Carnival has arrived :-)

A great start to a nice busy week here at Mermaid Diving, a welcome back to Hermit who has joined us for our PADI Divemaster Internship, a welcome addition to the team, as Hermit spent 7 weeks with us here at Mermaid Diving last year he has just slotted straight back in to life here at the dive centre.

On Monday morning I headed down to the Marina with the Divemaster Interns Biff, Maik, Blenny and Hermit for the PADI Rescue Diver course.  Ned and Buzz both brand new Instructors were running their first course, they both did really well, running through all of Rescue exercises.

Then we all headed back off to the Dive Centre to start the PADI Open Water Diver course for Shilo.  We started with the confined sessions 1-3 in the afternoon, Shilo did really well and didnt struggle on any of the skills, the next day we completed the final confined sessions for Shilo before heading to Abades to complete his PADI Open Water dives one and two, we were joined by his Mum Michelle who completed her Scuba Review with Ned before joining the dives.  They both did really well and it was great to see Shilo improve even from dive one to two.
In between the dives Ned, Buzz and I were looking at the Rescue Scenarios for Biff who did really well on Rescue exercise 7, and then his Search for the missing diver was very well executed.  Well done Biff!
Whilst I headed off to the hospital to get some good news about my eye, I am still back in the water , Lee completed the PADI Open Water Diver course for Shilo, off they went to Las Eras and Yellow Mountain, again Shilo did really well, before returning to the shop to complete his Open Water exam, he passed with flying colours.
Well done to Maik and Blenny for working hard to complete their Rescue diver Scenarios with Ned and Buzz, and of course more stamina fun for the gang, its great to see that they are all improving with the stamina.
Michelle and Shilo were really excited to do a last dive here in Tenerife with the Turtles at El Puertito, they had a great morning out on their dive and were happy to have seen three Turtles while they were there.
The end of the week and we were all excited about Carnical, Ned, Buzz and I stayed back at the Dive Centre, while Hermit, Vicky, Biff, Dudley, Maik and Blenny headed off to El puertito to play with the Turtles.  They had an amazing time and got back just in time to prepare to head off to Carnival.  We all had an amazing evening at Carnival all dressed up as Crocodiles….. looking forward to next week