Advanced Diver

Ok... So today is Thursday.
Wednesday... fuck my memory is so bad! Um, lemme think today.. OK got it. Yesterday I had a horrific hangover/still drunk moment in the morning because we had a spontaneous massive piss up went swimming in the sea drank dirty alcohol... Standard procedure.
In the afternoon I had 2 dives working on peak buoyancy and navigation which went fine. Saw 2 moray eels, little box fish, some massive trigger fish. Good times.
Then came back to the dive shop with enough time to get some dinner then head out again for a night dive which was absolutely amazing. The sunset was stunning, and the moon was gorgeous and big and orange when it rose fringed with red clouds. Breath-taking.
We waited until it was dark enough, kitted up, did out buddy checks then jumped in. The descent was quick - we were only goign to about 12m. Down at the bottom it's like a completely different world. I dived White Rock again today and I couldn't say that it was the same site. The world only seems to exist where your torch light shines. Anything past that is nothing - complete darkness. We saw loads of barracuda which was amazing. Also, we could cover our torches, wave our arms about like a crazy person and see all the phospherous shining around us like 'angel dust' as Paul calls it.
After coming back I was absolutely shattered, had a couple of beers at the dive bar, watched a bit of a film with Arj and Chris then couldn't keep my eyes open any more and ended up going home @ about half 10!
Slept the whole night through and went for mornign dives. Annoyingly, despite my cold clearing up loads I just couldn't equalise for my deel dive and Chumphon which pissed me off magnificantly. I couldn't even get past the 5m mark and had to come back up again and reside on the boat with some pineapple. Managed to clead my ear enough to do my multi-level dive @ White Rock which was wicked. Saw massive grouper, tiny tiny clown fish, and big trigger fish again. After the second dive my ear was caning so bad, the pain just tired me out. Once we got back to the dive shop we had our de-briefing then I went and had some lunch with Amelie. Luckily she understood that I could do nothing but just lie with my head on the table lol.
Have just spent the afternoon lounging around in bed listening to some Bob Sinclar and the Imagination Land episode of South Park, and am just chilling in a bar in the village with my laptop (they have wi-fi) before heading to the dive shop to do my dive log (fin times).
Tonight I'm doing bugger all. Am supposed to be diving tomorrow mornign so I can actually do my deep dive but I don't think my ear will be ok by then so might have to leave it til the next day which is annoying because I'll be a day behind on getting signed off as an advanced open water diver, but what can you do. I'm not going to risk going out and turning a day's worth of damage into a week's because I force an equalise and bruise my ear drum.

Talking about amazing stories though (not that my ear is amazing), my instructor Paul learnt to dive, well, comes from Zimbabwe, and is a trained tech diver which means he can dive to depths of up to 150m, which he has done in this cave which is about 25m in diameter, and is freshwater and limestone purified. This means that at 150m down, you can see all the way to the top of the cave and up the the trees above. How amazign is that? He planned that dive over two months and had a team of 20 people helping him and his buddy by organising and working out oxygen and nitrogen mixes for the different tanks they had dropped off at different depths for them to change onto. Absolutely amazing.

Well, I'll see if I can get another tall tale out of the guys at the bar tonight. That's all from me for a coupld of days.
Ciao Ciao xxx