What can I say… this year seems to progress as planned…. I finished the divemaster course yesterday and signed the necessary documents which means I’m am a PADI Divemaster. Apparently there is no mandatory PADI Divemaster tattoo.
To think that I only started diving less than two years ago… it’s been a busy and interesting time. Next step: Assistant Instructor.
If you ever have to do a dive briefing, feel free to use the below template.
In some spots, you will need to fill in the details of the dive location e.g. phone number of the local hospital whereas in other spots you can delete whatever is not necessary (you do obviously not enter a dive spot from a boat AND walking from the beach).
When you have adapted the template to your diving spot, you will have covered all the major points of a dive briefing.
If you use the template for several dive spots, it will give your briefings a consistent look-and-feel (listen-and-feel, if you prefer) which makes it easier on the divers regularly attending your dives.
Feel free to add contents or delete what is not necessary. Use a map if you have one. Make one if you don’t. Remember to keep briefings short and to the point. Make it interesting but keep it relevant.
Update: Fixed a typo
Sometimes I get a bit thoughtful and slightly depressed. There is so much going on in this world and without doubt I’m engaging in many activities as well.
But should I? Is it really ok to spend time, again, not with my family? Shouldn’t I be with him? Does it matter as long he is still very young?
See the previous post… preparing for that test took a lot of time although I spent many hours reading late in the night and tried to keep time away from the family to a minimum. Those were difficult three years. My resolution is not to let that happen again, at least not in those dimensions.
But then again, the business world seems to be turning faster and faster and keeping necessarily ends in concessions. With personal changes looming I wonder to what degree my environment will accept my resolution to put the family first.
Then again, I want him to proud of me once he is old enough to understand what that means. I want his eyes to light up when he says “my dad…”. I’ve chosen my path partly based on such considerations but as the future is hard to predict he might not necessarily share my interests, neither in profession nor in hobbies. But that’s alright – he is a different human being and should have his own interests. I just hope he will be able to see through different genres and recognize the effort I made to become what I became.
As for the future… nobody knows for sure what will happen. Plenty of people have ideas and expectations but that means exactly nada. Might as well pursue the path I’ve embarked on and pull it through to the end.
2017 könnte ein grosses Jahr in Sachen Auszeichnungen werden… im April seit Jahren wieder einmal TOIEC Test geschrieben und mit 985 von 990 Punkten geschafft.
Im Mai dann die ICT-Manager Diplomprüfung und Ende Juni dann endlich die Bestätigung – bestanden. Das letzte Jahr der Wirtschaftsinformatiker Fachausweis und dieses Jahr das Diplom nachgeschoben.
Wenn ich nicht gerade ein PADI Divemaster Praktikum absolvieren und mich auf die Cambridge Proficiency Prüfung im Oktober vorbereiten würde, könnte ich ein wenig durchschnaufen…. naja, vielleicht nächstes Jahr.
Mal schauen, was das Jahr sonst noch mit sich bringt…