PIZZA! PIZZA! - Week 4

February 26, 2005

Beginning of week four and I decided to continue my diving education with the Rescue Diver course. We practiced search patterns to find missing divers and techniques to bring unconcious divers to the surface and help panicked divers at the surface, and so on.
On Tuesday we had to put all these skills into practice with two rescue scenarios. We didn't know what these scenarios would involve or when they would take place so we had to be on standby all day and ready to respond to the cry of ...
... PIZZA! PIZZA! (replacing HELP! so as not to confuse others) In our first scenario we had to deal with a panicked diver at the surface and a missing diver underwater who was unconcious and not breathing. There were seven of us taking the course so we weren't all needed in the water. I stayed on shore to get oxygen ready for the unconcious diver and contact the emergency services.
... PIZZA! PIZZA! In our second scenario we had to deal with three panicked divers at the surface and one missing diver (this time in the form of a weight belt) who was concious and breathing but had just got lost. I was first on the scene and quickly snorkelled out to help the panicked divers while others kitted up for an underwater search.
Both scenarios went well, the second quicker than the first and all seven of us passed the course.