Belated Sunday Catch Up!

Sorry we were late this week!

We had a slow start at the beginning of last week, so used this time to check and put away kit from the previous weekend’s dives. Gary was back in Basildon Academies for the After School Diving Club on Monday and also had the Basildon Academies’ BTEC Sports class’ last diving pool session on Friday.

On Tuesday, Gary went to the Children’s Support Service at the Jupiter Centre in Hadleigh. This is to run a PADI Open Water course and work with young people who have become disengaged with education system. The first day consisted of the first theory session, paperwork and an overview of how the course will be run. But, there was no pool night on Tuesday evening in Basildon, as Fred had another film shoot in. However, this gave us a head start to begin sorting out the summer kit! As we have just finished a long winter without many dives, all of our kit has to assessed before we can begin using it again. Gary and Janie made a good start with this process on Tuesday and Wednesday last week!

Last Thursday we had a very busy night in South Woodham Ferrers pool for the evening, where Gary was running the SEAL Team. Gill started a new open water course, whilst Rhonda and Dave continued with their current open water courses. And on Friday, Gary was preparing for the weekend just past.

Rhonda spent Saturday with Steve H. at Nemes to complete his Advanced Open Water course. Steve completed his first four dives in the Red Sea on the recent liveaboard trip, however there was no suitable location to do the navigation part of the course where the trip took place. Steve therefore finished this part of the course in the UK on Saturday with Rhonda! On Sunday, Rhonda went back to Nemes with Tony, Richard and Fernando, who are all newly qualified rescue divers, who after helping out as ‘victims’ on a recent rescue course, identified they would all like to become dive masters. Therefore, they spent Sunday with Rhonda logging up five dives, whilst also gaining more knowledge of the site, for future experience.

Gary is off to Cornwall this weekend to the annual Scuba Fest! Orca has been going to Scuba Dive Fest for the last four years and everyone always enjoys their time there! This year we will be diving at Porthkerris on Saturday and Sunday, in a boat called Kitten! If there are any questions about or prior to the trip, do not hesitate to get in contact and next week we will be posting a full review about the weekend!

Nick will be in the dive centre on Saturday this week if you need anything, but we will be closed on Monday due to the bank holiday! Next week, we will be back to normal in the pools on Tuesday and Thursday, so if anyone wants to jump in just give us a call!