So today, Oak and I had our first check-out dive in Lake George, in the lovely mountains of Upstate NY. After spending quite a fair amount of time putting on full gear, we went tank-first into a 40-degree body of water. (equipment not shown in this picture: a very stylish hood, gloves, and dive booties – yes we looked like seals! orp orp!)
The neoprene wetsuits were definitely invaluable in making this a tolerable experience, though the whole point of wetsuits is that you get WET, then your body warms up a layer of water around your skin. So yes, it was cold. Imagine some ice cubes being basically dropped in every part of your body. Yes. I couldn’t get my fins off afterward since my fingers were numb.
Our instructor said that this diving is the toughest we will ever do, because of the tons of equipment that’s required for surviving the conditions. We pretty much concluded it’s completely nuts to dive in a lake up here; the bottom temperatures really don’t change that much, even in the 90 degree weather of summer, at depth it’s still a lovely 40 degrees.
After tomorrow, I’ll be dedicated to the tropical locations, where you can wear
practically nothing at depth and still be perfectly warm! Ding.
Tonight we had a barbecque for senior week. Fun! Tomorrow is the booze cruise, so yes, lots of time on the water for me. 
yay! Time for bed.
May 11th, 2003 at 12:04 pm
My way to find out whats going on!! score!!