PART 4
I HAVE DONE 5 DIVES to the bottom of the blue hole in the last 10 days and it was a lot of fun, but i may be losing steam. Since it is not possible to get more depth here, I had to give myself a new goal for every new dive to still make it both challenging and motivating at the same time.
My goal for dive n.1 was simply to get to the bottom and once i did that ans saw it i felt i had to grab a memento, so then dive n. 2, 3 and 4 were about the sand, and while the first one was 2 meters short because I got there short with my ears, the other 2 failed because of the distance between the plate and the bottom being longer than my arm and shortening the distance between plate and bottom weight didn’t help either.
By the time of N. 5 i had given up the sand and I planned to do the whole dive with bifins (all the other dives were FIM down and bifins up). Despite having recently lost any excitement and interest for bifins (I simply overdid it and did too much of it) it ended up being a great, easy and happy dive.
n. 6 was a struggle: I was conflicted about what the goal would be, and in the end I thought I’d do a little hang at the bottom to mentally prepare for a deeper dive (as I was/am considering the idea of going to Sharm and attempt 100m before going back to Tenerife). My coach Bub (short of Beelzebub) was rather against the idea, and even though snorkel-countdown-Tito said go for it, but then just before the dive we got into a very disturbing conversation about deep narcosis and deep blackout and i started reconsidering. So without a real objective and no focus whatsoever, I went in, started my dive, got caught into an argument with myself about whether I should pee or not during my freefall (I told myself not to and then I disobeyed myself at 60meters) and then got all pissed off, lost my mouthfill, got even more pissed off and turned at 75.
Turning early without a real reason is really uncommon for me. Except for an early turn i did in Sharm during the competition at the end of a very stressful couple of days (bad weather, current, delays, cancellation, lost the day off and tension)for which i had excuses myself, the only times i ever turn early is if i get there short with my equalisation, which is usually a couple of meters from the place, but this giving up mid way is really not something that ever happens.
Tomorrow i should be diving again, but i’m not sure yet what n.6b is going to be about.
