thank's Mike for your comment and offer of teaching...smile...

you are very nice!

Yoshito

I was out in the M.E. when the Gulf War started, had to leave for 6 months until it was all over. I was in Muscat a city in the Sultanate of Oman. After there i spent 5 years in the Turks and Caicos islands. Don't do too much diving up here, quite liked diving out of brockville in aug/sept when the river is toasty warm!

Middle east & Carribean diving wow. Must have been a adjustment  to the cold Canuk waters, Ill bet. I hope to get to the Red Sea soem day, I'll have to get in touch when things settle down over there. Too much sabre rattling with Iran & Israel right now , for my liking.

Mike D.

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No, it was the actual DIVE SHOP. It was the only job i could get after getting married to a canadian gal and moving here after 12 years in the middle east and caribbean diving.

You are correct. The slow demonstration will only come as a result of practice & complete comfort in the task.

Good morning. Going good so far. We've only had 2 sessions so far. Tonight we will go to the pool for an initial skills evaluation to determine where we need to improve to pass the course. I spent 30 min practicing (only had a partially full tank) all my skills. After going through them several times, I think I got the worst of the kinks worked out. It's not what would be considered pretty nor of instruction quality yet, but I was able to get through them without making a complete fool of myself.

Now that will be fun.  I went down there about 2 years and did just dive.  Lots of things to do.  I took an ATV ride for about 3-4 hours.  Hourseback ride and yes dove. 

Hey Mike,  if you get a once a year trip you should check out who is all going on the Black Beards trip in Sept.  We (they) still have opening.  It going to be fun.  And nice warm water. LOL

By the way the 1 one to send me a message was "Love200" I see she was one of your recent visitors.  Did she also send you a message?

That was the second one who sent me a message.  The only thing is I know they don't want an old man. so don't bother me.  LOL   Hey I see you starting diving about the same time as I did.  I started in 1974 in Calif.  What kind of diving do you have up there?

Yeah, that's one of those dilemmas I have, as a DM I should follow the standards, and I used to be a good boy and do everything they told me to do, but the more I learn and the more experience I get the more I start to question some of those standards.

I still dive with a snorkel whenever I have a student with me, although it's pretty hypocrite of me because I will dive with some of those students in the future on a fun dive, and they'll see me without a snorkel.