i can see for miles and miles...
same thing today. got up for a 20 minute run on the treadmill (which was pretty difficult after drinking rum all night) got some breakfast, over to the nitrox station to analyze the air mixture in my tanks and then out to the boat by 8:15 for roll call.
the first dive was ridiculous... like swimming in a fishtank with a fake blue background. the visibility must have been 200+ feet. never been in viz that clear. and warm too - probably 79° water. not as warm as indo pacific waters but better by far than the 65° water we get off the california coast.
highlights for today were a couple of stingrays, a hawksbill turtle, a couple of really fun narrow swimthroughs, some cowfish... the best thing though was these 2 nassau groupers - benji and mini-me. they love divers. as soon as they see a group of divers they swim right up to you and hang out with you as long as you're there with them. you can pet them, scratch them under the chin, our divemaster even took off her mask and took benji by the snout and planted a husge kiss on his lips. hysterical. but what was coolest about these two is that they wanted you to help them hunt squirrelfish. if you spotted one out in the open and either benji or mini-me was swimming with you all you had to do was point at the squirrelfish and one of them would rush at it trying to eat it. invarible the quirrel fish would wedge itself up in a small coral block and then benji and mini-me would sit vigil at the openings trying to flush it out. truly amazing. never experienced interacting with a fish like that. i mean they could have been dogs - so frikkin cool.
took care of abot half of the open water portion of my rescue diver training today. it's really frikkin difficult. assessing the consciosuness of a victim and dragging them back to the boat while administering rescue breaths to them. hard work. now i have to do the underwater portion of the training - assessing consciousness, bring them back up to the surface, towing them to the boat, rescue breathing... it's a real challenge. and i love it.
after we returned from the afternoon dive scott - another really cool guy from the shop who's been diving for 30+ years - and i decided to rent a couple of bikes and check out the island. little cayman is small - maybe 10 miles by 1 mile. it has a bird sanctuary in the middle of it where red footed boobies nest - i know, i know... a tropical island full of boobies - couldn't be a more perfect place for me, right? anyhow, we were out for about 1:45 and almost made it around the whole island until we got to this place with a handmade sign by the sanctuary that warned of the mosquitos. since it was almost dusk and we were right by the sanctuary we decided to turn back so as not to get eaten alive. i'll try to bike around the island some other time.
the first dive was ridiculous... like swimming in a fishtank with a fake blue background. the visibility must have been 200+ feet. never been in viz that clear. and warm too - probably 79° water. not as warm as indo pacific waters but better by far than the 65° water we get off the california coast.
highlights for today were a couple of stingrays, a hawksbill turtle, a couple of really fun narrow swimthroughs, some cowfish... the best thing though was these 2 nassau groupers - benji and mini-me. they love divers. as soon as they see a group of divers they swim right up to you and hang out with you as long as you're there with them. you can pet them, scratch them under the chin, our divemaster even took off her mask and took benji by the snout and planted a husge kiss on his lips. hysterical. but what was coolest about these two is that they wanted you to help them hunt squirrelfish. if you spotted one out in the open and either benji or mini-me was swimming with you all you had to do was point at the squirrelfish and one of them would rush at it trying to eat it. invarible the quirrel fish would wedge itself up in a small coral block and then benji and mini-me would sit vigil at the openings trying to flush it out. truly amazing. never experienced interacting with a fish like that. i mean they could have been dogs - so frikkin cool.
took care of abot half of the open water portion of my rescue diver training today. it's really frikkin difficult. assessing the consciosuness of a victim and dragging them back to the boat while administering rescue breaths to them. hard work. now i have to do the underwater portion of the training - assessing consciousness, bring them back up to the surface, towing them to the boat, rescue breathing... it's a real challenge. and i love it.
after we returned from the afternoon dive scott - another really cool guy from the shop who's been diving for 30+ years - and i decided to rent a couple of bikes and check out the island. little cayman is small - maybe 10 miles by 1 mile. it has a bird sanctuary in the middle of it where red footed boobies nest - i know, i know... a tropical island full of boobies - couldn't be a more perfect place for me, right? anyhow, we were out for about 1:45 and almost made it around the whole island until we got to this place with a handmade sign by the sanctuary that warned of the mosquitos. since it was almost dusk and we were right by the sanctuary we decided to turn back so as not to get eaten alive. i'll try to bike around the island some other time.
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