Naked Diver

ANOTHER SUNDAY FUNDAY: Today I decided to go on the Sunday Funday even though I have a lot of work to do. We had about 40 people so we took two boats this time. When we got about 200 yards from the dock the boat decided it wouldn’t turn left. This was not going to work. The captain added a couple quarts of steering fluid to the mechanism but that didn’t help. They opened a hatch where the rudder assembly is attached and turn it manually. The rudder would turn to the right but not to the left. The other boat which was now a long way from us had to turn around to rescue us. They tied onto us and dragged us back to the dock. We took all of the equipment off the boat and put onto the lodge boat that you see on the lodge web site.

We were now an hour late so we stopped at a nearby dive site called Black Hills. Its hard to find because the buoy is submerged but we had a GPS this time so we located it without a problem. This is surely one of the best dive sites around the island. One of the guys decided to dive naked and that was pretty weird to see someone with scuba gear and no swim suit and his private parts hanging down. Our boat was all students and instructors so no guests saw the stunt – luckily.

We had a great dive. We moved onto the north side and decided to do a drift dive. They dropped us off at a nice wall and it seemed like a great place. However we started swimming in one direction (no current) and the dive turned out to be pretty boring. We only saw one giant grouper and a few small fish. The terrain was very flat and uninteresting after the first 5 minutes.

The boat picked us up about an hour later and we headed for the picnic area. Me and Jamie jumped out and had a quick lunch but then went diving again. Jamie was preparing his dive map and needed a dive buddy. Everyone else wanted to drink so I went with Jamie. We stayed very shallow and didn’t see much interesting but I had a good time anyway just looking around.

I headed back to the apartment for a good nights sleep before starting on all the assignments I have due. We only meet for a half day tomorrow and even less on Tuesday and then we take the “REAL IE” (instructor exam) given by PADI home office staff members.