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Saturday, January 31, 2004

Underwater love

I am now a fully qualified PADI open water diver. Spent 10 mintutes at 30 meters below this morning which is quite deep, so deep that your brain starts to get slower. I wrote my name and address on the boat and took 22 seconds to do it. Down on the bottom of the ocean, although trying to piss the diving instructor off by doing it quicker, it took me 27 seconds. Quite amazing - you still *think* you are at full speed, but you just aren't. Also swam through a school of Barracuda and down through a natural coral "chimney" at Sail Rock. In the best words of an American teenie - it was awesome.