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Jenny and my first dive together!

2012.06.23, 09:46 – Dive #7

Breakwater, Monterey, CA

  • Buddy: Jenny!
  • Computer: Oceanic Veo 2.0 (wrist mount)
  • Weight: 29Lbs (too much)
  • Water Temperature: 54°F
  • Beginning Pressure Group: n/a
  • Max Depth: 25′ (Profile)
  • Bottom Time: 0:33
  • Ending Pressure Group: F
  • Bottom Time to Date: 3:33

Guided tour from Seven Seas Scuba instructor, Preston.  He was awesome and helped carry Jenny’s Scuba unit down to the beach and into the water to keep her knee happy.  Once she was all geared up we swam out a bit and tried descending.  Jenny had to come up to the surface quick just to calm her nerves and breathe through her reg for a minute, and then we went down again.  Visibility wasn’t that impressive at first but got better as we swam away from other groups.  Tons of starfish and a few decorator crabs, one of which I noticed while we were looking at a HUGE sun starfish for a bit, and realized that kelp was walking away from us.  Jenny put a sea cucumber in Preston’s hands for some reason, and I saw a bird swimming around at the bottom.

Jenny’s knee started feeling a bit sore towards the end of the dive, so rather than risk really hurting it we packed up, called it a day, and went out for a sushi lunch.

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Don’t fuck with my BCD, Tom.

Adam told me he found some weird header on my site and I spent forever trying to track down what the hell my site got infected with and how.  Then it was new years and Tom got super drunk and broke into my place and started fucking up my BCD and I got super pisseed at ohim and yelling about how my life depended on it working properly.

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Drysuit certification!

2012.06.16, 09:14 – Drysuit Dive #1

Breakwater (pipe), Monterey, CA

  • Buddy: Instructor
  • Computer: Oceanic Veo 2.0 (wrist mount)
  • Weight: 28Lbs
  • Water Temperature: 53.1°F
  • Beginning Pressure Group: n/a
  • Max Depth: 44′ (Profile)
  • Bottom Time: 0:29
  • Ending Pressure Group: I
  • Bottom Time to Date: 2:24

Started off rocky with my original buddy, who couldn’t descend properly for a host of reasons I’m sure he feels like he can explain rationally.  Eventually Instructor grew frustrated enough to have me go to the bottom and do fin pivots and hovering, and we went back to shore.  The 15 minutes it took before we went back to shore I’m not quite counting in all my diving crap, though I merged the profiles together.

Then Instructor and I went back out, I took my BCD off and put it back on quick, and we went for a tour along the pipe by ourselves.  Saw a crapton of starfish and sun starfish, a decorator crab, and I think a shrimp.  Visibility cleared up once we got away from the anchor and I discovered I started getting cold at almost exactly 30′ in my drysuit.

2012.06.16, 12:25 – Drysuit Dive #2

Breakwater, Monterey, CA

  • Surface Interval: 1:33
  • Weight: 26Lbs
  • Water Temperature: 50°F
  • Beginning Pressure Group: B
  • Max Depth: 43′ (Profile)
  • Bottom Time: 0:36
  • Ending Pressure Group: P
  • Bottom Time to Date: 3:00

Original buddy decided he could do this dive, took him forever to get his skills all dealt with while I both waited on the surface and by the anchor underwater.  Visibility was much worse at the beginning of this tour, and Instructor making it clear to buddy up with her.  We saw a couple giant crab, along with every starfish ever.  I checked my depth when I started feeling cold and was at 29′.  On our way back Original buddy started becoming too buoyant and rising over us.  We eventually surfaced when he couldn’t get it under control, and then decided to head back down for the swim back to shore.  Instructor gave me a bearing to follow since we had no anchor and visibility had become shit again, in case we got separated.

Got separated we did!  Apparently my aluminum tank made it hard for me to get back under once half-empty.  They descended without a problem and I sat struggling at the top until I forced my way under the water and then kicked myself deeper until I could control things again.  I followed the bearing at a slightly faster than casual pace, not wanting to have them possibly waiting on me at shore.  It was fun riding the surge with a single little frog kick and I eventually found myself in a school of probably a couple hundred really tiny fish.  They swam off about as soon as I noticed them.

I swam to about 5′ before surfacing and then stood and watched for them while riding the swell.  Turned out that they realized the aluminum was probably throwing me off, and went to surface, but by that time I had already forced myself under and gone on my merry way.

And now I’m certified to use a drysuit, which is perfect because Jenny and I have our first dive together scheduled for next week!

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Fighting witchnazis!

We were hiding from so me evil witches in the attick of some house.  I got a very holocausty vibe from the dream and they were only coming for y brother and i.  We uesd Michelle’s giant room-sized sniper riffle to try and stop them, along  with magic and throwing things at them.  The house was made by corkscrewing floors onto one atnother.  I remember far less than I wish of this one.

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Informing horrible people that they are so.

I had built some secret buried time travel box in the floor of an old russian building, which had a tunnel to it from the floor of my parents shed.  I kept it secret fro years but eventually wanted to show people and see exactly where it would take me.  I considered going into it and going back in time which would essentially kill the present time me, and was just about to do it until I gave it a second thought and decided against it.

Then Jenny and I were on an island and saw some people having hamster races for money and also selling the losers off for cheap. I  put on some flippers arnd swam to the netx island over where a woman sold large birds.  I asked if I could orrow a falcon to teach the hamster people a lesson, and she said I could keep it.  The falcon carefully crawled onto my finger and I held my hand in the air as I swam back over.  I laughed and shook my hand to et the falcon to fly off and find a hamster to tea.  It went up in a tree to eat it and I laughed more at them and told them they were all horrible people.  It landed back on my hand for a second hamster and when it flew off to grab one it accidentally hit the tent they were undera nd fell to the ground.  I tried rushing to grab it before someone attacked the falcon, but someone grabbed its leg.  I woke up trying to pull it free carefully.