Finding our Way
The ones who haven’t had a chance to try the mask yesterday are giving it a go today and have all brought their regulators in for Tato to change them over.
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All of us will be busy trying to find our way in zero visibility water, to increasingly difficult targets.
I’m paired up with Juan Carlos today and it’s nice to change it up a little every once in a while. He’s really comfortable underwater and nails the orientation exercise the first try. My turn to find the target. I’m having some trouble equalising as we descend and I ask Juan Carlos to stop and go slow. Ok, it’s working. down we go, that’s the way. My ears are bothering me again, I lift my head equalise and hear the familiar “beeeeeep” that signals congestion. “Damn it”, I think and lift my head a bit higher to take some pressure off and try again. It worked, but I might have lost my bearing a little bit. Hang on, look at the compass, that’s the way. We go a bit further and I can start to feel the pressure build up on my ears again. Equalising is getting harder and harder and I decide to stop. I signal Juan Carlos that I’m having trouble with my ears and begin our ascent. As we slowly swim to the surface I have to blow my nose into my mask a few times, to relieve the pressure now pushing from the inside. I signal Cesar on the pier that I’m having problems with my ears and he orders me out of the water. I feel bad that Juan Carlos can’t continue with the exercise, but relieved that I’m done for the day. My sinuses could use some rest.
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Still Theory
Like every day the fun, underwater part isn’t everything. We have started calculating partial pressures, tabulating decompression and altitude dives and studying the physiological impacts of diving with its potential accidents. It’s all quite intense and Tato goes through the topics at a steady pace. Remembering all the new vocabulary in Spanish will be a challenge.