ERT Unit 43 Open & Advanced SCUBA Training
August 16th, 2010
The past week the aquatics dive masters and past aquatic graduates (dive instructors) taught Unit 43′s ERT open water and advanced open water SCUBA training. The week started Sunday night with class, the day they arrived, and continued to the next morning when they were in the water and doing the skills.
Jordan Harvel (Instructor for CETI Dive corp.), a graduate of ALERT Aquatics, oversees the in-water skills in the shallow end of the pool.
With a class of 25 students and 7 Dive master/Instructors the week went well and everyone adapted quickly from class room teaching to in water practicals. Each day the students dove twice to get the appropriate amount of time underwater to be able to be certified.
Jed Backus shows his students the correct way to find their regulator in case of it being pulled or knocked out of their mouths.
They all did extremely well. The dive masters worked fast and quickly taught all the appropriate skills for open and advanced SCUBA, including underwater navigation, night diving and deep diving. The students all excelled each day to learn the required skills in hopes of completing the required certifications to make it to a public safety diver this next week through NAPD.
