I have completed three weeks of the four week IDC (Instructor Development Course). I have given micro teaching presentations, prescriptive teaching presentations, confined water presentations, and open water presentations. I have demonstrated the 20 basic skills required by all SCUBA divers, I have taken the same 5 general knowledge tests twice as well as 2 tests on the instructor manual.
Yesterday we went to Catalina to perform 2 of our 5 open water dives. It was cold, 57 degrees. Which if you are moving is not bad, but when you are sitting at 35 feet watching people do skills over and over again. It was cold!
So I have one more week of the IDC. The week after that I take my Instructor Examination with PADI. If I pass everything then I will be an Open Water SCUBA Instructor. Not sure what I am going to do with that, but at least I will have it.
The one thing that gets me with this whole process is how everyone I talk to that has gone through comments that it is hard, and that you don't get enough sleep, and how if they knew what the process was really going to be like, they probably would not have done it. What a bunch of wimps - it's easy, well maybe not easy, but not hard. Demanding, time-consuming, and at times confusing - it's all that!
So here is the question, what type of fish is a Garibaldi?
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Congratualtions!!! I think it is awesome that you are doing this. Not sure exactlly what you will do with it, but it will probably come in handy for your life's path. I believe it is a damselfish.
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