It's odd being the only ones who don't speak the same language as everyone else. We're the dopey ones smiling on the boat because we only speak English while everyone else speaks about 12 languages and can interact with the locals, the Koreans, the Japanese, and the Chinese. The Japanese man who is diving with our dive operation has been interesting because I don't think he's come up from a dive yet before he's gone into a decompression dive, which isn't that good for you. Ryan and I get upset if we're not paying attention and our computers tell us we're a minute into a decompression dive. Yesterday, he was giggling about the fact that he was coming up 7 minutes after he went into a decompression dive and then saw something he wanted to take a picture of so he went back down and eventually came up with 20 minutes on his safety stop instead of 3 because he did a decompression dive. That's the way you end up getting the bends! Apparently it's a big joke around the scuba shop because he ALWAYS dives like that and he is somewhat of a regular with the dive shop. The other regular, who is an American, apparently likes thrills so he likes to dive really deep. He was talking about diving 300 feet yesterday, which is crazy because on a single tank you are supposed to stop at 130 feet! If you do go to 300 feet, most people use special tanks and unique mixes of gas, like argon.
We didn't post last night because we almost fell asleep having dinner at 6:00. We still aren't completely adjusted to the time difference. We've been going to bed fairly early, 8-9pm, and have been getting up at about 4-5am. We might have to do two dives today and then take a nap so that we don't fall asleep while eating!!!
Here are some of the interesting pictures from yesterday.
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