Guam Day 32 - Diving School Day 1


 

3/16/2022 - Joan and I have been working on our PADI Dive certification, today was our in person class day. This process has been a couple weeks in the works, to become certified there are a few critical items to complete, there is book work and quizzes, in person review of the quizzes, a final test, and then two days of active diving where you work to sign off on critical skills. In many ways this is like going back to school, so the picture above is my back to school picture for 2022. 

MDA is just south of where Joan works, today I picked here up and we headed south for our in person review, quizzes and tests. Joan being the more recent test taker than I have (she is always over the bar, Im not sure I can jump that high), she kicked my booty and scored 6 points higher than I did. No, I am not bitter about it, well maybe a little bit but with the amount of salt water to come, I will let this one go. 

Saturday and Sunday this week will be spent in the water and learning to dive. We are super excited to get the chance to see what this underwater world is like and try something new together. Fingers crossed, we are hoping to get photos via our instructor, we will see. Once complete we will be certified as Open Water Divers, with the ability to dive in many places on the island, upto 60 ft down. Pretty cool new skills. 


Location: Piti, Guam

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