The New Divers Just Keep Coming!

On Tuesday I finished certifying Christian as an Open Water Diver. His girlfriend is an Advanced Open Water Diver and encouraged him to get certified. So, he did the eLearning course and finished up with me here at Columbus Isle. Congrats Christian!

Another New Diver!!

So today I finished the certification for another PADI Open Water Scuba Diver!! Congrats to Jonathan!! We did the class in 2 1/2 days and he was awesome. We saw a black tip reef shark on his second dive and about a dozen sting rays.
Congrats again!

My First Advanced Open Water Students...

So yesterday I finished teaching my first Advanced Open Water class for a father and son from San Francisco. We had a great night dive watching an octopus on Sunday night, Monday was our deep and fish id dives during which we went to 125 ft and saw both lion and scorpion fish. Tuesday was our drift dive which was beautiful and we saw 2 turtles and then our navigation dive which was easy and quick. Congrats to my first Advanced Open Water divers!!

Good times in Key Largo

Well, I'm on the Ocean Divers website on the IDC Graduates page. There are several pics of us in the chamber as well as on the boat and at our graduation party. Check them out at...

http://oceandiversidc.com/html/january_2008.html

The stack of cards grows...

I just checked the PADI Pros website and my Master Scuba Diver Trainer cert has gone through and I should be getting another card in the mail. I realized that I've accumulated a stack of certification cards in my 9 years(to the day!!) of diving. Wow, today is the 9 year mark! Wahoo!! Well, in the picture below is all the certification cards that I've got. The mouse is for size reference. More than half of the stack are current, meaning I've gotten in the past 6 months! Holy smokes!!