Day two of SCUBA cert done! More infos:
- We saw whales! 2-3 big-ass blue whales, a hundred or so feet from the boat.
- We went down for two dives, two tanks of air. Did a fraction of the exercises we did in the pool, I was mistaken and thought we were going to do a lot more. We swam around for half of each tank, and just kinda looked around and were 20ish feet under the water.
- Two dives means we came up and switched our tanks, which means you have to put all your stuff on a new tank.
- When we were done, they treated us to burgers and chicken sammiches. So yeah, while I did wear my swim trunks, AND my flippy-floppies, I opted for a chicken sammich and chose to not flip a burger. Gotta mix it up a bit. (Food was cooked on a grill on the boat!)
- Saw some bright orange fishes and lots of kelp.
- Salt water is eye-burny.
- Nothing will clear your sinuses faster then a nice salt water irrigation. It’s like a neti pot, but the entire ocean. Salt water is burny in your sinuses.
- I did not fornicate with any mermaids.
- It’s really wierd to just chill at the bottom of the ocean and just look around.
- I lost my flipper fin while I was swimming around, but a dude put it back on for me and that was rad. Thanks dude.
Exhausted in the total sense, but the good kind, my entire soul is tired. The kind of tired you get after really hard work.
More next week and if all goes well I has a certification.