Comments: schweet. It's hard to put into words how exciting this experience was. Since I now have my RescueCard, I can be what NAUI considers a TeacherAssistant. What it actually entails is standing at the back of the class and nodding a lot and shaking your head a little now and then. But then, there's the pool!

Had been talking to my teacher Bob and he and his wife had very large accelerated classes over the weekend and they needed a TA to keep the Instructor/Student ratio in line. Bob said it would be a good experience to sit on the other side of the class so I volunteered and it was absolutely a freakin' blast! It was very interesting to see how different people reacted and absorbed the material. I've always loved reading Dive Training magazine; it really is an awesome mag seeing things from both the students AND instructors perspective, so it was only natural to try it out first hand.

It was the pool that was the most fun. You know how SURVIVOR is so fascinating watching how people interact, well this is that on a first hand scale. There were fish and there were non-fish. You can tell in a second.

WHAT WE LEARNED: Doing the Instructor hand snap attention sound is a lot harder than it seems. I guess that's why I got a subDuck, but it's not as cewl.