It's Been a While

Hello all! I think its been a few months now. Sorry about the delay I
hope the photos have been interesting. After all this time I am finaly
a Divemaster. It was a fun and educational journey. The Stamina test
was especially memorable and extremly challenging. It consists of a
800 yard swim with fins but no arms , 12 min of tread and the last
two minutes your arms are out of the water, then a 400 yard swim with
nothing, and then a 100 yard tired diver tow. All in a row! No
breathers! Needless to say I though I was a goner. I did get a 18 out
of 20 which I'm pretty satisfied with. Then later that day we had a
surprise rescue senario pulled on us.
Over the radio I heard the crackle of PJ the shop boss yell,
"Emergency in the Bay, looks like two people in distress to the left
of the channel! This is not a drill!"
Boom training kicked in and we all jumped to action. First on scene
was Bob, Kristen and I. Your suposed to pace your self to have enough
energy to preform the rescue but after a 400 yard swim I was beat. We
still had to get them to shore. But at least now we had them and they
were our shop instructors Matt and Rags and fine. But the drill
continued to shore. I started the rescue breaths and was going to
continue them until I drowned but the team came together and Bishoff
came in to support so we switched off he gave breaths while I caught
my breath and we went back and forth while Juan another DMT
(Divemaster Trainee) pushed the unconsious diver. We got close enough
to shore where Lauren was waiting in the water and took over the
rescue breaths as we all helped bring them to shore. We did it! The
victims were now pacients and the drill was cut. Happy in the success
of well preformed drill I was totaly spent from the stamina test to
this drill I'm lucky to not have passed out!