Thanks LB, yeah I will cherish what I learned, especially the safety aspects and rescue, there priceless. The tips on how to hold breath longer and deeper are incredible, really makes a difference. They teach the physiology of the body and why we can do what we do and what is happening to the human body during apnea, they teach blood shunt, thoracic filling, baurotrama and much much more. They also teach what is called negative pressure dives to similate depths from 66ft to 130ft and to 200ft, these really are cool and slow your heart rate down to an incredible slow beat all the while doing the grouper call to get air from lungs to equalize. The mammilian dive reflex tips to speeding up the process instead of doing several dives or at least 30 minutes or more of continous dives before it kick in are fantastic, it only takes 15minutes of your time and you are ready for some serious depth and bottom times.
Another great thing that suprised me and made it all that much more incredible was that Ren Chapman and Ashley Futural were there as instructors (congrats to them for passing), Ren and Ashley have some great videos of there spearfishing adventures and really know what there talking about so having them as instructors and also the spearfishing tips I got from them were priceless, thanks Ren and Ashley. Here is there video page for those interested.
http://www.vimeo.com/user884211/videos/sort:date Vimeo page
http://www.youtube.com/user/co…lay/uploads/6/A3EcZX-xGpQ youtube page