DMA 8 Day 12

Things have been sooooooooooo busy that I haven't been able to post. Unlike Steve, I can't keep up the daily postings.
Day 12 started with the daily morning meeting where the usual joking and fun takes place while assignments for the day are discussed. Actually the day usually starts around 05:30 where I meet with Rich and sometimes Alex to discuss the upcoming day and to review the standards we will be dealing with.
We decided that the day's dives would be a deep dive, search and recovery and working with ow students in the open water. Like always changes took place when we got to the boat and the schedule changed to no deep dive and the addition of a 'fun dive'.
We went to Captain Grumpy's for the Search & Recovery dive. Alex, Rich and I went in to check conditions and to set the search items. We had each 'lost' a weight and a mask. We sent in dive teams of three divers to locate the items using whatever method they preferred. All of the teams were successful. Yeah.
Next we set up for Pratical Assessment #2 - OW students in OW. Here the candidates act as divemasters working with an instructor that is working with OW students. We throw problems at them to see how they deal with them. Again, my team completed the exercise well, except Ben who is navigationally challenged.
For the last dive we moved to Cresent where we did some make up work and did a 'fun dive'. It was a nice site.
The evening was spent back in the classroom where Steve did a 'show and tell' on equipment. I kept falling asleep at the front table and almost fell over once. I seem to fall asleep alot in the evenings and when I can on the dive boats...and before flags, and after breakfast.