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Decisions / Frequencies / Misc.
Life really is just a continuous series of decisions. Some are trivial. What flavor of ice cream do I want? Should I get a waffle cone? One or two scoops? As a diver, the importance of making good decisions is amplified. Diving truly is a safe sport. Most accidents and especially fatalities are the result of multiple poor decisions. Dive conditions and circumstances can also ramp up the need to make right choices. Deep diving, strong currents, and bad visibility make proper critical thinking all the more important. Experience and repetition are factors that lead to making good decisions. As a diver, it’s important to stay active to keep our skills sharp and our confidence up. Take a continuing education course to challenge yourself. At a minimum if you feel like it’s been too long since you’ve blown bubbles, rent some gear and jump in a pool and practice skills. Some decisions carry much more weight than. After our Cuba trip, where should we travel to next? Do I want to spend the rest of my life with this person? Oh yeah, we have some decisions to make a couple of Tuesdays from now. According to the media and rhetoric, half of us feel like the country will be ruined If the wrong person gets elected. The other half feels like the country will be ruined if the wrong person gets elected. My PC editor is starting to sweat right now. Let me finish by saying this: elections are a lot more fun if you swap out the L for an R!!
These are the hurricanes that have caused significant damage to the Naples and Marco area in the last hundred years:
1964 Donna
1993 Andrew (29)
2006 Wilma (13)
2017 Irma (11)
2022 Ian (5)
In (parentheses) is the number of years between each storm. We just dodged bullets with Helene and Milton too! Despite Milton’s storm surge raising the water level to the second highest I’ve ever seen it (after Ian), in my opinion we escaped without significant damage. Hmmmm, am I seeing a trend in the frequency of storms here? Nah, that must be random coincidence. Similar to all those silly scientists trying to tell us that humans are causing climate change. Geez, some people will say anything for clicks! Nothing to see here, it’s just the earths natural warming cycle. Sarcasm aside… My heart goes out to all of those that suffered losses in Helene and Milton. Things can be replaced (not easy to replace an entire house that got washed away though). The loss of life is tragic. God help us all.
If it weren’t for just having an awesome week of diving in Cuba, I’d probably be depressed. The people are so impoverished there, but most of them have a beautiful spirit. Basic necessities are difficult if not impossible to come by. It reinforced my appreciation for all that we have in America. As a society, we could do so much better though. I started thinking about how much money is spent on political advertisements during an election year. That has to be a huge number! Perhaps a ‘make a small dent in world hunger’ number. Anyway, I’m sick of all the ads! Back to Cuba… the reefs in Cuba’s Gardens of the Queen aren’t 100% healthy but they’re hanging on better than any other spot I’ve dived in the Caribbean over the last 20 years. Our trip timing was fantastic as the weather was perfect and we missed the massive countrywide power grid collapse by three weeks. Fidel Castro may be the biggest A-hole scuba diver to have ever lived! I wish I had some recent local dive reports for you but ultimately I’m thankful the Psychquatic is safe and ready to run if and when the conditions straighten out. At least there is an upside to the water turning cooler this time of the year, it decreases the chances of tropical systems becoming major and massive. Time to sign off, I’m all over the place. Hope you can swing by Friday evening!
Live Love Dive (soon hopefully) —Jeff
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