What can I say about myself. Not like anyone is really gonna read this. Well, I would like to think of myself as a good guy although I
can lose my temper quite easily, so watch out a bit. Nothing personal hehe. I love soccer, that's all I can think about right now. I LOVE
SOCCER! What more can I say? Haha!
I have come back from my check-out dive in San Juan Batangas. It was great and I checked out alright. I am not a certified diver. I must say, my first dive was very...special(not sure if this is the right word). Well, it goes like this. We got all our SCUBA stuff ready, tank, BC, the like. I finally got into my wetsuit, it was quite the challenge. So i finally got into it. Before I got in, of course i made a last minute bathroom stop. Kinda hard to go when you in the suit. The dive master said drink alot of water cause you cant drink the salt water in the ocean(duh). So I drank alot. The briefing took a long time and we were delayed even more cause on of our classmates, Love, is terrifed of the water. She refused to enter the ocean. She had been taunted her whole life that she would die in water. Then why did you take up SCUBA diving? We asked this to ourselves as we saw her refusing to enter the water. We eventually left her and went down. Being underwater is amazing and I love it.
I did have a slight problem, because of all the long delays and all the water I drank before going down, I kinda had to pee. Very bad timing, we just went underwater for the first time and I had to pee. Well, I just kept it in and did what we had to do. We practiced some exercises first. When the diver master and I surfaced during one exercise, I told him how badly I needed to pee. He said, just do it, its the ocean. Well, I tried. But I couldnt. I dont understand. I can not pee if it is not in the proper place. I cant pee on walls or in the outdoors, I just cant do it. Cant explain why. So I went down again. Keeping it in. Man, it was painful already. It really hurt. Had a hard time concentrating. Maybe another 30mins later, I couldnt take it. I grabbed the dive master, and gave him the 'Im not okay' signal. We surfaced and he asked what the problem was, I told him, 'Sir, I cant pee.' He is like 'Oh.' He made me take of all my equipment and stripped my wetsiut down to my waist. I still couldnt go. He said, 'pee here cause the closest bathroom is over there,' he said as he pointed back to shore. I then put my equipment and used my swimming team skills ans swan fast as hell back to shore. Ran up on shore with my tank and everything, screamed at one of the boys to help me get the damn thing off me. Ran to the bathroom and then...heaven. Wahaha, great feeling being able to relieve yourself after such pain.
Man, that was the talk of the day, everyone laughing cause my first dive was ended cause I had to pee....O_O
We had several more dives, mostly uneventful. Except maybe for the last, which was just skin diving. We were practicing our rescue exercises. My partner and I did alot of exercises including how to deal with cramps. As I was helping him with one, he was pretending to be out cold and I was to drag him to shore. Suddenly I got a painful cramp in my right leg. I grabbed him and shook him. Then he realized I was having cramps. Then we used the cramp realxing exercise we practiced a few minutes ago. 'Practical Application' we both laughed to each other.
Now Love, is quite the character. We had 3 dives that day. She refused to go down on the first. On the second, she took 30mins more then us to settle down. She stayed right next to the dive master. And was grabbing his hand the whole time. When we got on shore after that, we all saw taht she had actually deformed a ring the diver master was wearing cause she was holding him to hard. The third dive was just skin diving so we were just on the surface. She had a hard time there. The fourth day, she wasnt allowed to go cause she would slow down the rest of us. It was a dive in open water and we didnt think that she could take it. Not only didnt she have a decent dive, she was the only one to fail the written exam, the only one to fail the course and she lost her cell phone as well. I was her dive buddy and she kept on blamming me for not being more supportive blah blah. What an abusive young lady. I was doing my best and being a perfect gentleman, then she keeps on making 'utos'. Nathan do this, Nathan do that. Grrr...sufficent to say, I wasnt exactly sad when I learned she didnt pass the course.
Thats my diving story. Watch out world, a new diver is coming...
