2 final PADI comments and notes about today

[webcowgirl]

I forgot 2 things about the scuba training.

1. We had to use spit to defog our face masks. Given that even the shit dive shop in La Paz had defogger, I thought this was just the height of cheap and tacky.

2. When we were doing the in-water getting-back-into-your-gear exercise, one of the clips I'd just undone to get the thing off caught in my braid. It was embarassing (a little) and painful (a little more) and a huge fucking pain in the ass that I really hope never to encounter 20 feet below the surface.

Today I had a lazy day with french toast and then tacos and then a quick tube to Waterloo and the Puppet Theater of Terror! at the Southbank Center. (I'm going to write it up but I haven't yet.) Afterwards I met exedore and we went to dinner at the HK Cafe in Chinatown; with a little arm twisting he convinced me to go to a place called Amorino and have one of their 24 different kinds of hot chocolate for dessert. I got pooped out (I am still beat today) and headed back home at around 8. Now it's almost 10 and I've been cleaning the house and now reading a little bit (Last Dragonslayer, enjoying it a lot). I'm going to be getting in an early night, but first I have a review to do ...

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

Heh... no, everyone I've ever been taught by teaches the spit method and I don't know one experienced diver who buys defogger. The spit is free and it works.

[pir.livejournal.com]

I find some defogger works better than spit (more even defogging across the glass), so do actually buy it sometimes. I'm out of practice but am an experienced diver.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Ah... fair enough. I've now encountered one experienced diver who buys it. :-)

I teach the spit method myself and tell my students not to waste money on defogger. Mind you I have come across the idea that some people's spit works better than others -- perhaps you don't have very "defoggy" spit.

Maybe I should do a test with spit on one lens and defogger on the other to compare. A few years ago though when I doubted the idea that toothpaste should be used on a new mask I did an entire dive with one lens fogged up -- it drove me crazy!

[butterbee.livejournal.com]

Yep, I was taught the spit method too when I learned snorkeling.