This is oxygen, it will help you. May I give it to you?

We are certified Rescue Divers now. We finished our three days course today.  The course was quite exhausting. We started course with PADI-video, reading book and doing 10 pages of knowledge reviews. On the second day we did rescue skills training at the dock (2m deep water). That included all kind of skills how to help tired, paniked or non-responding diver. We trained for example towing, rescue breathing and also underwater training. It took about 6 hours to do all this (there was 4 of us in the course). So our foreheads are quite burned... ;) 

Today we did two boat dives where we had practical emergency scenarios. There were an instructor and two dive master trainers we had to rescue all the time. They jumped off from the boat, panicked, went out of air, took our regulators off, tried to ascend too quickly, vomited on Olli etc... There was also missing diver scenario. I found him first from the bottom (7m). He was non-responding so I had to take him to the surface and tow him to the boat while doing rescue breaths thought a pocket mask and taking both's equipment off same time. On the boat I gave him oxygen and did CPR until he came responding.

It is surprising how hard rescuing is. Only towing on the surface is hard and when you have to give rescue breathing same time it's even harder. All other students and DM-trainers were men so they were all bigger than me so that make it even harder for me of course. 

After boat dives we did the final exam. It went well, I got 46 / 50 and Olli 48 / 50 points. And now we are certified rescue divers.

The reason why we did the course is basically now we are able to do dive master course if we want. And of course we learnt good skills which make scuba diving more safe and comfortable to ourself. And of course if something happens while we are doing fun dives (which we will do lots during our trip) we know how to help. It is important to know how to help in a safe way. Safe for the victim AND yourself.

Let's see what's happening here next...

-Maija

We had to read a couple of books and do 10 pages of knowledge reviews.

You can buy 100% coconut water in the bottle. It's good to have a bottle of it available while doing knowledge reviews.

Just graduated Rescue divers with instructor Ashley.