blogging and gmail

because of gmail, i don't really see the point of blogging as much as i did before. maybe it was just a i want to blog phase? who knows. maybe. have yet to get back into it after the long "pause".

oh! i wasn't able to tell you about this moo. but i had quite a dive weekend this past weekend. was assisting dick with a group of his checkout divers. and it what happened really shook me. my job was to flank the group while keeping an eye on certain divers who i knew were slightly nervous. there were 7 divers on their checkout, and a couple others who were on their first fun dives after their checkout. aside from dick, there were 2 divemasters along with the group too. (just cause you love detail)

anyway, happened on the second dive. this one guy (ed). he went into a panic involving his regulator and some water. but even before this, i already saw him sort of struggling, and beginning to hyperventilate. so i swam closer to him. i watched him try repeatedly to purge his reg, but that didn't seem to help him. so i gave him my spare. which he took. seemed fine. then he started pointing up like he wanted to swim up. well, in the end, despite my best attempts to calm him and slow him down, we ended up shooting up from 60ft! lord.

at the surface i was just waiting for some sort of popping or bloody taste OR the bends. call me paranoid! but in the end, as you can see, i'm fine. we both were. just scared the hell out of me. all weekend long, i was completely OA about any little ache i had!

in the end, he finished the course and was completely thankful to me. so was his wife (was with us, but not diving). weekend ended well. thank God!! :)