We resumed our diving schedule with a dive in the morning. We've finally achieved basic scuba certification status (woohoo!), so we got to go out on our own today with a buddy. The instructors were still on the dock supervising and we had some depth boundaries, but other than that, the ocean was ours to explore.
My friend Maddie brought along her underwater camera and snapped some photos of Savannah and I attempting underwater yoga/meditation.
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| I'm on the left; Savannah's blowing water rings on the right. |
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| Underwater meditation at its best
This was my favorite dive so far- not only was it tons of fun, but I had zero problems with my ears. What wasn't as fun was the three hours of lecture we had afterwards on Nitrox Diving, Dive Physics, and MPAs. Sometimes it's hard to remember that this is still school. We have our second midterm tomorrow, so I'll be whipping our my calculator for the first time since before Christmas.
Although I've stopped having trouble with my ears, it looks like the diving deities are determined to keep me out of the water for a little longer.
Before I arrived at Catalina, I had a pretty deep gash on my leg from my previous trip to Panama. I've been diving with it anyways, but it's been re-opening every day from the salt water exposure/wetsuit. I finally got it looked at yesterday, and they put some butterfly bandages on to pull the gash together since it's too wide to heal. Apparently I'm supposed to stay out of the water for a couple of days to give it a chance to mend, but I have half a mind to ceram-wrap my leg and dive over the weekend anyways.
Either way, it looks like I'm going to have a pretty gnarly scar on my leg. Time to start brainstorming cool backstories?
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