A few of the interns hanging out after “Assault on soi 6” back at the mansions…
This is what the skies looked like this evening before it pissed down raining.
Fucking awesome.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
Feel free to stop reading, dickfor. [/quote]
What’s a dickfor?
Finally, we get some debauchery. Is that how you are paying for dive school?
Congrats on passing your exams. Pardon me for saying so, but it looks like you’re adding some ballast around the middle (not that I’m looking or anything).
DB
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
What’s a dickfor?
[/quote]
Ha, please tell me you’re just setting me up.
[quote]
Pardon me for saying so, but it looks like you’re adding some ballast around the middle (not that I’m looking or anything).
DB [/quote]
HA! Yeah, I am. Honest, the whole IDC and now MSDT (which has been stretched out far too long because the course director is running too much at once) has been more draining than I had ever imagined. This week SHOULD be the end of the MSDT portion, so I’m going to be getting my ass back into the gym.
Feel free to look, by the way, you’re only human.
[quote]Roual wrote:
It may just be me, but that whole wreck incident sounds like fun, I love dives like that for some insane reason.[/quote]
Oh, all of us thoroughly enjoyed the dive, especially since we didnt get bent. haha.
I wish I didnt have to do a training dive for that dive, the drift was TONS of fun, it’d have been sweeter if I could have done it for an hour instead of under a minute.
Today I finished the first part of my specialty instructor course. For the deep spec, one of the things you have to do is a simulated decompression stop at 5m for 8 minutes, the last minute breathing off someones alternate or buddy breathing with someone. So, last minute… I’m “out of air” and grab my buddy’s alternate, clear it, inhale… choking. I got a mouthful of water.
Absolutely hilarious. So, I switched back to my own and called it a day.
I also got a massive sunburn.
Tuesday I start my first course I’m teaching. Yikes.
The past few days a former intern was back in town, so a few of us went out. Ultimately, it ended up as me, the ex intern, and one more current intern.
We all went out to walking street, “just for a few beers.”
…And shots of tequila.
At one of the bars we normally frequent, two girls were dancing, and one of them had to be one of the hottest girls I’ve ever seen if not the hottest. After 5 shots of tequila, I had it in my head I was going to bar fine her. I asked her, and she said she couldn’t leave. I then asked the owner, and he said the dancers stay all night. Fuck.
After that, I realized I was out of cash. Again, fuck.
I was with only one other intern at this point. I’m still not sure Tyler ended up. At this point, the only thing on my mind was getting laid tonight. I borrowed 10 bucks from him, bar fined this chick and brought her home.
This morning there were opened, used, and unopened condoms everwhere. Phenomenal.
So there.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
The past few days a former intern was back in town, so a few of us went out. Ultimately, it ended up as me, the ex intern, and one more current intern.
We all went out to walking street, “just for a few beers.”
…And shots of tequila.
At one of the bars we normally frequent, two girls were dancing, and one of them had to be one of the hottest girls I’ve ever seen if not the hottest. After 5 shots of tequila, I had it in my head I was going to bar fine her. I asked her, and she said she couldn’t leave. I then asked the owner, and he said the dancers stay all night. Fuck.
After that, I realized I was out of cash. Again, fuck.
I was with only one other intern at this point. I’m still not sure Tyler ended up. At this point, the only thing on my mind was getting laid tonight. I borrowed 10 bucks from him, bar fined this chick and brought her home.
This morning there were opened, used, and unopened condoms everwhere. Phenomenal.
So there.[/quote]
…now you and me will never happen. Congrats
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RYAN!
I taught my first course the other day. It was rescue. Kind of a christening by fire, but it was tons of fun.
The first day I taught EFR in the classroom, then the day after academic work in the classroom, both of which sucked. The day after was on the boat, doing hands on training sessions. The day after was “scenario day.” On that day the whole boat full of interns stage emergency scenario’s for these three rescue divers to take care of. Fucking awesome.
The beginning of scenario day, we pull out of port and are immediately hit with 6-8 foot swells. Good day for a scenario day. We cut the plans to go to the far islands, and went to a closer, more protected near island.
We went on a dive at the kood, which sits at 30 meters, and me, the three rescue students, and three DM’s are swimming along the side of the boat. I pinged my tank banger, which meant that me, and the three DM’s take our masks off, spit out regs, and generally just cause havoc for the students to react to.
I was sitting there for about 45 seconds at 30m without a mask on, and no reg in my mouth before the students could actually see that I couldnt breathe, which kind of sucked, but funny. Right, good job guys, your buddy’s dead. Kinda.
We get back onto the tank deck, where we do the same thing again hahah. This time they handled it way quicker.
We finally ascend up the line to our 5m safety stop. One of the DM’s, started to fully inflate his BCD as if he were to shoot up to the surface, when all three students grabbed him and stopped him. He was happy they noticed him doing it. hahaha.
We get back on the boat, dekit, have a debreif on the dry deck. Meanwhile, three interns are putting mask fins and snorkel on to jump off once the boat pulls off the mooring. So, they had to swim and get them. One of them, hahahaha, had to swim for about 5 minutes against the current, only to make no progress and realize he can ask for help towing the diver back to the boat. Between three of them, that took about another 5 minutes. Classic.
Right after lunch, we had two “missing divers” for them to find.
They kit up, and with the help of the spotters, found the first one off the anchor in about 4 minutes. Rescue breaths back to the boat, on the boat, good job. Go help Gary and Beau find the other diver.
After 16 minutes, I jumped in and swam under the boat and told the missing diver to unwedge himself from right underneath the boat and just float at the surface. None of the rescue divers ever actually look right underneath the boat. Fucking histerical.
Right after, we went on our “carnage dive.” Basically, it’s a regular dive along the coral/sand until about 5 mintues in when I, and the three DM’s started ripping regs out, masks off, “running out of air” and basically everything else that could go wrong.
Tank banger pings, DM swims at me and starts fighting me, reg out, mask off, and silt to all fuck. As the students are taking alternates out, finding masks, and just being in the middle of a clusterfuck of chaos altogether, I slipped out of my kit. So, I’m sitting there with no mask, no reg, no tank on my back, and 2 kilo’s of weight on me at 12m waiting for them to sort it out.
In all of the commotion, we lost my kit and mask. I’m breathing off of an alternate swimming around, still without a mask, with 6 other divers looking for my kit. After 4 minutes, we surfaced.
Go down, find the kit, put it on… Out of air, reg out, more fighting, more silt. Absolute histerics.
A few minutes after that, we ended the dive and get back on the boat. Awesome.
Our diving for the day was over, but other interns and customers still had one more dive on the Kood. Awesome. I pulled a customer aside, who was a good diver, and an all around cool guy, and asked him when he came up to start yelling about an unconcious diver.
Obviously, the intern he was diving with was in on it, too, and was unconcious upon surfacing. The look on the student’s faces were absolutely brilliant when they heard a customer screaming. They werent expecting that haha.
So they get in (while the rest of the interns are putting fins on and acting like it’s not planned) and rescue him. Again, fucking awesome. A minute later, an SMB popped up abotu 300m away. The students were putting their fins on again to get in and “rescue” them.
They were releived at that.
Then an intern was complaining about being “bent.” Students set up O2 kit, and take care of him.
On the way back to the dock, all three of the students were sitting on the back of the boat in their wetsuits, kit set up, air on. I told them the day was over and there werent going to be any more surprises.
hahahaha. Fucking AWESOME day.
Hey, did the cyclone impact Pattaya at all? I know the tail winds of the storm hit some of the northern regions of Thailand. Did that make for rough seas where you are?
Ryan you’re really droppin’ the ball here
[quote]Yo Momma wrote:
Hey, did the cyclone impact Pattaya at all? I know the tail winds of the storm hit some of the northern regions of Thailand. Did that make for rough seas where you are?[/quote]
No, we werent affected, thank God. There were a few days of fun swells around here, though.
[quote]Unkie25 wrote:
Ryan you’re really droppin’ the ball here[/quote]
Yeah, I know. I’ve been quite busy with teaching and just all around amounts of other crap to attend to.
We did, however, have a fucking histerical IE party the other night. I’ll post pictures and stories when I get a chance.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
dollarbill44 wrote:
What’s a dickfor?
Ha, please tell me you’re just setting me up.
[/quote]
I wasn’t setting you up. I don’t think you know what is a dickfor.
DB
Right. So, the other night, we had four more instructors pass their instructor’s exam. Like always, we had a party for them. This month wasnt a pool party, but for the four of them, a surprise.
We started at a mini-golf place with two for one drinks at the bar, a cooler full of beer, and three bottles of Samsong. Samsong is a Thai whiskey, which just so happens to be made in hell, by the devil himself, and then imported here.
This is the best picture of all four of them together, along with the course director. Apparently, in all of the drunkeness, despite hundreds of pictures being taken, there isnt one good photo of all four of them together. hahaha.
The rules were, play golf and get drunk. If you had six strokes or higher per given hole, you had to take a shot of Samsong, again, the devil’s finest work.
This is one of the new instructors, gracefully accepting his shot.
I suck at mini golf, as well.
Conor, another one of the new instructors, after his fourth shot of Samsong.
He’s actually absolutely histerical. At the beginning of each IDC, all of the candidates stand up in front of the room and tell the course director a bit about themselves, diving experiences, why you want to become an instructor, etc.
Upon being asked the last question, he replied “Well, to be honest, after diving here the last six months, and dealing with all of PADI’s bullshit, I dont really want to become an instructor anymore.”
More drunken idiocy.
If you’re wondering why a few of the people are wearing gay full brimmed hats, it’s because it was part of the golf thing. They were given hats and plaid, knee high socks they had to wear for the night.