Diving Deep

We did our first open-water dive today, on a wreck at 68 feet. Amazing! It was just like Finding Nemo...except with less color (everything looks green or brown). Hundreds--if not thousands--of little fish swam around us, along with schools of larger fish. It was neat being able to see where we were going, too; after the pierside dives, this seemed crystal-clear. I got myself at near-neutral bouyancy (i.e. the bouyant force of my "bouyancy compensator"--basically a suped up bag of air--was about equal to my weight), so when I stepped on the bottom it was a bit like walking on the moon. Pretty cool.

On Friday we'll be getting our Scuba pins and graduating...in the meantime, I'm having a fun time arguing with the Nuclear Power School about reporting early...

Posted 22:46 PST