Distant hills in front of El Galleon.
Pork and beans and an egg for breakfast today. I met up with Alli, Grace, and Nick at around 8:30 AM to continue Nick’s Open Water course. The goal for the day was to finish all Nick’s Confined Water pool sessions and do Open Water dive 2 in the afternoon. By early afternoon, we completed the rest of the Confined Water pool sessions. Nick was a natural doing a lot of the skills in the pool. In fact, I felt silly demonstrating and having him do simple skills like clearing a snorkel.
At 3 PM, Alli, Grace, Nick, and I went out to do Nick’s Open Water dive 2. Whereas the first dive’s purpose was just to acclimate the student diver to the underwater environment, dive 2 is to have the student perform skills they learned in the pool now in the open water. We dived at Sabang Bay which has a nice sandy bottom for students to play around in and do their skills without disturbing coral. Some of the skills we did were mask clearing, buoyancy control, using the alternate air source and the controlled emergency ascent. Nick performed all the skills with ease.
Grace gives the wink of approval.
After the dive, I went back to my room and cleaned up a little. Up until happy hour at Point bar, I just hung around El Galleon on my computer. By 6:30 PM, I went to Point bar to get my happy hour beer. Maziar, Grace, Vergie, and a lot of the Asia Divers crew joined me.
Large gecko out to feast on the swarm of insects.
While we were just having some beers, a small swarm of flying insects invaded the bar. There were so many of them that a large gecko came out to devour them; it was a feast for all the geckos. Grace and I managed to take control of the music for a while. Good night.
- jason
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