I'm Jerome, I suffer from PDT.
30degrees at 1am in Kingston. Who'd have thought it? Anyway, it was quite an evening - spent drinking coke and eating chips in front of the box. I blame it all on a case of unusually severe pdt.
Post Dive Trauma is one of the most debilitating conditions known to divers around the globe - short of drowning itself. And, it is usually associated with the start of the dive season or the return after a lengthy lay off. And of course the post dive staple: deep fried food. This condition renders the sufferer slob-like, with barely the ability to change TV channels using the remote control - there's certainly no energy left to press mute during the ad break. What's more, if there was, the victim would be comatose before the show resumed.
Anyway, I managed two dives in a row, and managed to claim a grand total of zero fish. Anyway, the water is far colder already in March than it was at the height of summer. Hopefully I can turn my poor form around this afternoon. Or maybe I've got to stop being so fussy and get some leatherjacket and be willing to make the time investment to clean abalone... but it's tough when you factor in pdt.
Post Dive Trauma is one of the most debilitating conditions known to divers around the globe - short of drowning itself. And, it is usually associated with the start of the dive season or the return after a lengthy lay off. And of course the post dive staple: deep fried food. This condition renders the sufferer slob-like, with barely the ability to change TV channels using the remote control - there's certainly no energy left to press mute during the ad break. What's more, if there was, the victim would be comatose before the show resumed.
Anyway, I managed two dives in a row, and managed to claim a grand total of zero fish. Anyway, the water is far colder already in March than it was at the height of summer. Hopefully I can turn my poor form around this afternoon. Or maybe I've got to stop being so fussy and get some leatherjacket and be willing to make the time investment to clean abalone... but it's tough when you factor in pdt.
posted by BSJ-rom at 10:13 am
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Oh wow. Is there any level of seriousness there, do you really feel like that after diving? And where did you dive? I wish I could go diving, but alas, I'm afraid of deep water.
Just out of interest, have you seen the movie Gattaca?
Jerome Jerome the metronome, you can play the piano by that heart beat of his... yes, I've seen Gattaca.
Yeah, there's a certain level of seriousness. If you have to do stuff, then sometimes you can avoid symptoms. But Nathaniel is known not to dive on Fridays because his evening gig suffers.
We went at Fossil Cove just south of Blackmans Bay. Lots of Fossils there.
As far as deep water is concerned, we only normally dive to 3-5m. It's all pretty shallow.
Saw a big ray today. It was about 2m by 2m. It was stalking us. All a bit freaky.
Oh wow, seeing a ray, that would be cool. Mmm yeah I think even that depth would be terrifying enough.
Gattaca was awesome.. it's so quoteable. I like Eugene, Jude Law's character. "What's your number! What's your number!!" Hehe.
Rays are freaky. They're so big and they follow you. The other fish don't seem to be scared by it though.
Then sometimes you're racing away from one, you think you've gotten away and all of a sudden you're face to face with this giant of the shallows.
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