Saturday 03-02-2018 activities

It is still a slow season with divers either leaving or arriving over the weekend   and those diving daily taking a day off!!  so to keep busy we have;
* Nathalie who has completed the EFR  course yesterday 02-02-2018 and today  starts the  Rescue Diver theory . Tomorrow she starts with water skills.

Nathalie with supplies of coffee and chocolate biscuits whilst she watches the PADI course DVD

Not the best image but the Rescue DVD is 125 minutes long! so several stops and Instructor intervals required

Meantime as we have no boat dive this morning   the boys got busy collecting Granitic boulders for the beach front entrance .  They are heavier than they may look

David, Genario and  Dean

Big  boy Dean gets the biggest and heaviest  rock of them all

Keeping Darius busy are the 2 girls doing the D.S.D.  Introduction to SCUBA course with shallow water boat dive this afternoon.

Darius doing the theory before going  into the  BERJAYA hotel swimming pool for skills practice  

 This afternoon will have  4 divers going to Corsair reef and Twin barges wreck 

PADI EFR and Rescue course

Today started the training of Nathalie  for the PADI EFR and Rescue  certification .
Follow this   training  below :

Meet Nathalie an MCSS volunteer and EFR , Rescue diver student

Techniques to Exiting an unconscious diver  to be practiced this weekend

Dive sites from the air

Seeing the dive sites from the air makes it so much easier to understand the dive plan . Luckily Underwater Centre have their own  microlight aircraft  that has been used for  marine studies  by Seychelles Marine Conservation Society . Take a look a a few  shown below

Whale Rock close to the shore line and Horseshoe Rocks farther out

Conception Island  ...we usually dive the south point 

The sun is shinning , the sea is calm

The NW season is always very changeable but now we have a sunny sky and clam seas  .
 See below some images of Seychelles Underwater  marine life .

Banded Butterfly fish

Bat Fish

Sweet Lips

Powder Blue Surgeon Fish

Dive Boat underway

Emperor Angel fish

Nurse Shark

Lion Fish

Keeping busy on rainy days

 There is always something to do in a Dive Resort ....... things that don't get done for too long !! .

Keeping bust on rainy days

Checking snorkel  integrity in the pool ..all 19 snorkels checkout OK

Work experience from French Internatonal School

We love when young people ask to do work experience with us .usually they are already our Jr OW Divers  and want to know more about how a Dive Resort works

Jr OW diver Olga

Olga joins us for 1 week and has already experience:
*  Hydro static tank testing at Seychelles Bureau of Standards.........visual tank testing is every year and hydro static testing every 4 years  on each and all of our  160 tanks!!
* Pool skills refreshing session and AOW compass practice for her next course
* insisting boat skipper for the morning  2 dives ...........came back a bit sun burnt!!
* compressor operations with DMT Nicole
All this in 2 days so lets see what the rest of the week brings

meet more of the staff

We  have a few more photos for you  of our present staff 

New Instructor DARIUS

Nickman .....skipper and Rescue diver / underwater guide