last day of diving

the waters were choppier today making for "ideal" conditions to take care of the rest of my rescue diver training. man it's difficult work. the first exercise we did was an simulation of an unconscious breathing diver. lots to keep track of - making sure he was positively buoyant, making sure his regulator stayed in his mouth, making sure we didn't ascend too fast, signalling the boat once we did surface and towing him back to the boat which monitoring his breathing and consciousness - all in choppy water conditions. the second and third simulation we did was were unconscious not breathing diver situations one where he remains unconscious at the surface (so you have to breathe for them once you ascend) and the other where he suddenly gains consciousness and starts to violently panic... not fun - all of it hard work and extremely humbling. i feel like i could practice doing these simulations on every dive and still not cover all contingencies completely.

i finished off 2 dives today and just collapsed from all the actvityfrom the past couple of days... manifesting in a 4-hour midday nap - so worth it.

i think i'm done. the last dive of the day was great... saw a huge green moray eel stuffed into a cave, hung around a coral block that seemed like a nursery of some sort for all of the tiny baby fish that were swimming around it, finished off my stress & rescue diver simulations. i's call that a full day and a full trip. end it on a high note.

time for rum!