Exciting turn of events! Rather than working on dive skills today, we began working on boating skills. While we're here, we'll be learning how to operate and drive small boats so we can use them for future diving excursions/research projects.
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| The Nautilus and the Loper, two of the boats we'll be driving
We started out with a short lecture on the basics of boat navigation, as well as the procedures for taking out and using a boat here at Wrigley. We then progressed to the basics of knot-tying so that we could secure our boats to the mooring, etc. I was a bit apprehensive since I remember failing shoelace tying 101 as a child. Surprisingly, it wasn't half as bad as I expected, and I mastered the knots after a few tries.
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| Working to knot the rope correctly |
Now the more disappointing part. Since there was so many of us, not all of us could start the actual boat-driving part of training today. If the weather's good, I'll be able to do that tomorrow- if not, I'll have to wait until Monday. Not that I have much to complain about; I'll take this over sitting in Leavey Library back at USC any day.
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