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I attended the BSAC Advanced Instructor Course in Weymouth this weekend and can thoroughly recomend it to anyone who is eligable to attend.
I drove down Fri morning and had a quick warm up dive with Andy the skipper of "Maverick" on the Hood which was superb in a flat sea with 6m of vis, nice relaxing dive even if i did mess up Izzy's directions on the swim through i wanted to do.
Sat morning was a bit of theory stuff followed by lesson planing in groups. We then went out a did our first lessons in Balaclava Bay, 1 70min dive at 12m with about 5m of vis and we got four lessons done. A demo lesson by a National Instructor followed by 1 from each of the students, so we did 2 compass lessons, a lift and shift lesson and mine which was a jackstay search.
This exercise i found very impressive with the amount we got done, although with all the students being Advanced Divers and Open Water Instructors it was a bit unrealistic compared to teaching less experienced divers.
On return to shore we planned Sundays lessons, plus my group got to do the "Passage planing" for the trip out on Sunday morning, a very good revision session on Chartwork.
Sun morning we went out to get another demo lesson from an NI followed by ours on the Binnendyk, a basic wreck in 28m with about 5m of vis. However on the way out we each had to take a 10 min lesson (I did Cardinal Buoys), and we were kept on our toes by the 6 NI's constantly asking us questions on anything and everything on the boat. I made the mistake of idally standing next to a rebriether, and was hit with a string of questions on how it would effect the Dive Marshalling.
In the water lessons continued with me teaching distance lines and then being a student for a mid water individual DSMB deployment, which was very well taught by my South African buddy. On the surface it was question time again as we covered teaching techniques for boat handling lessons. Then ashore for debriefs.
A very good weekend and a great opertunity to exchange views and techniques with other instructors and get outstanding demonstrations and critique and advice from some of BSAC's most senior and experienced instructors.
I would strongly recomend it to any BSAC OWI/AD out there.
Now all i have to do is shed loads of revision for the exams.
Regards
Paul
Guys
I attended the BSAC Advanced Instructor Course in Weymouth this weekend and can thoroughly recomend it to anyone who is eligable to attend.
I drove down Fri morning and had a quick warm up dive with Andy the skipper of "Maverick" on the Hood which was superb in a flat sea with 6m of vis, nice relaxing dive even if i did mess up Izzy's directions on the swim through i wanted to do.
Sat morning was a bit of theory stuff followed by lesson planing in groups. We then went out a did our first lessons in Balaclava Bay, 1 70min dive at 12m with about 5m of vis and we got four lessons done. A demo lesson by a National Instructor followed by 1 from each of the students, so we did 2 compass lessons, a lift and shift lesson and mine which was a jackstay search.
This exercise i found very impressive with the amount we got done, although with all the students being Advanced Divers and Open Water Instructors it was a bit unrealistic compared to teaching less experienced divers.
On return to shore we planned Sundays lessons, plus my group got to do the "Passage planing" for the trip out on Sunday morning, a very good revision session on Chartwork.
Sun morning we went out to get another demo lesson from an NI followed by ours on the Binnendyk, a basic wreck in 28m with about 5m of vis. However on the way out we each had to take a 10 min lesson (I did Cardinal Buoys), and we were kept on our toes by the 6 NI's constantly asking us questions on anything and everything on the boat. I made the mistake of idally standing next to a rebriether, and was hit with a string of questions on how it would effect the Dive Marshalling.
In the water lessons continued with me teaching distance lines and then being a student for a mid water individual DSMB deployment, which was very well taught by my South African buddy. On the surface it was question time again as we covered teaching techniques for boat handling lessons. Then ashore for debriefs.
A very good weekend and a great opertunity to exchange views and techniques with other instructors and get outstanding demonstrations and critique and advice from some of BSAC's most senior and experienced instructors.
I would strongly recomend it to any BSAC OWI/AD out there.
Now all i have to do is shed loads of revision for the exams.
Regards
Paul