Urgency in the wetsuit

For today pool lesson, we learn how to establish neutral buoyancy while underwater a.k.a the Aladdin carpet stunt. When one is neutrally buoyant underwater, he/she neither floats up or sink. I shall leave the details of how to do that to the internet search engines or the PADI Open Water Diver Manual. Just like to share that its a very essential and important skill for a scuba diver. Controlling your buoyancy give you better water depth control and also prevent the diver from sinking and hurting the corals reefs. It take 10 years to grow back what took 1 min to destroy so as much as we wanted to appreciate the wonder of the underwater world, we don't want to be too careless too. Buoyancy control...very important!

Wetsuit. It keeps you warm underwater and also give limited protection from scrap and cuts during the dive. Thats what the book says but unfortunately some of us got to learn some hard facts about divers wetsuit. Once you got it on (your body) and get your fins and scuba dive gear equipped, once you are underwater....nature called. Thats a problem. Do you abort the dive to get back on the boat to relief the nature call or do you hold your bladder? Man and their ego, They kept quiet about it and pressed on with the dive. The only lady in our team voiced out her nature call only to have the instructor to ask her to hold on for another 10 mins. Is it true that women can hold nature call better than man? From the instructors, its a resounding yes.

At the end of the training session, almost everyone was eager to get out of the suit, almost everyone heads for the washroom. I learn my lesson today, not too drink too much water before the dive... hahahaha. No wonder a friend of mine, a season diver mention "If you need to, relieve yourself underwater quietly". However we were warn not to do so because the liquid might just stay within the wetsuit untill you took it off.

Oh boy...sea turtles... can't wait to see them.