{"id":573896518,"date":"2024-01-11T21:53:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T02:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573896518"},"modified":"2024-01-17T19:17:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T00:17:26","slug":"finally-back-in-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2024\/01\/11\/finally-back-in-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally back in the water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We went diving today. And so today was a good day. Also, my ears began cooperating today, meaning I could dive better. But let me back up. <\/p>\n<p>When we first came to Cozumel in March 2022 I got a great allergic reaction to something on the island. Couldn&#8217;t breathe. Got on the boat and away from the island and it all went away. Late in that week I picked up some OTC medicine, and that helped the breathing, but not so much the diving. Descending was a big problem. Coming back up to the surface was no great treat, either. So, this year, I brought some medicine with me. What do you know, the allergy problem came right back. I started taking the medicine, and blamed this guy.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan24\/jan21.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Descents were slow on my first dives Monday and Tuesday. Coming back up was also a little unpleasant. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerscuba.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>But, today, my ears and I had a little talk. On the ascent of the first dive of the day my ears were making all sorts of noise. I don&#8217;t know how everyone else on the dive boat didn&#8217;t hear them. And then, they opened up as they are supposed to. On my later dives, I descended like a normal diver. I even beat my lovely bride, who is a fish, to the bottom on one of the dives. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan24\/jan22.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(This is not the point, in any way, but it&#8217;s a useful measuring stick.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the first video I shot of the dive trip. This is a simple one. There will be many, <em>many<\/em> more. <\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%;height:100%;position:absolute;left:0px;top:0px;overflow:hidden\" frameborder=\"0\" type=\"text\/html\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/embed\/video\/x8rk06a\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" allowfullscreen title=\"Dailymotion Video Player\" > <\/iframe> <\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a photo of a conch shell, if you couldn&#8217;t get enough in that video.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan24\/jan23.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This little collection of coral and sponge looks like a video screengrab, for some reason. It&#8217;s a shame, too, because it was really quite beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan24\/jan24.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The filefish is just a catchall name, made of more than 100 species, which are classified in 27 genera. They&#8217;re found all over the world. Some people call them foolfish, leatherjackets or shingles. I&#8217;ve never seen one that looks quite like this.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan24\/jan25.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Oh look! A sponge!<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan24\/jan26.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Nothing in this one, but you never know about the next one. <\/p>\n<p>More diving tomorrow, more photos and video. You&#8217;re going to see a beautiful eagle ray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went diving today. And so today was a good day. Also, my ears began cooperating today, meaning I could dive better. But let me back up. When we first came to Cozumel in March 2022 I got a great allergic reaction to something on the island. Couldn&#8217;t breathe. Got on the boat and away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,89,10,64,15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573896518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-cozumel","category-photo","category-scuba","category-thursday","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573896518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573896519,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573896518\/revisions\/573896519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573896518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573896518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573896518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}