Signing off OWI 12 hour log.

[Dano]

Hi who can sign off the log sheet for OWI.
Chow.
Dano

[PeteM]

Hi who can sign off the log sheet for OWI.
Chow.
Dano

Any NQI that observes you doing the training

[John Williams]

:=Hi who can sign off the log sheet for OWI.
:=Chow.
:=Dano

Any NQI that observes you doing the training


And if there is no NQI in the brnach then I beleive that the DO can do it too.
Remember that Marshalls are the representative of the DO - so they can support your log if the DO did not actually see it for themselves.

Really all the OWI Chief Examiner is asking for is corroborated evidence of practice - so my advice has always been

1) get whoever saw it to sign it (preferably an NQI, DO or Marshal - in that order)

2) Submit more logged hours than the minimum - just to show willing and to be sure that there is enough there that counts. Many get confused with what does count:

You need to be teaching - so doing tests/assessments does not count!
Taking someone on their first dive, first sea dive, first wreck dive, first drift dive - DOES count - as long as you teach them the new skills involved in that first experience.
You need to show variety - so 20 hours of teaching compass navigation will not be enough
Teaching starts from the beginning of the brief and ends at the end of the debrief (it does not run from arriving at Stoney to hitting the M69 on the way home!)
If you take too long teaching a lesson (and there may be a variety of reasons why this is acceptable) ut don't explain it then the OWI chief may count your 12 hours as 10 and send it back. So why not send in 18 hours and be certain?


John