End to the Freshman Month

Day Twenty Five : 0800
Mood : Relaxed
Temperature : Chilly

Thursday was our second dive day into the river. I spent the morning tending again as per the rotation. And got to dive in the afternoon, my first dive was to assemble the square project, then sweep right to the oil rig project and count the anodes on the tower segment. After the dive was done, it was some more hurry up and wait till the end of the day when I was able to get another 17 minutes. This dive was interesting. We decided to do more line sweeps since I had limited time before we had to shut down the dive station. So we sweep me back 50 feet to a buoy then sweep right where I run right into the side of a concrete block. I climb up the block and lower myself down the other side of the block, turns out I lowered myself right into a hole in the salvage project pipe. Took me about 5 seconds to realize this mistake, whatever, I climb a bit farther in the pipe and shoot my pneumo to find my depth. After we get that reading, I follow my umbilical back and out of the pipe where topside has me start sweeping left. Roger that Topside, step...step...step...no step........and I proceeded to fall roughly 15 feet with absolutely nothing to grab on to and total dis-orientation. Scared the hell out of me. Took a breathe, calmed myself and cautiously followed my umbilicial back to the surface since my bottom time was up. Damn scary.


Day Twenty Six : 0800
Mood : TGIF
Temperature : Cloudy with scattered rain

Today is an easy day. Practiced donning and doffing the hats till 1030 when we started setting up the Mess Hall and PT for the Senior's Graduation. Nice little ceremony which lasted about 45 minutes then a simple Bar-B-Que grillout for everybody for lunch. After we tore-down and put the chairs and tables back, we had our freshman assessment. (Scored a 96/100) Once that was done, we were done for the week. Time to spend the evening next door at Jackie's. The month has flown by, only 3 months left to go.

Day Twenty Seven / Eight : 1130
Mood : Lazy
Temperature : Chilly

I haven't done much this weekend, just relaxed around the dorms. Periodic rain cancelled our plans to go to the beach so we're all just lounging around this weekend.