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February 13, 2003
bicycle repair at 25 meters
went on two dives this morning, a deep dive to 32 meters where i got a little nitrogen narcosis, which makes you goofy and uncautious of you let it, all it did to me was make me smile real big and swim very close to the ocean floor, my arms out in front of me as if i were flying, which in a way i was. then we did a multilayer dive in which we used nitrogen accumulation timetables as we dove at different levels. tonight is my last dive in the advanced course, it`s a night dive, should be really cool.
forgot to mention, yesterday at the wreck there was a bicycle that some other diving team had brought down, you used to be able to ride it around the deck of the sunken cargo boat, but the chain (naturally) was starting to rust. edwin my instructor and i tried for a minute or two to get the back tire rolling again, i was so excited to jump it off the bow of the boat and float down 5 meters to the deck, but the damn thing wasn`t budging. still i was proud, even billy spaceman hasn`t done bike repair in those circumstances (yet...).
leaving saturday i decided, gonna try and go on some fun dives tomorrow, been talking to pascual, he just came up from el salvador where i`m going, mentioned a perfect place to learn to surf, might have to finally give it a serious go. it`s great to see him again, he`s with joann from belgium, they start the beginner course today.
learning to dive here is the cheapest place in the world, i did the beginner open water course for $135 u.s. including lodging, the advanced costs the same, you couldn`t even get just the beginning open water in the u.s. for less the 350 i reckon. so if any of you are coming though here in the future (buskirk) you would be smart to try it, i can`t wait to dive in freshwater now, they say the visibility is even better. if i was in a different circumstance i`d stay here for another month and get my divemaster rating, it`s a little more expensive ($700) but worth it, maybe some other time.
ok off to prep for the night dive.
Posted by bendan at February 13, 2003 02:34 PM
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fucking a that's cheap. i think the advanced (with 6 dives cost me ~$200-220 in thailand. sounds like your having a blast. i'd love to get down there sometime.
Posted by: andrew at February 14, 2003 11:18 PM