Rescue Diver

[FreediveWI]

That is my favorite class to teach!

When I did my instructor training, in California, we were only the second group of instructors to be trained to teach the course, it was taught as a distinctive specialty before that and everyone wrote up their own course guide. It was really cool taking it from the guys who wrote the book.

It was also a real blast! We spent a week in the surf off of L.A. doing all of the skills, while being timed, and jumping through 6 foot waves. It was really cool how you could use those swells to throw a big guy right up on your shoulders to carry him out. You just needed to be warry of the occasional "salt-water nose enema". I also became familiar with the term "potato planter".

I rememeber them clearing everything with the lifeguards before we started our skills, but some old lady living in a huge house on top of the bluff activated ems anyhow becasue she thought there was a problem. :o

Have fun,

Jon