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DUI Demo Days

 


Chef Eric
Chef Eric
 

It is hard to believe it has been a year since we were last here for a rebreather confined water for Mark Conrad, Wade Sparks and Terry DeWolf.  But here we are again for the DUI Demo Days at Lake Travis and this year the water level is up to a reasonable level. 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

his year I was joined by a number of our staff including Dive Mom herself, Pat Croll, Vernon Dittrich, Bob Sloan and Wade Sparks.  Vernon and Pat were finishing a class, And I had scheduled this weekend as a practice session and a chance to get some skills out of the way for our Grand Cayman and Inner Space experiences.  Joining me for this session were CCR Normoxic Trimix students Harvey Sisco and Matt Booth.

 Saturday found most of us in the water except for Wade who became the cook for the day, keeping all of the


Chef Wade
Chef Wade

 participants well fed.  Vernon and Pat ran their students through their drills and mine were troopers as well, accomplishing most of the skills leaving only a few for our later dives.

Sunday found me with a plugged up head and students who had accomplished a lot the previous day.  Matt had to teach a class of his own, so Wade and Harvey went diving so Harvey could continue working on his trim.   This left me with Wade’s job from the previous day – that’s right Chef for a day.  Of course, during the night a storm blew in, dumped a lot of rain which continued the next morning.  This made cooking more ao a challenge although it had slowed to a slight drizzle.   The biggest challenge was sinking in the mud in front of the grill or walking around with 20 pounds of Texas Clay caked to my feet.
 

 

All-in-all we had a great time and the event was a success.  On top of that, we all had a good time.