After successfully completing her Rescue diver course Iris has decided to become a PADI Divemaster - here is how week one went!
So, I happily decided to go for the PADI Divemaster, after I finished my PADI Rescue Diver Course at Bali Dive Cove. You want to know, how this one was? Read my previous post about my PADI Rescue Diver Course here.
I´m looking forward to 274 pages of reading the Divemaster Manual, watching videos, going through knowledge reviews with my Instructor and 2 final exams I also have to complete stamina exercises in the water, workshops, skill circuit, mapping a dive site, learning how to supervise dives and assist in courses, much more and of course DIVING ❤
Sounds a lot, but I´ll take my time and do the course over the next 4 weeks. I don´t want just to be certified, I want to be ready for my coworkers, Instructors and of course my future guests!
[Divemasters] support the instructor to make their jobs easier and give them more time to take care of students. They listen and pay attention, take care and organize to make everyone feel great. That´s EXACTLY what I want to do!
Let´s start reading! I suddenly catch myself grinning like a 'Honigkuchenpferd' (that´s the German version of the Cheshire cat) as I read chapter 1. The Divemasters in the book help their guests with little stuff and make their days! They support the instructor to make their jobs easier and give them more time to take care of students. They listen and pay attention, take care and organize to make everyone feel great. That´s EXACTLY what I want to do! Of course, it´s going to take some time to be able to anticipate the needs of guests and get used to the instructors way to do everything and habits, but I´ll get there!
Before I can assist, I have to finish chapter 1-5 and talk through them with Jordan. I enjoy our sessions very much, she´s a very good mentor. Patient, very helpful and fun. I can learn a lot from her 10 year experience and she also takes my questions, thoughts, concerns, ideas and celebrations about baby steps serious.
Meanwhile I can join my very first muck dive and fall in love with nudibranchs (what´s that, you ask? Amazing creatures! (Check them out here) I also participated in Fun Dives and watching Discover Scuba Divers taking their first breaths under water. A wonderful feeling to see someone exploring a whole new world! And of course, being myself and also a Divemaster in Training, I try to help with small stuff, like hair ties and head bands, tea and coffee with and without milk and sugar, taking sunrise pictures , and try to make the day even more enjoyable.
Here is an Ornate ghost pipefish we saw while muck diving taken by Beto!
One of my sunrise pictures from the USAT Liberty in Tulamben.
Let´s go swimming! To be a PADI Divemaster I have to be in a reasonable shape and prove my stamina. We´re going for a swim. And be “we”, I mean “I”, because Jordan has to take my times and of course, cheer me on, as I swim and snorkel swim until my legs burn and my heart pounds. Even more, when I hear my surprisingly good results. After the swim, I took a relaxing 15 minute floating/water threading and enjoyed my very well earned every day lunch, mie goreng (fried noodles), my favorite choice, and then, a wonderful nap….
See you next week for more!