The PADI Rescue Course has to be the most fun of all the PADI courses, well, for the instuctors. Hehehehehehe. The students are learning how to react in diving emergencies, so we teach them in class, then go out for two days and run rescue excersices. Today I got to be a casualty.

When the first guy, just in snorkel and fins came out I was passive and unreactive. Right up untill he reachd me when I paniced and lunged for his mask. He swam away and I dumped my bouyancy and sank beyond his reach. The diver was next to arrive having been delayed putting on his kit. Another unfortunate, he did not anticipate that the appearenly unresposive diver (me) not moving and ling on the bottom would panic when aproached. I managed to snatch his regulator (the thing giving him air) out of his mouth and inflate his drysuit. He shot to the surface sharpish with nothing to breath and a lot too much air in his suit. I was nice enough not to react the second time he approched me (with quite a lot of caution I might add) but on the way up I dropped my regulator out of my mouth and gave him a bit of a panic trying to find it and stuff it back in my mouth before his casualty drowned. Four - Nil to me, I consider that a very succesful excersize, my only sorrow was that I couldn't reach his crack tank that Doc had told me about earlier and asked me to get if the opertunity presented itself. If I'd opened the valve on this little bottle of air, it would have very quickly filled his BCD with air and he would have shot to the surface and had a devil of a time shuting it off and getting all the air out again.

Somthing I have learned whilst diving, is that no hair product on earth can beat the amazing styling effect of Scuba Diving. Salty wet hair that dries in the sun and the wind gives a truley awsome look. I shall endevour to provide a photo at some point.