Two Eyes? No I have Ten Eyes

Day Twenty Three : 0800
Mood : I have no mood
Temperature : Chilling down

Tuesday was a day of more dive charts and a little quiz. Nothing too thrilling there. I've got a complete grasp on charting so I just sat back and watched some of the other guys get frustrated doing them till somebody would ask for help. Once we finished up the charting, Mick had us watch several DAN (Diver Alert Network) videos on AED's, First Aid/CPR, and signs and symptoms of marine wildlife injuries and the treatments for them. That rounded out the day.

Day Twenty Four : 0800
Mood : River Dive like whaaaat?!?!
Temperature : COLD like 36 degrees COLD

Today started off with a briefing on what we were going to be doing on our River Orientation Dive since this would be the first time diving the river. After the briefing was over, we took our Dive Chart test which I aced. (Seriously, what happened to me since I graduated. Im getting smarter....it feels weird) Once that was done, it was off to the dive station! I spent the morning tending once again, and finally dove at 1409 this afternoon. The instructors had me doing line sweeps which is how you tell the dive to move one direction or another. (ex. "Diver, face your umbilical and sweep to your right.") They sent me out to the Senior Oilfield Pipeline Project trying to get me tangled up in down lines, well instead of getting tangled in down lines...I found another diver. haha I had to of freaked him out since you literally can't see your hand in front of your face. I found it amusing. After that, Mick had me sweep left till they had me stop and told me to search the area. So I'm crawling over the bottom of the Trout river, running into various objects such as pipes, rocks, concrete blocks, etc. Right before I had to go topside, I found myself a lawn chair. I'm pumped just for the fact I found something...underwater...and couldn't even see it. I'm still smiling because of it. I'm going to bed.

oh yeah, rest of the day was spent tending....