Women like you better when you're wearing a mask, can't talk, and are inaccessible.
Scuba Diving
Scuba Diving
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Scuba Diving
Don't forget "is damn near completely covered up."
Diogenes of Sinope: "It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Arnold Judas Rimmer, BSC, SSC: "Better dead than smeg."
Scuba Diving
Pretty much. I even have a leash.
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"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Scuba Diving
I went on the schedule to dive the zoo on my birthday in a few weeks.
I will have birthday sharks.
I will have birthday sharks.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Scuba Diving
My 10th aquarium shark dive will be this Wednesday. Last week one of the 6-foot zebra sharks swam directly into the side of my head while everyone was watching. It's a good thing my mic wasn't hot because I'm pretty sure I said, "Oh shit" when it happened.
But I have been hitting shitty luck for open-water diving this summer.
Every week I am trying to get the kid in a quarry to keep his skills tight, we have a Lake Superior wreck-diving trip happening in September. There's maybe 2 days out of the week when everything lines up... not a weekend (too many divers in the water on weekends), and there are no other obligations through the day, and the frikkin dive shop is open to rent gear (he takes a a few days off during the week, and his 1-7pm hours suck for trying to organize a morning dive... ie, have to rent the gear the night before).
Anyway, for the last 4 weeks, the two-ish days a week when we could go dive.... thunderstorms.
This year has been great for the garden but shitty for scuba diving.
But I have been hitting shitty luck for open-water diving this summer.
Every week I am trying to get the kid in a quarry to keep his skills tight, we have a Lake Superior wreck-diving trip happening in September. There's maybe 2 days out of the week when everything lines up... not a weekend (too many divers in the water on weekends), and there are no other obligations through the day, and the frikkin dive shop is open to rent gear (he takes a a few days off during the week, and his 1-7pm hours suck for trying to organize a morning dive... ie, have to rent the gear the night before).
Anyway, for the last 4 weeks, the two-ish days a week when we could go dive.... thunderstorms.
This year has been great for the garden but shitty for scuba diving.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Scuba Diving
Planned to go this Friday because the forecast was clear and sunny.GORDON wrote: Anyway, for the last 4 weeks, the two-ish days a week when we could go dive.... thunderstorms.
Now it's 80% chance of thunderstorms.
Sigh.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Scuba Diving
10th aquarium dive today went swimmingly. Get it?
Also got permission to take in the GoPro this Sunday. I'll see if that mask side-mount clip works.
Also got permission to take in the GoPro this Sunday. I'll see if that mask side-mount clip works.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Scuba Diving
Been watching the weather forecast change to, and from, and to, rain for the last week, but they finally settled on 20% chance. We finally got a couple dives in today, back to Gilboa Quarry, a place we hit in August 2016 with the submerged jet plane and the trout rush. Much the same this year... except this time we brought fish food, and those 2-foot-long trout go so crazy that they knock your mask off/regulator out of your mouth in their feeding frenzy. My kid said he lost his regulator twice but I couldn't even see him from 3 feet away through all the fish... but he kept his head and just put it back into his mouth. Good stuff.
We used his new/used BC for the first time that I got off ebay, and it worked flawlessly. It's nice because it has built-in pockets for weights which is great for him because it means he doesn't need to wear a weight belt... and with his nonexistent hips weight belts slide right off of him, usually 30 feet under water. So the new BC was great.
We had 2 flawless dives with a max depth of 45 feet, 70 total minutes of bottom time, and a minimum water temp of 57 degrees. Twas 81 on the surface with a thermocline at about 20 feet. I might find myself motivated tomorrow when more awake and put a clip on youtube.
We used his new/used BC for the first time that I got off ebay, and it worked flawlessly. It's nice because it has built-in pockets for weights which is great for him because it means he doesn't need to wear a weight belt... and with his nonexistent hips weight belts slide right off of him, usually 30 feet under water. So the new BC was great.
We had 2 flawless dives with a max depth of 45 feet, 70 total minutes of bottom time, and a minimum water temp of 57 degrees. Twas 81 on the surface with a thermocline at about 20 feet. I might find myself motivated tomorrow when more awake and put a clip on youtube.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Scuba Diving
Ok, ok, enough with all the emails. Here's a couple vids of random 3-minute chunks of time.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Scuba Diving
Took a while to upload and process but here it is.
The first few minutes the camera was tucked into a strap on my chest while I fed the fish.
The next few minutes I am holding the camera in my hand as I wave at kids.
At 9:20 a frikkin zebra shark swims right into me as I am waving, and I bat it around a little bit, accidentally. One second I am waving, the next second I have a hand full of shark.
But I think it gets good at 9:39 when I plant it in the gravel and let it just watch me as I swim around. Also the reef fish seemed fascinated by it so they are everywhere in the shot.
The first few minutes the camera was tucked into a strap on my chest while I fed the fish.
The next few minutes I am holding the camera in my hand as I wave at kids.
At 9:20 a frikkin zebra shark swims right into me as I am waving, and I bat it around a little bit, accidentally. One second I am waving, the next second I have a hand full of shark.
But I think it gets good at 9:39 when I plant it in the gravel and let it just watch me as I swim around. Also the reef fish seemed fascinated by it so they are everywhere in the shot.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Scuba Diving
It'd be cooler if that tank had great whites in it.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Scuba Diving
I want to dive more. Come to Bermuda for that swim next year with me and we'll dive 
It's not me, it's someone else.
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I know there's a cruise booked in 2018. Can't remember when.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Scuba Diving
If I were rich, I'd buy you tickets. Sigh, we really need to win that lottery.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Scuba Diving
Ditto.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”