Sunday, June 21, 2009

Wreck Dive and Deep Dive completed. We went back to "The Plane" again and drew a map of the area and measured the dimensions of the plane using kick-cycles. Pretty simple dive. We finned around for a bit after that, found some of those shrimp from the tank in Finding Nemo and found a Hornhead Crab (I think is what it's called). In between dives we did the Community Outreach Program again. I signed up for Environmental Education this time. Basically one of the teachers here on the island is trying to write childrens books for mathematics and other TCI-type activities that teachers can use in the classrooms. So we worked on that for a few hours. Then our Deep Dive came. I don't think we actually got to 100 ft, I think my depth gauge said 98 ft, but it was still deep regardless. Once we were at depth, Annie, the divemaster, asked each of us a question to see if we were still coherent and were not suffering from nitrogen narcosis. Some people got math problems, I got "Spell your first and last name backwards." Will, the other instructor had brought down a water bottle with him. When we were at depth, Will filled it in with some air from his tank. By the time we got back to the surface the bottle was about to burst. One more dive left for my Advanced Open Water certification!!
As soon as we got back to the center everyone packed up and we went camping for the night. The best part of the night was playing whiffle-ball... playing whiffle-ball against people from England who aren't even familiar with the game of baseball at all. But when it got too dark we gathered around the campfire, toasted marshmallows, and listened to Will and Michaela play songs on their guitar.

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