Australia's Newest Dive Instructor

As of yesterday I am Australia's newest dive instructor. I absolutely smashed all my exams getting over 90% on everything, and probably shocking everyone else doing their exams by writing both theory exams in less time than it took anyone else to finish even 1 exam.

There were 10 people in total doing their instructor exams. Everyone managed to pass with only a few people having to do remakes on any part. We were divided into 2 groups for the exams. The 3 of us from FNQ Dive plus 1 Japanese guy were in one group and the 6 people from ProDive where in the other group. The examener actually told us afterwords that he felt that our group was a lot better than the other one. I would probably have to give the credit to this to our instructor, Keith Cardwell, simply because he probably taught us every trick in the book that he has learned in his very long career in the dive industry.

Now that I'm done my instructors I have about 10 days before I can actually start to work, so in the mean time I'm going to be doing my Master Scuba Diver Trainer course, which will allow me to teach a number of specialty types of diving. We are going to be doing Deep diving, which means I'll be allowed to more or less go as deep as I want, well to roughly 60m at which point breathing air is no longer safe do to getting bent, and nitrogen narcosis. We are also going to be doing Night diving, which is pretty much just like it sounds which is to dive at night. We are also going to be doing Nitrox training, so I can use Nitrox and teach people to use it, the advantages of which are that you can extent the time you can stay down for by almost double assuming you don't go too deep with it because once again breathing Nitrox at too great a presure becomes toxic. We are also hopefully going to be heading down the coast to go diving on the SS Yongala, which is a really famous wreck, it is a cruise ship that sank in 1911. We will also be doing a handful of other specialties though none that are as interesting.

I will also be in the search of a job now that I'm all done my training, so for the next while I'm going to have to be out there doing a lot of knocking on doors to see what I can find. I'm hoping I will be able to find a job on a live abored dive boat though I don't want to get my expectations up too high.