Beautiful Spring! Let's go Diving!!

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Sunday 6th of May, 2018. Such a beautiful Sunday!! Blue sky, air temperature 24C. This sooooo rare for this area. It was too gorgeous to miss diving! We had 4 Open Water Diver Course students. How lucky they are!! When the weather is so good, everything seems so easy.

We normally come to Capernwray Diving Quarry for our training diving and some local pleasure divings. This quarry has good facilities; diver friendly cafe, good changing rooms, showers, meeting room, easy entry/exit, training platforms under water, etc. 
Visibility can be quite good as well. This Sunday could be more crowded; however, thanks to the Bank Holiday Monday. It was not too bad. We had plenty of rooms in training platform area, so we didn't have to squeeze ourselves too much for skill sessions.

When we organise courses, each instructor has maximum 3 students to look after. This Sunday, the instructor & students ration was 1:2, so it was quite good. When teaching in Malta, rather warm water, I had some occasions that I had 4 students; however, it was very rare. In order to keep the quality of the lessons, we do not like to let instructors have more than 3 students. Having more students is not easy for safety and also too cold for students to stay still under water while waiting for other team members to go through the skills.
My instructor friend was having 4 dives a few weeks ago. The water was still pretty cold and weather was not so great. What she did was to separate the group in two, and she took Group A for her 1st dive, Group B for her 2nd dive. Then again, Group A for her 3rd dive, and Group B for her 4th dive. By doing so, students did not have to stay in water too long. It may be very tiring for instructors, but she took the safety of the students as the top priority. 
I thought she was brilliant!
Diving cannot be some painful memories. It always has to be FUN! and of course SAFE!

When the weather is great like this weekend, it is also great to have some time to socialise with other Club Members.  We "accidentally" ended up with having social gathering in our local pub. :D 
DM Club members always love to have great time together!
Come dive with us. XX






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