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To start, I’ll put up a couple of photos of the octopus we saw on Thursday night at Elbow Beach. When I first saw the Octo, it was blue (which I am told means happy). Then he turned a sandy white colour and tried to camouflage himself against the sand, and finally a red/orange colour to show he was not quite so happy anymore. At that point I stopped taking photos and left him alone, and felt a wee bit guilty for ruining his mood.

This was the 3rd day of our Rescue Diver course and was a lot of fun, concentrated mostly on missing diver scenarios. We tried location and recovery using 2 methods today - line and reel, and expanding square. If it’s possible, the visibility at Wyndham was even worse today than before as I was finding it hard to even see my outstretched hand! In a team with Jules and Johann though, I’m happy to say we did find and “rescue” our missing divers. For fun, Ondrej also had the missing divers all have some sort of problem we had to deal with as well.

So far, I’m really enjoying this course, and I think the awful visibility at Wyndham actually helped today as we really had to rely on our compass and kick counts to do the square and find the divers. This is a PADI course I would definitely recommend. I’m not saying I feel ready to Rescue anyone in a real situation as you never really know how you will react until something happens, but at least I feel I am learning skills that will be useful and could make a difference.

The real shock is that on the expanding square I was navigating and we actually found them! This is a major surprise as I almost never do any NAV as I tend to concentrate on photos and leave the nav to Jules.

This is a good course, and we’re lucky to be doing it with good people.

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