phoenix09
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Just got my AOW this weekend! It was so much fun - did wreck, buoyancy, and night dives on Friday, then deep and UW nav on Saturday. I was diving in Lake Travis in Austin, so the wreck dive was pretty cool, we got to go around a sunken sailboat a couple times. I was actually more nervous about the deep dive than the night dive, but both ended up going pretty well. Only mishap on the night dive was when my buddy and i got separated, then the instructor and i lost each other...but we all came up before long and found each other again.
The deep dive was very relaxing, surprisingly enough...we went down to 82 ft and had to sign our names and open a combination lock. It didn't take me too much longer underwater, so I guess nitrogen narcosis didn't affect me too much...but I do remember being much more focused than normal while trying to open the lock. Our instructor also had us take tennis balls down on the dive, and we took them out at depth to see that they had imploded from the pressure. We had to practice buddy-breathing for 8 minutes on our saftey stop, though, and I did NOT enjoy that. My buddy told me afterward that my eyes were "as wide as saucers", and I was very fixated on the regulator whenever I didn't have it in my mouth!
All in all, it was a fun weekend, though I did wake up incredibly sore the day after the dives were finished, from lugging the gear up and down about 40 steps each dive.
The deep dive was very relaxing, surprisingly enough...we went down to 82 ft and had to sign our names and open a combination lock. It didn't take me too much longer underwater, so I guess nitrogen narcosis didn't affect me too much...but I do remember being much more focused than normal while trying to open the lock. Our instructor also had us take tennis balls down on the dive, and we took them out at depth to see that they had imploded from the pressure. We had to practice buddy-breathing for 8 minutes on our saftey stop, though, and I did NOT enjoy that. My buddy told me afterward that my eyes were "as wide as saucers", and I was very fixated on the regulator whenever I didn't have it in my mouth!
All in all, it was a fun weekend, though I did wake up incredibly sore the day after the dives were finished, from lugging the gear up and down about 40 steps each dive.