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New Open Water Divers

cullen-mackenzie UWE is excited to announce the successful completion of three open water courses yesterday.  Mackenzie, Norm and Francois successfully completed their open water training.  Francois was training in the SDI program which ran over four days, where Mackenzie and Norm was doing the PADI program over the summer as we were working to their schedule.

smith-norm Overall most of the training was completed in Tuwanek.  The conditions were good but as the last day approached it was evident that the visibility conditions were getting worse.  The students were treated to seeing no less then two Giant Pacific Octopi.  Great work guys!!  Enjoy the diving.

Posted 1 year ago at 3:46 pm.

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New Decompression Divers

manskopf-peter UWE is excited to announce that Peter M has successfully completed his Advanced Nitrox, and Decompression Procedures training.  He arrived from Denver early last week, and we got hard at it.  The first day had a steep learning curve, where Peter was shown how to set up the Doubles, and we prepped with one stage bottle.  Once we had everything set up it was off to Coopers Green where we did a marathon dive that was filled with almost every skill that is needed to dive in the Technical sense.

On our second day, we did dual stage bottle skills, no mask drills and bag drills. As in the first day the learn curve was very steep.  This week had us doing our first decompression Dives, with the first one in Tuwanek, and then the second on at the HMCS CHAUDIERE.  Peter was certified on Wednesday, and this Saturday has us heading to the Power Lines for a dip to 170 feet.  Great times ahead!!

Posted 1 year ago at 4:56 am.

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New Openwater Divers

edwards-kenneth UWE would like to congratulate Kyle and Ken for successfully completing their Open Water Course.  Ken did the SDI open water that was conducted over a couple of weeks.  On his certifying dive which were completed out at Tuwanek we lucked out and saw a Giant Pacific Octopus.

Kyle joined up with UWE, this weekend to complete his PADI Open Water dives.  We had him out on Saturday night, and all day Sunday in order to get his four Open Water dives completed.  Kyle is a natural, he was wearing his fathers drysuit, and he looked like he had been diving for years.  The dives progressed well, dive one was the usual slow easy dive, but since Kyle was doing klootwyk-kyle such a great job, dive two was a little more challenging, and we ventured up and over the wall, and lucked out and found an Octopus den on the wall in 45 feet of water.  Dive three had us down at the 60 ft Octopus den, and then we headed to the second den that we had found the night before.  Dive four had us finding a third octopus, and Bill, finding an fourth octopus all within 40 feet of each other.  We certainly had some great dives this weekend!!

Posted 1 year ago at 6:32 am.

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Day 1 of Advanced Nitrox/Decoprocedures

Today had Peter upon from Colorado to do the TDI Advanced Nitrox and Decompressions Procedures course. Though the weather was wet and cool, it made no difference since todays dive was spent at 30 feet in very warm water.   Today’s dive included, V drills, S Drills, donning and doffing of cyinders, NOTX and some Lift Bag drills.

This was Peter’s first time in doubles, and the learning curve is steep as the drills come fast and furious.  Peter was certainly up to the challenge he had no troubles getting through the work.  We did not complete everything that was laid out to try, though that is cool since it was certainly a challenging afternoon for all.  Well done Peter….I hope you are read for tomorrow!!

Posted 1 year ago at 5:33 am.

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Another Excellent Charter

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA UWE had an awesome week of training, where we successfully completed Natasha’s and Shelby’s Open Water course.  Their course was worked on over three weeks, with knowledge reviews and pool skills completed in late July, and their open water dives completed in early August.   We completed their open water dive 4 out on the charter on last Monday, where we went to 9 Mile point and then to Pipers Point. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

On the charter we met these two lovely young ladies from Ireland.  They both learned to dive in Thailand, so this was their first cold water dives…and sure enough, the first complments heard after hitting the water was “Crap this is cold”.  The girls however did an excellent job getting sorted out, and had two excellent dives, looking like long time pro divers!  Jan decided she was to be the pilot for trip back up the inlet, and what an excellent job she did!!  Well done,  thank you to Jan and Sarah for joining us for a day of diving!!

Posted 1 year, 1 month ago at 2:55 am.

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