Showing posts with label PADI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label PADI. Show all posts

TEAM BODY GLOVE...they go surfing!

28 August 2009 Labels: , , , , , ,




One of the scariest things for me would be getting trapped under a wave without a regulator in my mouth. This is why I don't surf...YET. Someday, maybe I'll be able to play on the waves.




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TEAM BODY GLOVE with Whale Shark in La Paz

26 August 2009 Labels: , , , , , , ,




One of my goals is to spend 6 months in Egypt learning to freedive so I can spend 3 minutes under water in the Baja with one of these amazing creatures.



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22 August 2009 Labels: , , , , , ,

PADI Open Water classes count towards college credit. At GirlDiver, we LOVE college students! Why? Well...you know how to study (though the course materials are pretty easy...) AND you're totally up for new adventures. Spring Break? After college travel? Oh, and did we mention your scuba class counts for college credit?



See you in the water!



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Surfer Holly Beck swims with Whale Shark

21 August 2009 Labels: , , , , , , ,

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College Credit for PADI Classes

03 May 2009 Labels: , , , , , ,

When I was in college, I was not...well, shall we say, "athletically gifted". I've always lived by the philosophy, if it's flying at you, DUCK! So, volleyball, softball and basketball were never sports I spent very much time with.

I did take PE in college...one quarter of badmitton and two quarters of golf. This taught me to be savvy in the boardroom, as I wasn't going to be making any points on the course.

One of the reasons I'm a PADI Instructor is the high quality of educational materials PADI provides to the students. The PADI education department takes their position seriously, to the point, certain PADI courses are recommended by the American Council of Education f0r college credit.

According to the PADI website:

A university or college may use the ACE credit recommendations in a variety of ways. The institution may apply the credit to your major replacing a required course. They may also use the credit as a general elective to possibly waive a prerequisite course.

Universities and colleges that accept ACE credit recommendations for PADI or EFR courses typically handle them like transfer credit. Transfer credit is often awarded without an additional fee. This may save you tuition fees while at the same time allowing you to possibly meet graduation requirements.

For more information, check out the PADI site HERE , then sign up for the next GirlDiver scuba course for a college credit which really WILL open up a new world!

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Diving with Isaiah

03 March 2009 Labels: , , , , , , , ,


Isaiah is a 17 year old boy who likes to dive. Oh...he won't show it purposefully, as he needs to be cool. But...as an instructor, I can see it in his eyes.


He started with me as an Open Water student in my teen class, and for Christmas, his family pitched in an paid for his Advanced Open Water course.


This past weekend, we were going to do his Deep dive. Hit 100...find narcosis? But, at 60' deep, he was having a lot of flooding with his mask, and he was checking his air quite frequently.


I am BIG on "air underwater is important", so I expect my students to check their air. But he was acting nervous about it. I checked his gauge...still had 70% of his tank left.


We were swimming over a bottle field, so I changed our dive plan. We circled the bottles, and suddenly, I saw a purple trail of ink escape into the water in front of me.


I looked at Isaiah, as his eyes lit up and he excitedly pointed in the direction the squid had escaped to. The show had begun.


We watched the little stubby squid as he changed colours, camoflauging himself so we wouldn't see him. Eventually, he shot a perfect "ink ring" and with that he was gone.


Back on shore, Isaiah wasn't disappointed in not completing the deep dive, rather he was excited to see the squid put on a display for us.


Sometimes I think we get too caught up in the "goal" of the dive, and we miss the delights along the path. It's not about going deep, or completing some random set of skills. We need to take the moments the underwater world gives us, and allow those to change the way we see the world.


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