SCUBA

Unfortunately my scuba adventure did not end up as I would have liked it. I had some ear equalization issues along with some light sea sickness that caused my first day to get cut short. Not wanting to push my luck I decided that I should not attempt a day 2. I always knew my ears were a potential problem. I had issues in every dive at the pool, but my previous open water dive in 2000 was fine after a while of adjustment. Well that seemed like a fluke since I had issues this trip. Hearing being a big part of my life I won’t push my luck on the subject again. That means I most likely wont pursue diving as a hobby anymore. It was an expensive experiment, but worth the attempt. I still have a year to change my mind before the class I took expires, but I don’t think I will act on it.

As for the sea sickness I hope that was a fluke. I never get motion sick. Not sure what was up with that. Probably just the heat and the water movement put me over the edge for a while. As long as I can fly and travel in a car without a problem I will be ok.

On the plus side I got a great day at the pool on Sunday instead of going diving!!!

I scheduled my 4 test out dives for Saturday and Sunday this week while I am on vacation. This whole scuba thing is costing allot of money. Hopefully it is worth it. I am excited as well as nervous about the dives. For one thing I am still worried about my ears. Getting up to altitude on the plane caused some pain, and I had issues in the pool with equalizing my pressure at 10 feet. I know from the last time I dove that I had to give it some time on the first dive until I got used to it. So hopefully I will be ok.

My other concerns are the tasks I need to perform on these dives. Most of them aren’t bad, but a few are hard and I don’t like doing them. I hope to get as many of them out of the way on the first few dives as I can so the last few are relaxing.

The place for diving is a block away from the hotel so I can just walk there. The other good news is the dives don’t begin until 12:30PM each day. That means I can sleep in. It is like this place said how can we cater our schedule for Scott? I can sleep in and get some breakfast without having to rush to the dive boat.

I will update the blog with impressions from the dive later.

Last Saturday I took my Scuba class. It was a 8+ hour day of study and pool time. In a nutshell it was allot of hard work. My ears still have some issue equalizing the first time I goto depth. I really wont know how I take it in the ocean until get in it. The pool is different since you cannot go that deep. I ended up getting a migraine during the last piece of the class. I was able to complete all the scuba pieces of it, but I got a bit sick after that. I tried to do the last part (treading water for 10 minutes) but I was shivering and freezing. The instructor said I could come back later in the week and complete it. the pool was closing very soon and I didn’t have time to warm up and try again. I got home from the class that night and went right to bed.

later that next week I did my tread water test. that was the easiest part of the whole class. I was able to just lie in the pool and not touch the side or bottom for 10 minutes. All I have left is my 4 open water dives. I hope to do them all in Cancun next week.

So my scuba diving class for this weekend is out. Instead I am going golfing with 7 other people from work tomorrow. I will try to reschedule the scuba class for later in july. I still really want to do this.