Dive awards

[Chip]

Max takes an award for the youngest ORCA certified diver in our group. I believe he finished his ORCA / PADI Open Water certification when he was 15. He recently completed his PADI Advanced Open Water diver and Enriched Air Nitrox diver.

Misty takes an award for fastest ORCA diver. I told her to swim at a slow relaxed pace on her navigation adventure dives. She took off like a rocket. No one could keep up with her (Tucker, Jim, Cesar or myself). It's a good thing Tucker caught her before she got certified.

Lloyd takes an award for the top dog navigator. He nailed the underwater compass navigation dives, within a couple of feet, for the out and back and square on his first try.

We have a great group of core ORCA divers. On every trip we talk about other ORCA members being certified, but they don't join us on any of our dive trips. All the current ORCA divers in our group started out last year as just ORCA members, not certified divers. Now we have a very solid group of divers.

Another batch of ORCA divers are in the certification process. Their first Open Water class meeting is Friday night.

[Jim28fl]

Thanks chip. i can't think of a better person to train someone to dive and i highly recommend you get refresher dives with chip if you have not been diving in awhile.

I always enjoy our trips and he does a great job setting them up as well which is a huge help.

[Flcorals]

Second Jims comments. Its great to be trained by someone who actually cares that you learn the skills right and have fun adventure dives as well.

[ccampo]

Exactly, an award goes to Chip as well for teaching us how to dive. Thanks Chip.



My daughter and his daughters are next.

[Chip]

Thanks Jim, Lloyd and Cesar! I've been dry too long (almost a week). Time to post another trip. We're looking for more divers to join us. The lake trips are a great way to ease your way back into diving.