Over the course of the weekend I had to put my dive and teaching skills on display, to be evaluated and critiqued by two well respected dive professionals. They would assign everyone a list of skills with unknown problems that needed to be remediated. We had to perform demonstration quality skills to showcase our knowledge [...]
Category: Florida
Living in the Florida Keys and working as a Divemaster
Magic Time
The first day of the IDC Instructor Development Course, we all met in the classroom. I promptly went to the back of the classroom and selected a table in the corner. Why I do this, I do not know It's not about control but more about being tucked away hidden from the gaze of the [...]
IDC, The friends you get, not the ones you choose!
For the past 11 days, I have been eating, sleeping, breathing dive instruction. I am in the midst of my IDC, Instructor Development Course. For two weeks we train to learn how to instruct new divers. We learn from a Course Director and his role is to guide us through the process and exams. [...]
Sailing through Covid in the Keys
Nina’s New Home
Where will we go? What will we do? The life we had in Florida had been swept away. There would be no guiding for quite some time, no service industry. Our island had been hit hard, with the eye of the storm passing just a measly 20 or so miles from Marathon. We now had [...]
Fleeing Hurricane Irma
It was hot, so hot that the stickiness of the air made everything sweat. There was no wind, no breeze, no relief from the heat. We were working day after day putting away everything for our trip. Following the news, we learned that there was a hurricane way off in the Atlantic Ocean. Just a [...]
Social Media and Connectivity
Well, it's been a long two days of linking accounts, uploading content, and getting everything synced. But, we think we've got it well enough to publish. The easiest part was setting up a new Instagram and Sierra crushed that out in no time; linking our accounts and getting pictures for post. Next she created our [...]
Florida Life
Well Its been a crazy slow ride in Florida these past months. I have been working tirelessly to get my Divemaster Cert. This would be the beginning stages of the professional side of diving, allowing me to guide and accompany groups of divers and individuals on trips. I managed to crush out my Open Water, [...]
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