Today John and I went diving......ears smears....needed to get in the water. We had a few goals on this dive: set 2 stages for Fernando, take GPS coordinates from cenote Kotamundi, survey the new line that has been layed. We accomplished all of our goals. This time our dive was 4.5 hours. We made some adjustments that worked out much better than the previous dive. When we came out of the 4 hour dive earlier in the week, we were completely exhausted. So first things first, today we actually had a pretty substancial breakfast at Don Cafeto's, a restaurant in Tulum. Hot cakes, eggs and tocino (bacon)....yummmy!! On the earlier dive we did not eat breakfast at all really, just a cereal bar. That made all the difference in the world. I read an article about diving and blood sugar levels, that when they get low you can lose focus.....yeah that is me after about 3 hours of diving...have a hard time following the line on a scooter, make bad decisions...that sort of thing. John felt much better after this dive too.
Second, we dove much slower, after the other dive my lungs hurt because when you over exert on a rebreather it is like sucking air through a really small straw....and it is hard on the lungs. Going slower is better.
Third thing is we decided to take the scooters further than we have before....we took them all the way up to the beginning of the new line. Since it was just John and I, we decided to see how much a PIA it would be to push them through the small stuff in order to use them in the bigger sections, especially coming out aginst the flow. Oh yeah, it was worth it!!! On a side note, John has been diving the mini-Gavin scooter that our friend Craig helped to modify. For our non-diving friends, that is a minature version of the long body Gavins we usually ride....it is just smaller.
We added the survey info to the map, and it is really cool. Very exciting.
We also previewed portions of the video that are being put together for the documentary on Mexico TV. If I can figure out how to post some segments here I will. It is pretty cool. Ernesto, one of the guys working on the documentary, filmed some interview portions in our room tonight. Fernando and John did a good job, I got camera fright and basically just stood there. I hope they cut that part out. Plus I had crazy cave hair, since I had not had a shower and it was filmed after our dive today. The funny part is on the video of Fernando in the cave, the scooter says Karen C....hahaaaa!
Since Fernando is out of oxygen and just about every tank he owns needs to be filled, we are taking tomorrow off. My ear will thank me! Maybe we will head to Punta Allen or go see some other ruins....not sure yet...but I will take the camera.
Karen and John
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