Three days of nerves and counting down finally led to the picture above, the graduation picture! From left to right Mel, Graham, George the PADI examiner and myself.
Graham practising on land some patterns for his Underwater Navigation speciality.
On Chaweng Beach we encountered this lovely shell, at first I thought it was a cowrie shell but I tend to lean towards a harp shell now or possibly a turban shell.
During the deep dive, Graham had to complete a timed task, first at the surface and than at depth to see what effect nitrogen narcosis has at depth. This picture is taken at around 27 meters depth.
During a dive at Sail Rock we saw this Giant Murray Eel, always an impressive sight.
A hermit crab at Sail Rock, great creatures to observe.
The whole group before the start of the clean up, hotel staff and divers combined.
Some of the smaller stuff we found, besides half a kayak, ropes, lots of plastic bags and other plastic items, shoes, clothes etc.
One of the many bottles out there. We brought back a few kilos of garbage and just didn't have enough bags to take more stuff with us out of the water.
On a regular base I do like to try 'unusual' food, and I most definitely had my share of strange food and some were probably an endangered species, but that was eaten by me before I became aware of their rare status or other problems those certain species were facing. 
Besides more presentations by me we also did some hands on practice during this EFRI course which made it a lot more interesting.
At the end of the course Graham enjoyed a short introductory tour at the Chamber which was enjoyable and interesting at the same time.
During the OWSI part of this IDC we did a bit more Confined Water work and Mel is demonstrating a deep water exit out of the Open Water diver course.
Knowledge Development was also on the schedule and Mel hit it off with her Project AWARE presentation.
Graham also enjoyed the classroom presentations, especially finding his way around in the PADI structure of presenting.
As usual we had some lovely lunches at World Resort during our breaks. Thanks for taking part Mel, Tom, Dijana and Graham, it was my pleasure!
Graham and Mel are taking part with Tom and Dijana looking over their shoulders as future IDCS Instructors. This picture shows them taking their theory exams as part of the preparation course.
Plenty of pool work was in the pipe line as well, skill circuits and workshops about control, rescue skills, CESA amongst others with more to follow.
Dijana being the Assistant Instructor during Tom's confined water presentation for his IDCS course.
As always, plenty of Rescue diver course exercise # 7, 'unconscious diver at the surface' practice. Mel trying to give the kiss of live to Graham.
Tom overlooking Graham's fin pivot as part of his CESA exercise.
It was hard work for them with immediately starting the 5 theory exams which they had to pass with at least an 80% score on each exam. They didn't have a score below 90%, so well done!
After lunch it went down to the nitty gritty and evaluation training started, during which they get to watch PADI scenario video's on Knowledge Development, Confined and Open Water presentations and they need to be within the PADI control scores.Specialty of the Month April 2010; Project AWARE Fish ID
