This pales in comparison with the evening I had. Hus and I went diving in Outram Sec again. I was trying out diving in doubles, a.k.a. twin tanks… It was really fun for me to try it out the first time and need not carry the tanks on me until the water… The stability was remarkable in twins. Of course not too far off my AGIR single wing, but a whole lot of difference in Halcyon single. But the buoyancy control is very very different, a bit of air introduced and released makes a great deal of depth change.
The twins weren’t too comfortable for me as my body is shorter than most divers, hence my head wasn’t resting well on the manifold (the metal tube that connects the 2 tanks together). I couldn’t look in front, I can only look down. If I try to look in front, I’m out of trim. That’s very frustrating.
Being in good trim is very impt, especially to me, a good trim makes you look good and different under water… the body should be parallel to the floor/seabed, a straight body from chest to knees. It’s not that easy in doubles. I would love to grow taller, if not, a doubles that suit me well!
Other than that, the water works are fine. Hus was drilling me on drills. The basic 5s, valve-drill, out-of-air and they repeat and repeat. Just to make sure that they went into my head and stayed there for LIFE!!! Hus was an instructor under water, so that I would be able to be capable enough to buddy him on tech dives in future (still far from it). His expectations are only reasonable in a high risk hobby like diving deep.
Well, I wasn’t smooth as I was on land. Dive skills I mean; cos my whiny and bargaining spirit were still clearly displayed in water. I did my drills pretty slowly so that I will recall every step without missing any one of it. Hus said being slow is not acceptable when I argued to be calm instead. Well, you choose to be slow and steady or hasty and miss. I think when training with Hus, the former is preferred cos he’ll start to nag at my mistakes when we’re on land again, then he ridicules, laughs and mocks repeatedly. Till I’m more familiar…i shall still be slow.
Hus was nice yesterday; he bought me a rash guard so that I dun have to squeeze into my tiny wetsuit. He was a husband when he did that. Then he was patient and nice in the water, which is rare, that he’s an instructor. He rarely uses positive feedback with me (as a wife) so I enjoyed his mentorship last evening.
We’re going Pulau Aur this weekend!
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