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There must be some psychological addiction mechanism to nitrogen, I swear....
After a long and frustrating day today, I headed over to the local cove to go diving. It was my first dive in a drysuit, and I was just hoping to have a nice shallow dive to acquaint myself. I ended up being grossly underweighted, getting feet-first several times, and fighting for dear life not to polaris (I never did luckily). On top of this, my suit flooded completely! I finally thumbed the dive after 25 minutes, cursing this voodoo technology of drysuits.
For about 30 minutes afterwards I was totally bummed out. I had been reduced to the diving prowess of an OW checkout student, my buoyancy and trim were completely Charlie Foxtrot, and I was freezing my...ahem... dump valve off.
As soon as I got into the car and started driving home, I realized that in the course of fubar-ing my dive like an idiot, I had gone from being glum and downtrodden to completely happy. I don't know how, but any activity that can do that is something I'll stick with for life
After a long and frustrating day today, I headed over to the local cove to go diving. It was my first dive in a drysuit, and I was just hoping to have a nice shallow dive to acquaint myself. I ended up being grossly underweighted, getting feet-first several times, and fighting for dear life not to polaris (I never did luckily). On top of this, my suit flooded completely! I finally thumbed the dive after 25 minutes, cursing this voodoo technology of drysuits.
For about 30 minutes afterwards I was totally bummed out. I had been reduced to the diving prowess of an OW checkout student, my buoyancy and trim were completely Charlie Foxtrot, and I was freezing my...ahem... dump valve off.
As soon as I got into the car and started driving home, I realized that in the course of fubar-ing my dive like an idiot, I had gone from being glum and downtrodden to completely happy. I don't know how, but any activity that can do that is something I'll stick with for life