Wow, leaving work at 7:30pm…. a hell of an early night. Course, I did this with reason, and I’m going back to work now (remotely)… Joker from work, the guy who knows his stuff scuba-wise agreed to take me out to the pool and do some pool excersises to get me “trained” and if I didn’t suck he’d take me out with him this weekend on an ocean dive. I think I impressed him by not drowning, and as long as their is no chance of me dropping like a rock to the bottom of the ocean I’ll be fine. My main problem was keeping myself at neutral boyancy, without going up or down. A couple of times I drifted up and sideways without realizing it and some other swimmers scraped their guts on my head and gear 🙂 The main thing that really got me was trying to absorb and remember to do everything at once… keep breathing, don’t hold your breath, equalize, let air out of your vest, put air into your vest, don’t swim into a wall, etc etc, all at the same time. Mom, dad, don’t worry, Joker is a certified dive master (ie: not just some guy who’s taken a course or two and thinks he knows what is going on), so it’s ok 🙂 From my short exposure it looks like divers and climbers have about the same amount of paranoia in their sports 🙂
Now it’s time to ssh into work, crank Enya, and keep on codin’!