Last weekend was one of the busiest we have had at the Lodge so far this year. We spent three days with a group of 14 students, introducing them to temperate water diving, the Mikhail Lermontov and the PADI Advanced course.

Friday and Saturday were perfect days weather wise, with it cutting up rough on Sunday we headed back to Picton to finish the course and dive the Koi wreck. The students who had learn’t to dive in Vietnam, found that diving in temperate water was a bit more of a challenge, with wetsuits being thicker and therefore more buoyant and the visibility not so good. However after a slow start with the orientation dive on Friday, skills slowly developed and by the time a few dives had been completed, including  a night dive and navigation dive in near zero vis back in Picton, confidence levels and skills had improved dramatically.

Congratulations to those who completed their Advanced Open water course and thanks for diving with Go Dive. Also thanks to Nine for his sterling job in transferring the group backwards and forwards to Picton, Nelson and dive sites, as well as supervising the underwater activities and to Tomo for keeping us all feed and watered.

Safe diving

Brent

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