This is the story of one of my SeaWorld camps and when I was able to take the trainer test. The specific day was Thursday July, 24th. It started off as a very dreary day. The afternoon was hot and muggy, and then the skies began to darken. We were all seated at the Clyde and Seymour “Take Pirate Island” show when the skies opened up. After the show, we were scheduled to do our trainer test in the Blue Horizons show pool, but before the rain had even stopped coming down they cancelled the show. We still had about half an hour before we could do the test, so we all decided to go down to the front of the park and shop. At the front of the park there is a little ice cream shop called “The Polar Parlor”, and me being me, I decided to get a giant
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They then told us to get into groups of two. My friend James and I paired up together. Finally the test began and the first two went, then the next two, and so on. The first part of the test was to swim freestyle back and forth across the pool. Almost everyone made it back and forth freestyle, and I did great. Everyone was also able to tread water for five minutes with our hands completely over our heads. Now came the last part that made everyone nervous. James and I were the sixth group out of ten and so far no one had made it, only one person had made it but halfway across. It was now our turn and the trainer looked at us and said “If you drop down in the water, you can push off the wall and it will help you.” We dropped into the water, about 7 or 8 feet, and I tried to push off the wall but I couldn’t get a good footing so I just started to swim instead. I felt so relaxed and peaceful under the water, looking down towards the bottom of the pool all I saw was a beautiful blue. The next thing I knew I saw something in front of me and realized that it was the slide out of the other end of the pool. I continued swimming underwater until I got to the other side, once I broke the surface everyone was cheering for me because I made it all the way across the pool. The dolphins were all cheering for me too, they were all excited; communicating with each other and blowing water out of
They then told us to get into groups of two. My friend James and I paired up together. Finally the test began and the first two went, then the next two, and so on. The first part of the test was to swim freestyle back and forth across the pool. Almost everyone made it back and forth freestyle, and I did great. Everyone was also able to tread water for five minutes with our hands completely over our heads. Now came the last part that made everyone nervous. James and I were the sixth group out of ten and so far no one had made it, only one person had made it but halfway across. It was now our turn and the trainer looked at us and said “If you drop down in the water, you can push off the wall and it will help you.” We dropped into the water, about 7 or 8 feet, and I tried to push off the wall but I couldn’t get a good footing so I just started to swim instead. I felt so relaxed and peaceful under the water, looking down towards the bottom of the pool all I saw was a beautiful blue. The next thing I knew I saw something in front of me and realized that it was the slide out of the other end of the pool. I continued swimming underwater until I got to the other side, once I broke the surface everyone was cheering for me because I made it all the way across the pool. The dolphins were all cheering for me too, they were all excited; communicating with each other and blowing water out of