September 9, 2012
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Night Diving
We went on a night dive last night. It was in the Comal River up near New Braunfels, Texas. The river is shallow so no depth issues but it turned out to be much more challenging than I expected. It is very difficult to maintain proper buoyancy in less than ten feet of water and so I had to be real conscious of my breathing. You can use your lung capacity to rise or sink. The dive took about 35 minutes and we saw a LOT of moss, huge crawdads, bass and perch but we missed the giant (12 - 18 inch) picasimus. I guess a few years ago someone dumped their aquarium fish in the river and since it is always around 72 degrees they lived and love all the algae available to them. The most disturbing part of the dive was when I first went in and immediately hit the bottom getting swallowed by the moss. It was about two feet deep and I just settled right in like it was a soft mattress. Not my favorite experience. Believe me I will be taking some weight out if I go diving in that shallow of water again.
Tomorrow we are going to go dive in a lake, not the one on the border. Our drug lord experience will have to wait until another trip as our boat guy didn't come through for us. But that's okay.
The rest of our trip has been good and relaxing. We may only be three hours from home but it's not the office for my husband.
And a big happy birthday today to my favorite Russian in the world! My son-in-law, Vladimir!
