Hoo, that was a long one. For everyone who avoided it, here's the story of my first post-certification scuba dive.
This was our fifth dive of the trip, but the first one that didn't involve sitting on the ocean floor or at the surface doing the certification skills. It was also a night dive: supposedly all manner of critters roam around the reef when the sun goes down. Crabs, lobsters, squid, all things I wanted to check out. They warned us to stay off the bottom by a few feet, as the sea urchins roam around at night as well.
Here's the problem: Unless you were hugging the ocean floor, you ran the risk of being sucked into some powerful currents. These currents pushed us both towards the surface and towards the rock wall that was the north end of the reef. They say not to struggle against currents, that it's dangerous and will tire you out too much, yet we had to constantly struggle just to stay near where our guide was heading. After about 10 minutes it became clear that this wasn't working, and we surfaced and sent for the boat. A little frustrating, but we rolled with it. There was nothing to be done, so may as well call it a night. Did see one decent lobster, I'm pretty sure, but no squid.
Last, but not first, here's a sign-off quote that pretty much sums up my feelings about yesterday's... "holiday" seems the wrong word, but whatever.
"I don't hate you... I nothing you."
-Jordan Sullivan
Submit to angry ranting, ye who enter here.
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whitewidow:
I know how you feel. I live by my lap top. Its the only means of communication in some places the gov't sends me. Imagine my supprise when it died while I was in Quebec.....and I don't speak French
glass_cat:
by my recollection, your walk out to the car to find your stuff makes you the last person in bed .