Subaqua Sternal Rubs

So I went diving today for the first time since I have been here (it's been a whole 5 days…) I got back around noon, and my ears just finally popped (hence the title of the post.)

Anyways, it seems to be the slow season, since for the first dive I was the only one on the boat, except for the two instructors. Jeez, I didn't know I was that dangerous a diver that I needed two instructors to watch me. About the dumbest thing I did was try and put my booties on the wrong foot. Oops. Anyways it was the first dive with my new Cobra dive computer. It worked great - no problems. I even downloaded the data from the dive computer to my laptop, and it made this pretty picture:

Since the day was kinda overcast, visability wasn't the greatest, but still saw various eels, a sea cucumber, a large turtle, and a moderate amount of normal reef fish.

On the second dive, additional people were able to get up out of bed and join me. There was a family doing OW certfication in one group, and me and my buddy in another group. I was paired up with a girl from Louisana/NJ who was here on month 5 of a 2 year stint with the Peace Corps. Pretty interesting. Anyways, the diving was interesting too, since I could barely keep up with here… it was supposed to be a drift dive, but she kept kicking and swimming off in all directions. We actually lost the DM once… but we found him again. Wasn't such a big deal since I've been diving with this DM often enough that I think he trusted my skills, and we were a competent enough buddy pair. (Actually to think of it, I seperated from the group before with another advanced buddy, and they didn't seem to care then either…. Oh well, hate cattle boats anyways.) So on the second dive we saw the normal reef fish, eels, a 3 foot long lobster (which unfortunately is illegal to harvest when scuba diving… something about unfair advantage), a tarpon, and a 5 foot long barracuda.

Now I've signed up for my next diving already… Friday on the Bianca C (200ft+ sunken cruise ship from the 40's in 90-130+ft of water). I'll be doing this on Nitrox, so we'll see how the new computer does with that

Well, it's off to FedEx to hopefully pick up my (missing) computer power cord.

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