scarrin

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2002-03-04 05:24:24 (UTC)

*yawn*

Man I am beat...

I just got home from my exciting dive vacation to New
Mexico...it was a really damn taxing weekend...I'm
exhauasted both mentally and physically....

I started out the weekend on Friday night doing my dry
suit dive....no problem...I got into the water, and did my
little thing...and got out...

Second dive....the deep water...ugh...my ears plugged up
on me and I felt like my eardrums were going to break when
I got to about 40 feet deep....it was a total bitch
seriously....I tried my damndest to go down further, but
like I said...I thought my head was going to burst and I
was basically screetching through my mask...I got out of
the water and gave up...it was one of the most painful and
humiliating moments of my life. I am a tough one to
actually give up on something....that was pretty evident
when I threw all my shit all over the place. Everybody was
concerned and they start drilling my ears with alcohol and
whatever else there was....I felt embarrased and I felt
like I had let myself down.

About three hours later...we get ready to do the night
dives...the drysuits go on..and by this time they are
DRENCHING wet with the cold water that's been sitting on
our suits while the temp has gone from about 38 degrees
down to about 14....it was damn fucking cold, and the wind
was going.....I really was hesitant about this dive
because of my ears...but I went ahead and said what the
fuck...besides, by the time I got my drysuit on...all I
wanted to do was get into the water....68 degree water
(which is still damn cold)...versus 14 degrees
outside....that's right - when I got into the water I felt
warmer.....The night dive ended up getting a little
scary....I went down with 3 other students...all of us
were pretty experienced...actually the other 3 were going
after their rescue diver certification...so as you can
imagine they knew what the fuck they were doing
(supposedly)...we took our compass readings and we were
told to make a bearing and set out on it...and then when
we reached the wall we were supposed to turn 180 degrees
and get back to the meet point....this is totally
difficult to do in the night dive though, when the water
is pitch ass black....rather humuorous, we all pretty much
ended up ramming into each other...lmao....it was ok
though...we all got back eventually and surfaced...I swear
I had not taken three steps out of the water when I looked
down at my drysuit...full of fucking ice...not a single
drip of water came down my suit..it had pretty much frozen
in place on me....(I'm still wondering why i didn't get an
ice dive credit for that lol)

Next day....Saturday...7:30AM...I start on my deep
dive...all is good this time....I get down to the bottom,
run around for a little bit...and come back up to the
top...my ears are full of water but I made it...and my
nose lets off some blood....no big deal though...I wipe it
off in the water and the day goes on...

Next dive....I do my second deep dive of the day...to
catch up on the one I missed and got pissed all to fucking
blammie hell about....we go down..I'm ok....still though
down to about 40 feet the pain is damn excruciating on my
ears and face....made it..

Next dive...still Saturday lol....Drysuit dive...nothing
big, but I am DAMN DAMN close to the decompression limits
(which you can die from, for those of you who don't know
lol)....we take it really gingerly...go down to 60 feet,
and then come up and perform the rest of the dive...as
soon as I get out of the water....yeah...I felt it....my
head's all whoozy...and I'm glad I don't have to do
anything else till the night dive..

3 hours go by..I'm literally passed out in the car...lmao..

Night dive...5:30....I actually do two dives here...to
make it a grand total of 5 for the day...alot of damn
dives....the ice isn't as bad this time when we get out,
and actually on these two dives I'm right with the
game....I actually go about half the time without even my
light on to help me see...

That night...I'm fucking spent....everyone knows it and
everyone expects it...I was pretty much in the water the
whole day except for my nap...as one of my higher peers
tells me at dinner...I'm a "perpetual student"...lol...I
still tonight can't believe I crammed in 5 dives...that's
REALLY pushing it...and by saturday night my ears are
completely flooded...I can hear echos when I talk.

Sunday morning...bright and early...7:30AM once
again...throw on the still half cold wetsuit and jump
in....doing my last deep dive...holding a balloon
underwater and watching the damn thing change size within
only a couple feet of the water down deep....I see the
tombstones on the bottom of the hole..and I even get a
couple of good fin whacks on a stupid air force diver
(there were a million of them in there training
lol)......I get out all fine and dandy..my ears still
flooded to hell...and I see my dad get out of the
water...he took some water into his lungs, and it was
bad....much worse than any of my piddly problems..

we load up everything and go...I get my paperwork filled
out by Bill, and say goodbye to all the friends I met on
the trip...all of them VERY skilled and very cool
people..it was a good time..

I take an energy drink in Santa Rosa and pull the weight
on the long ride home...I'm totally happy and proud...what
I went through and accomplished this weekend was HUGE to
me...my smile after I got out of my last dive probably
lasted at least a half hour....anyways...I start driving
home, dad in the passenger side.....he's sick and coughing
up the water he took to his lungs...my dad passes out and
I make the entire way home driving his car...it was
awkward...and probably the most important part of the trip
to me...my dad was always there to take care of me as a
kid, and now the tides had turned..I was taking care of my
old man...it was a weird feeling, but one I was and will
be able to accept....just very strange I guess I can't
describe it...I just felt like a total MAN this
weekend...grrr....I know that probably sounds funny, but
it's true...you women won't be able to understand it, but
any guy would....just an amazing feeling..

needless to say, all these feelings have pretty much made
me numb and out of energy completely physically and
mentally...lol....





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