Day 33: Learning to swim

Today I woke up in pain from snowboarding and took a couple ibuprofen. I had all my normal classes except for my games technology tutorial since the professor is in the hospital. After my classes, I took the 700 to city campus and walked to the scuba centre for my second closed water lesson.

At the centre, I took my test and got my kit then waited until we were ready to go to the pool. I was the only person taking the CW2 lesson. The first skill was a full mask flood and then a minute without a mask on. Clearing a mask is easy so, the full mask flood wasn’t bad. The second part of removing the mask for a minute wasn’t great though. Every time I would breathe out through my regulator, the bubbles would go straight up my nose. It was only for a minute though. The next skill was to find or what it feels like when you’re or of air. For this skill, the instructors turn of your tank and, you signal at 50bars and when you’re out. When you signal that you’re out they immediately turn it back on so, you never actual get to the point that you’re “drowning”. All of this was suppose to be in the deep end but, I couldn’t get my left ear to equalize at the beginning. After completing the skills, I was free to swim around and practice with adjusting my buoyancy. Apparently, I use my finds like I’m riding a bike and not like I’m swimming. Because of this and the fact that I couldn’t equalize, the instructor told me that I need a couple practice sessions before I can move on to CW3. I scheduled the first fire this Saturday. Back at the flat, I ate done sandwiches and watched a couple more episode of Battlestar.

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