i never forget my GPS, camera, and dive watches. yesterday i did 62 dives, and joshua used my other watch and dove 61 times. add seth and gen and we dove a total of 200 dives. these kids were only diving half as me last week and now they are keeping up. and i’m sure they will pass me by soon.
so after we woke up early, dove all day, ate lunch, and cleaned fish, we were so tired and ready to go in. WAIT!!! i turn my boat straight out to sea. we hit the deep blue sea. i tell the kids, ok, get ready because this is where training begins. if you don’t grab sand off the bottom of the sea, i’m not taking you home. haha. pure pressure. you should have seen their faces, in total shock. they didn’t want to do it. but i wasn’t kidding. seth goes first and dives 60′. josh ended up diving 50′, and gen at 47′. as we headed back in, i told the kids that if we did this in the morning when our bodies were fresh, you could have dove about 20′ more. but that’s too easy. someday, these kids will get held down by a big wave somewhere in the world when it’s either life or death. this type of training will help. how do i know? because it saved my own life more times you could ever imagine. and if i didn’t freedive, i would have died a long time ago.
i’ve been so busy that i totally don’t have time to maintain my equipment. this is the wishbone that holds the rubber while the gun is loaded. as i was carrying my speargun in the water, it just broke all of a sudden. luckily i still have my finger. people lose fingers this way, i almost lost mine.
if i wasn’t wearing a glove, my pinky would be gone. this will hurt for a long long time. itai!
