Guests are divided into 2 boats today. One boat, with 5 guests, just go diving around Bunaken and Siladen and I'm on the road with 3 instructors: Tina, Nigel and Pim. I have a great morning training for the bow. 2 trainings Search & Rescue and Recovery training during the surface interval.
We sail to a dive site to the mainland by a sand next to the reef. I first dry-weather exercise, literally and figuratively, on the boat with knots and browsing patterns and then we go into the water. Tina and Nigel have a blue plastic cup or hidden in the sand and I must seek him by a circle with Pim-patroo to swim in the middle of the circle containing the line held. At each turn I must circle one meter taller. After 11 rounds, I find the cup, and got through the swim, 23 minutes at a time, all pretty tired.
Tina and Nigel now hide a weight belt with 8 pounds and Pim and I have our compass and by counting the number vinslagen a U-shape swimming. After 10 minutes we again bite. We exchange high fives and are now starting the last exercise of this session: how to increase the weight belt with a so-called liftbag. I tie the liftbag with a line to the deciduous belt and little by little into the air to breathe with my octopus liftbag stiigen liftbag the weight belt and slowly.
If we weight belt safely back on the boat we drink a few glasses of water, eat some sweet biscuits and Rescue will begin my training again. I must first boot from Nigel, a tired diver who plays on their own can come back to the boat, inside to drag a line with a buoy, a long bamboo pole and a law-suit. Then we go into the water and I Nigel and Tina respectively a tired diver, panicked diver and a play, to see the boat to talk, or dragging. If these exercises have been successfully completed we prepare for the 2nd Search and Recovery training. This time I have only a flared square search pattern and the number of swimming at compass vinslagen back to the blue plastic cup to find (but who remain lost here 
). If that angle after 27 turns and swim in total some 320 vinslagen succeed we exchange the high fives again. When the anchor of the boat is my last challenge, a weight belt of 18 pounds. The liftbag I get him to the surface and the guys on the boat hoist him aboard.
I come here a minute breathe at the surface and then we make a simple dip of 45 minutes on the sand and along the reef. It remains surprising what is alive in the sand: a snake-eel in a hole which we see only the head, nudi-branches in different beautiful colors, so actually very poorly camouflaged, clown fish, anemones, etc.
When we get back on the boat I have my own equipment disconnect and clean, because that part's all in a course (as we do, the usual fun dive guide all that for you) and then I fall asleep spontaneously on the foredeck during the retreat of half an hour. It was hard work this morning we fall right into the lunch, because it's already 14:30 and breakfast is a good 7 hours ago.
After lunch I jump in the always refreshing shower and then I needed to start my theory. 6 more reviews of each Knowledge 10 open questions are my job for the afternoon ...
At 17 hours leaves another boat called the Mandarin dive to do. You then just before sunset and the water goes to a piece of coral where Mandarin fish live (small and very colorful with a clear difference in size and color between males and females). If it really gets dark, and that happens here near the equator in a sloppy 20 minutes, a male and female come together from the reef up, pairs a few seconds (no comments ) And then shoot back into the coral. A magnificent spectacle. Not only for me today because I have all my knowledge reviews and tests finish.
I install with my ipod, a glass of water and a mango juice and PADI stack books on a lounge chair and start reading and especially writing. The latter, I almost forgotten over the years, I hardly write more by hand ... If it gets too dark in the lounge chairs I go to one of the dining and sitting at 18.30 is everything!
So long pants quickly because there are many mosquitoes incredible and I am very popular with the mosquitoes and then I deserve a beer!
Tomorrow a so-called off-gas day, I go to Manado for good coffee and supplies to complete. Tuesday continued with my last 2 dives for Search & Rescue Recovery and following skills. Rescue and possibly also my theory exam. So that is another busy day
