Well, back and alive again today (yesturday), and I’m a fully certified PADI diver (yay). Sunday was spent on some (IMHO) minor skills such as navigation, some major but probably (hopefully) never used ones such as the out of air emergency swimming ascent, and using old ones (descend, ascend, etc). We had another few dives in the pool and then headed to Camp Hope for lunch, followed by 2 more dives at Lake of the Woods.
Diving at the lake was better this time, I was a lot more comfortable doing things and a lot less muck was kicked up off the bottom. After the last required skills (taking your mask off underwater and underwater navigation (go somewhere and head back, hopefully arriving at the place where you started (using a compass))) we got a tour of the lake. I have to say it wasn’t that interesting. Oh it was very cool to move around underwater, to be able to not shoot to the surface or drop like a rock while skimming over the bottom, but seeing alge, rocks, and a few trees (and a beer bottle or two) just didn’t crank my chain too much. I’m looking forward to going someplace interesting (even Whytecliff Park or Porteau Cove) and being able to enjoy seeing things instead of worrying about the actual diving part of it.
Minor Bitch for the Day: People who have the attitude of “I tried and no one did anything so I’m not going to bother” coupled with “I can’t do this because I’m not known enough/close enough to important people/whatever, but since you (Arc) are, you can” and drop it on my shoulders that I’m the only one to make important changes that they want. Why the hell can’t they do it themselves? If whoever it was that said the earth was not the center of the solar system had said, “shit man, no one likes this idea, oh well, fuck it” we’d still be living on a square earth. Changing things is not easy, and sometimes, impossible. Just because I have what I think is a good idea doesn’t mean it is, however, it also doesn’t I should give up if a couple of people turn their noses up at it (on that note, I’d like to bring up the subject of the “give Arc money for no reason campaign”… donations are not a tax writeoff, and are non-refundable, however, if you’d like to consider donating, please contact me immediately 🙂