Thursday, September 25, 2008

Жизнь - игра ...

Жизнь - игра, но, блядь, последняя, потому играть надо по-настоящему.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

О событиях этой недели


Всю сегодняшную неделю меня забавляла та лихорадка которая творилась у нас (в США) на бирже.
Правительство наше перепробовало кучу мер чтобы каким-то образом починить ситуацию, но все они собственно сводились, по большому счёту, к тому чтобы "напечатать" больше денег и взять ещё в кредит у налогоплательшиков. Особенно странным мне показалась та эйфория и всеобщий подъём на бирже, после того когда "государство" решило поставить выдачу денег на поток и создало государственную организацию которая будет принимать плохие кредиты от банков.

Я как то сразу задумался над тем какой интересный бизнесс получается: огромное количество жилищных кредитов теперь будут обеспечиватся государством , т.е. из кармана налогоплательшиков. Попросту говоря, получается что я теперь сам у себя беру в долг при этом плачу за это процент дяде. Хорошо устроились ребята, блин.

Есть чувство что где-то меня наёбывают, и как в том анекдоте : "а где понять не могу".

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Не моё, но понравилось :)

Русский человек читает инструкцию только тогда, когда точно понял, что поломал.

Ищу работу в должности сапера
Личные характеристики в резюме-Склонен к суициду

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

PPB and Wreck Diver specialties


It was a long and productive weekend. It was long because I started it on Friday (took a day off from work) and it lasted till Tuesday, since Monday was Labor Day.

We went with Sterling Silver Scuba guys to Dutch Springs, PA and did a lot of quality diving there. Well, I'm not talking about Caribean-style scuba diving here, probably can not compare with that.

I did my Peak Performance Buoyancy (PPB) and Wreck Diver specialities certification dives, total of 4 dives and then another 5 fun dives, total of 9(!) dives in 3 days.
Thanks to Jason, Kevin, Carl, Jeremy, JF and all the other divers who came diving with us.

After this weekend I got 24 dives total since I started and I think I'm starting to understand a lot of things about scuba diving better now.

So here is a list of all dives for the weekend:

Day 1
1. PPB dive with Jason Davis as instructor.

Day 2
2. Fun dive with Bill, Conney and Julia to the sunken boat and airplane.
3. Fun dive, practice dive with our instructors and group of new open water divers who were going thourgh the execises and certification process. Just worked on my own on buoyancy control and played with weights
4. Wreck dive with Kevin Davenport. We went to the sunken school bus (at ~45ft deep) and run reels and practised out of air situations, swimming side by side while sharing air.
5. Wreck dive with Kevin Davenport to the sunken boat (~60ft). I had to run the reel, do the measurements and produce a survey of the boat. Measure depths , orientation, dimentions etc.
6. Fun dive, my first night dive. I never did a night dive before and I joined Kevin and his son on the dive to helicopter. I can not describe how profoundly I was impressed with the dive. Overall it was very surreal experience.

Day 3
7. Fun dive aka deep dive. I joined Kevin. He was doing the deep dive with his son. The deepest they could go was 70ft deep ( as far as I understood , due to age limits ) and we went to the sunken trolley. I went back with Austin and Kevin continued with JF to do the full decompression dive.
8. Fun dive with Jason, Carl, Jeremy and the group of newly certified open water divers. We went to the sunken helicopter. Overall I was pretty happy to see improvements since I got first time certified myself 3.5 months ago and help my buddy with advice from my not so distant experience.
9. The Wreck Dive with Kevin, the last certification dive for the wreck diver. This one was kind of short , because according to my computer I was too close the decompression dive (too much diving in a such short period of time) and after 20 minutes we had to go to the surface.

Now I can tell that 9 dives (even not that deep ones) in 3 days are kind of too much, especially the day where I had 5 dives. I never did more that 2 certification dives in a day and never hit the no decompression dive limits, but the 2 days in a row I had 14 hours of desaturation time on my dive computer by the end of the day and I was really tired after all. Just could not stop diving :)


Let me know if you find some of it interesting and want to know more details on any particular certification dives.

Happy Diving ! :)