OPEN WATER DIVING COURSE (2nd batch)

IIUM SCUBA CLUB

DATE : 17TH-19TH APRIL 2010
VENUE : PULAU TENGGOL(DUNGUN), TERENGGANU
PARTICIPANT FROM IIUM SCUBA CLUB : 16 MEMBERS ,1 OFFICER,1 STAFF
INSTURCTOR : FAKULTI SAINS MARIN,UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA

AGENDA:

• 16th April 2010
All participant of Scuba Diving License Program departed from IIUM to Dungun jetty at 11 o’clock in the afternoon.

• 17th April 2010
An introduction to scuba system (Assembly and disassembly), pre dive check, regulator use, mask clear, BCD auto and oral inflation, and weight system adjustment is held for Open Water License program trainees. At night, theory class and briefing on next activities is done. Meanwhile, for certified divers group, the first dive is done at Turtle point dive site. In the afternoon, the second dive session took place at Amazing Grace site.

• 18th April 2010
For Open Water participants, shore dive is held during the morning and boat dive at Turtle point in the afternoon. During the boat dive session, students are introduced to giant stride entry. While students were underwater, they manage to complete several skills. The skills were control descent, equalization technique, mask removal, mask clearing, underwater swimming, hand signal, fin pivot, buddy breathing, navigation, hovering, control swimming ascent, breathing from free flow, free descent and giant stride entry. By completing the dive session, participants have completed the requirement for diving license. At night, final class is held and participant is given their result whether they pass or fail the course after final exam is seized.
On the other hand, certified divers group get to do three dives on that day. The first dive is held on 10 o’clock in the morning while the other two dives is held in the afternoon at two o’clock and five o’clock. The dive sites visited during that day are Rajawali Reef, Teluk Nahkoda and Amazing Grace.

• 19th April 2010
In the morning, certified divers group have gone for shore dives while Open Water students have their final boat dive. After finish helping with the packaging of UKM’s diving equipments, all participants head off back to IIUM at 12 noon. We arrived at Female Sport Complex at 10 o’clock in the afternoon.

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