Master Scuba Diver (almost ...)

Friday is my last training! We begin with a Search & Recovery dive. I have the dive itself and plans together with Maruf the "lost" weight belt to find and bring to the surface. We do a briefing on the boat and then go into the water. When the anchor line I explain everything again briefly to Maruf and I stress that we seek a weight belt. Stupid! Maruf goes down and immediately swims away into the wild away the weight belt to look. After 10 minutes I Maruf back to the anchor line and now we go our plan to work: a U-shape on vinslagen compass and counting. Somewhere along the way goes wrong with the counting and we are hitting our planned direction. As soon as I have in mind we swim back to the anchor line and begin again. After an hour we find the weight belt and bring it with another liftbag to the surface. Nigel wants to help and tries liftbag with a long bamboo pole from the water level. But once he gets liftbag tilts and these can all air, weight belt and sinks again. Fortunately, I can grab him in time and with a fully inflated vest do I take it with the "booty" in the boat. Nigel does a debriefing and we see that I have some more time to prepare to spend (to avoid misunderstandings and "confusion" under water to avoid), but otherwise I have now successfully completed the course. If I just about to blow out 74 minutes of swimming and search "is" Pim of the boat and I have, in the context of my Rescue course, get him safely on board. Less than 2 minutes Pim is on the boat and I are "heavily injured" ankle care. And then the Rescue scenarios begin. Tina and Pim are underwater and Tina has a severe injury to her leg. While I try it underwater to reassure, keep pressure on the wound in her leg and prepared her to go upstairs, she has no air and she grabs my regulator from my mouth. If I have this situation under control, we go to the surface and hoisted them into the boat and then I can take care of her leg. Pim is now gone and the water is the "missing" diver. By Maruf I go again into the water and we find him "unconscious" at the bottom. I bring it up, remove his diving gear and he is on the boat and then hoisted me mouth to mouth and CPR can begin. The latter I do not have to do because at that moment Nigel is already in the water with his face downwards and the unconscious diver to the surface. I go again into the water, doing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in the water as I swim to the boat with him and remove his equipment. On the boat I give him, virtual, mouth to mouth resuscitation and chest compressions until after a minute or 8, happy self again breathes and has a heartbeat. I'm totally exhausted after this exercise and I thought I'd had .... Tina says I quietly just get at it when I'm gone again and Nigel Maruf swim .... At about 100 meters from the boat starts Nigel waving and calling and I grab my mask, snorkel and fins, take a large buoy and go into the water. Maruf is just "tired" and Nigel is in a panic. If I have them both afloat and quiet I drag them to the boat. And to have it out! I only have the theory exam and I am Rescue Diver and Master Scuba Diver. Back at the resort and Cecilia tell Emma that she will make a night dive and I decide to go tonight. Then I at least have a "fun dive" today! Tina asked if my theory exam at 16.30 can do, as they returned from her afternoon with the Open Water course. So I'm good with my stuff at 16.15 at the dive center. Unfortunately they only come back at 17.30 and then I'm already about to leave for my night dive. So no exam today. The night dive was very beautiful. We have several decorated crabs seen, a tiny bright orange frogfish, many shrimps and crabs. A night dive is really different than daytime dives. Not only you can see different animals, but you are even aware of a very small part of your environment, because only those in the glow of a lamp. Every time yet another special experience. After the night dive I help the guide, Agus, equally with the washing and cleaning up the stuff, because he is still half an hour working in pairs and we do it in 10 minutes. After a quick shower and at 20.15 I'm finally at the table. The Belgians sit at one table and six of us, today supplemented by an Australian who lives in Jakarta and a Dutch couple who just arrived, on the other. With new people to the talks once again only on fish and the underwater world, while six of them even though many other things discussed. So at the end of my stay, I always feel like I have less extensive tell my story to new people. Everybody will now only the management summary