Week 8, Day 39

After finding out that the entire class failed the Surface Supplied Top-up Exam, we began our dives. The first dive was In-water rescue assessment. Basically you observe the diver and if he appears to be on conscious:
1. Inform the surface
2. Approach the diver (making sure it is safe to do so)
3. Close his bailout if he is breathing
4. Bring diver to surface holding his harness and using his suit inflation as a buoyancy aid
5. When on surface bring him to safety

It seems obvious but if like me, you had somebody bigger and heavier to bring up, it is very tiring and by the end of the dive my legs were shaky with all the swimming.

The second dive was meant to see how we can cope with zero visibility. Under the pier there are a series of ropes that form a square. Using another rope to divide each section into strips, in turns we each had our masks taped up and were given the task of searching each area for certain objects. CLAUSTROPHOBIC PEOPLE COULD NOT DO THIS as it can feel like wearing a box on your head underwater.