Today was a bit of a slow day.
I spent the morning doing some admin stuff at the apartment, feeding electric meter via PayPal and some other class reading.
I had tried to arrange a noon set of 2 dives, but I got asssigned a maintenance mission that would overlap in the PM.
Scuba diving training calls for the first 4 dives to be in confined open water, which is normally a pool. There isn’t really a sufficient pool here, so in the lagoon at the shop, they have laid out sections of blue tarp on the bottom in 6 feet and 10 feet of water.
This is where initial sections of training or basic skills are conducted. It works well here actually, but the blue tarps get covered in algae and silt. So once a week or so (I suspect longer) they “sweep” and “lightly scrub” the tarps. The two areas are basically 20’x20’ and 35’x20’ respectively. 3 of us were issued push brooms and told to get at as best we could.
We took about an hour to sweep scrub as best we could. At the end there was so much junk up in the water the visibility was maybe six inches.
We came back this morning at 6am tondo it again but this time just to get the silt that had settled overnight. There were four of us this time and it took us about 30m.
When we finished yesterday I was pretty pessimistic about our efforts. Today however, they were pretty pleased.
I chalk this assignment up to half hazing and half need. Everybody gets the assignment and we did well.
When done at about 6pm, I settled for a few Salva Vidas (local beers) with some of the instructors. I then headed to apartment to cook up some rice and spaghetti sauce. Quite good and made a couple days worth.
I Know, boring note.
Im jealous