A great welcome to the team at Mermaid Diving and I am already an Open Water Diver :-))

I cannot believe week one went so fast! It seemed like only yesterday I landed in Tenerife and now I don’t want to leave, I hope the rest of my 7 weeks don’t fly past like this one has.

On my first day at the dive shop, I was introduced to the whole team, everybody was really nice and welcoming. Randall showed me around and showed me where we keep all the dive equipment. Melissa gave me my first two dive books to read, and I watched the Open Water DVD.

The next day I was meant to start my PADI Open Water Diver Course but Patrick, my dive instructor, had ear trouble so he couldn’t go into the pool which was fine because I had a lot of reading to do and I seemed to progress through the book pretty quickly, later in the day Patrick took me down to the pool to do a 10 minute tred water and a 400m swim, which made me realize just how long it had been since my last swim! fortunately my apartment is right next to the pool so I can go and practice or cool down after work.

Wednesday and Thursday I spent a lot of time in the pool doing my first 4 open water confined water dives, Patrick made everything look easy and it was a pleasure to learn from him, I also finished my first book Thursday so it was time for the open water exam, and all that reading paid off as I got 94% in my exam!

Friday I went out on my first two dives in the ocean, Patrick took Randall, who is here learning to become a instructor, Flounder, who like me is a dive master in training, and me out to Abades, which was a really nice reef dive where we saw penalty of fish and a eel or two
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On Saturday I had a day off as the shop was closed so I had a chance to catch up on some well need shopping.

Sunday I did my open water dives 3 and 4, for these dives we went down to the mariner in Golf Del Sur, we went down the left hand side of the wall, on these dives we saw many types of fish including two types of Atlantic damselfish.

I can’t wait to learn more and experience more dives in my second week here at mermaid diving, where the sun is all was shinning and there’s hardly ever a cloud in the sky.