


The classroom. We watch few videos on the tv then proceed for pool training for the first two days.


Second day, we practice some skills like air share. When your buddy is out of air, you have to pass the second stage to him then ascend back to the surface. Also, learned how to clear water in the snorkel mask which is actually quite easy. Just tilt your head up a little, then holding on to the upper rim of the mask, use your thumbs to lift the lower rim a little and blow using your nose. Then the water will come out easily. The nervous part of this is to remove the snorkel mask underwater and putting it back. Sounds easy but you can't open your eyes (which results the nervous part) and putting the strap back is difficult, then you forgot to breathe through your mouth then you panic and choke! 

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