Back again, not to worry

Hi everyone, its been a few days so apologies to those hanging on a knife edge for the next instalment!

Well I have been pretty busy I can tell you. I have managed a few more exams so I am really pleased. Physiology, Dive Skills and the Environment and Dive Equipment. I got scores of 95%, 90% and 75% respectively. Struggled a bit on Dive equipment because the exam still tests on J valves and transducers but they are not included in the encyclopedia anymore so just scraped a pass. But, as they say, a pass is a pass.

Last Saturday we dived at La Herradura, no sunshine was a first but hopefully not to be repeated situation. I assisted Antonio as we led a group of English guys from Sevilla round the dive site Tres Picos ( 3 Peaks ). Visability was good at around 10-15 metres and lots of varied life. I even spotted an Octopus under one of the overhangs.

Yesterday I took full advantage of Skysports with a football super sunday in my apartment!

Tomorrow it looks like we are back off to Gibraltar with 4 divers, 2 English and 2 Dutch. I quite like this site as there are loads of wrecks sunk purposely for an artificial reef project. I am thinking of using a couple for my Dive Site Mapping exercise I have to complete sometime soon.

Thursday we will be back to La Herraduras but the difference being is that it will be me leading. Think I shall be revising the map a few times over the next few days. I have heard that losing divers does not go down very well!

I will try not to leave it as long next time before my next update so stay tuned...

Just starting to find Wifi...

Hi all, sorry for the delay but I am only just starting to find the wifi signals round where I am based in Mijas.

Since I last added to the blog I have been diving in La Herradura.  It is a very picturesque bay with a lovely beach and quite clear water.  That is until you get to about 10 metres then the viz gets a bit poor.  I have been finding though that the viz is getting better by the day.

Just had a day off so it was spent having a walk around and seeing whats what round here, also spent a long time looking for a good wifi signal!

On my travels I also went into my local Lidl for a bit of food shopping and found that most of the products in there are exactly the same as back home,  nice and cheap as well which will really help now I am not earning.

Just waiting for people to get home so I can try out this wifi and get speaking through skype.

Tomorrow is classroom day, hopefully going to try and get some exams done - physics and physiology of diving.  Learnt some great stuff whilst I have had my head in the books.  Did you know that it is not the bodies need for Oxygen that makes us breathe?  The body actually instructs the diaphragm to push the lungs to expel carbon dioxide and as a result we take in oxygen as the diaphragm pulls back.

Will let you know how my classroom goes...