i'm a little bummed. i talked to simon on thursday afternoon. it pretty much went as i thought it would, but that doesn't mean i wouldn't be a little disappointed.
basically he's leading the boat dive, so it's not like he can spend unknown quantities of time with matt or myself trying to work on bouyancy. it was a full boat, which means 8 - 10 people. so we put off getting certified yet again. the plan is to go back to alki at some point in september - probably a weekday with 1 or 2 of guys from the shop who've done a lot more teaching and diving than simon and see what ideas they have, or knowledge they can impart for the situation.
we figured out on sunday i was carring 39 lbs of weights, and the cylinder (full) weighs between 35-40 lbs. so i had between 75-80 lbs of weight on my back, and i only weigh 105!
what we'll do is go out 1 at a time (or like matt'll paddle around on the surface while the guys work with me, they'll weight me with about 20-25 lbs ( i dive with 12 lbs in teh pool) and just work until i can get down to the bottom and stay down there. then i can paddle around while htey do the same with matt.
it's like 3pm now, probably about the time we'd be getting back on the boat getting ready to return to the shore after a day of diving. but we're not there.
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