There are days when you have customers who make you want to scream (and you do, underwater, in your reg). There are days when you tell yourself you don’t get paid enough to deal with customers like those. There are days, you look at the time and it’s only been a 30 minute dive and you think it was a waste really (and if you had to rinse your own gear, you’d be pissed). Then there are those days when the customers are such a pleasure and good divers and no work at all and you get out of the water and you can’t believe that you actually get paid to do this.
This pretty much sums up the past two days of diving I’ve had. Yesterday’s Discos right near drove me out of my skull. First of all, they were both just about climbing on top of me. Then, one of them thought he was leading the dive. After telling him to get back behind me a bunch of times, I finally had to get angry and let him know that unless he knew where he was going he needed to stay behind me. Don’t know if he heard me, but he got the gist and behaved the rest of the short short short dive.
Today, I got to dive with our two star pupils, Claire and her brother Richard, who’ve now done EFR, Rescue and two specialties with us. We had a lecture on U/W Digital Photography yesterday and today they took the cameras out and did their two dives. They’re decent enough on air for newer divers; they listen real well; and have a good couple of brains between the two of them. I led them on two gorgeous dives watching them click away through three leopard (zebra) sharks, many nemos and a turtle. We did my two favorite sites today – Bida Nai on dive one where we saw the three sharks – they were thrilled since they hadn’t seen a shark yet and doubly thrilled that they’re able to take photographic evidence home with them. Our second dive was on Table Coral City which is quickly becoming one of my favorite spots. More often than not, I’ve seen turtles there and it’s a really pretty series of coral formations with lots and lots of critters. It’s fishtastic. I came out of the water feeling like I’d just done two fun dives. Today was not work.
Ryan is working with an open water student who wondered into the shop yesterday and I have the rest of the day off. I’m feeling a bit like a nap coming on, but I’m also wanting to get back out to the tattoo place to see what they’ve come up with for my Thai ocean tattoo. A couple of our students got matching his/hers tattoos – very very pretty and really nice work, so I’ve found a tattoo artist I like. Claire, Richard and I went to seen them the other day and they’re drawing me a tattoo. I haven’t had a chance to go back there yet to see what they’ve come up with.
Consider for a moment how different a well loved Pixar movie would have been if it took the following into consideration:
The biggest clownfish on an anemone is female. The next smallest is male and is 20% smaller. All the others are 20% smaller than that and are equally male. When the female dies, the “first” male changes into a female and each of the smaller ones grows by 20%. Not sure what happens if a male dies, but by this logic, it stands that all the others just grow to fill in whatever gap that male has left.
So consider then the opening of that well loved Pixar movie in which little Nemo has lost his mum. When suddenly his dad is his mum. No it’s his dad. No it’s his mum. The rest of the story would have been vastly different starring Glen Close as Ms. Tuttle Turtle the child psychiatrist (in this one she doesn’t boil bunnies).
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