It's been a busy week for all of Orca. On the weekend we had Nimrod & Jasmine qualifying as Open Water divers, Danni and Ben qualifying as Dry suit divers and Fred, Travis, Laurynas and Arron qualifying as Advanced Open Water divers. There was a huge effort from both students and staff.
Monday and Tuesday entailed a lot of soggy kit being washed,checked and put away. We were in the deep pool on Tuesday with some more DSD's from Writtle college, who will be going on a trip to Egypt next year with us. We also had a new Open Water course starting plus a few people getting in to test their skills before heading up to the Farne islands!
On Wednesday, Janie was putting away all of the kit whilst Gary was in The Basildon Upper Academy talking to the pupils about self-esteem and his own experiences. Gary mentors in this school every day and often holds these events. Several pupils had thanked Gary and said that his talk helped them to understand a lot about themselves and their affect on others.
Thursday was a very busy day with customers hiring kit for the weekend. We also had to get kit ready for the pool night at South Woodham Ferrers. The Seal Team carried on as usual with one Open Water course and a few swimmers. This was a great opportunity for our trainee Dive Masters to get in and practice some skills as there was not many people in the water. It also meant that they could watch the instructors teach and learn their particular teaching methods.
Friday consisted of putting away kit and getting kit ready for people heading up to the Farne Islands. Everybody was very excited even though they had a long 6 hour drive! Everybody arrived safely and met for dinner.They then headed to bed for an early night!
Saturday and Sunday were fantastic for those up in the Farne Islands despite testing weather conditions on Saturday resulting in us only doing 1 dive. Everybody enjoyed themselves and commented on the great atmosphere. Sovereign Divers are wonderful and ensured that everybody was happy. Lots of seals were spotted as well as, crabs, lobsters, nudibranches, starfish, sun-starfish and lots more! We also had Jamie down at Nemes with Emily and Heather doing their navigation dive in order to qualify as Advanced Open Water divers. They were then joined by, Zoe, Faith and Angelina who wanted to log up some dives! The girls were all from last years Writtle trip and have continued diving with us since, some of which are now Rescue divers!!
Gary and Ian S were also in RAF Lakenheath talking to some staff from the US Airforce about running an Open Water course with them next year. It was great to talk to all of the staff and get to know them. We look forward to working with them in the future
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