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A lot of dive theory today: physiology, physics (PV = n R T, Gay-Lussac, Boyle, Dalton, Henry), equipment.

Speaking of equipment, my brand new regulator got busted. The seat in the first stage is blown and no spare part in the dive shop. So, we had to rig together a new regulator. Good practice on equipment maintenance, though

Gabriel played the dive student today, and I gave him an underwater tour of his own backyard, starting with the predive briefing and leading and navigating underwater. Of course, he wouldn´t make things easy for me, so he had on purpose a series of non-life threatening incidents: he “forgot” to put his second stage in his mouth when doing his entry, I had to go and rescue him, using my panic diver training. Then he managed to loose his weight belt, loosen his tank, go off course, and bit his second stage. Each time, I had to keep an eye on him to catch him as soon as the problem occured, then assist him in fixing it. I only missed one of the simulated difficulties, which was his fin kicking style.

There´s quite a bit of pressure when you have to keep your eyes on a student as clumsy as Gabriel was today, but thankfully today´s was the worst it gets in a given dive, although all of these problems happen regularly in everyday dives. Yesterday, for example, a diver in another group lost their weight belt just as we were beginning the dive. Most incidents happens in the 10 minutes at the beginning of the dive, so I´ll have to keep my eyes peeled.

Got some nice churros at Plaza del Sol. California law prevents churros stand in California from making them fresh, so they´re always pre-made and stale. This one was the real thing.