I promised somewhere to tell more about Goofy's dive computer...so here it is (at last! at last!).
OK...so...how come it takes A LOT of spit and effort to turn on these "SmartCOM's", but apparently, the airplane can do it by "magic"?
On our first day of diving, Goofy's dive computer happily (or perhaps alarmingly? ;) let everyone within hearing range know where she was every 3 seconds. Although it's good to know where Goofy is, it's not good to know where she is every 3 seconds for more than an hour (of diving). I also suspect that sparky chased away a fish or three :) Sound travels pretty far underwater....
It was convinced (CONVINCED) that she was dead or dying and needed to get her behind back to the surface. PRONTO!
See...according to the computer, Goofy had CNS O2 percentage of 199%. She was probably dead. Quite.
(I for one, am not quite sure how you can have more than 100% Oxygen toxicity in your blood/tissue, but what do I know? I'm not a computer).
And said computer wanted us all to know - every 3 seconds - that we should go retrieve her body, or answer her cell phone, it sounds kinda like that, so who knows?
Once back to dry land, we had time to figure out what sparky was doing, and it seems that the most logical answer was that it somehow got turned on in flight. Thinking that Goofy had done a long dive at 30000+ feet, made sparky sad and very concerned. I must tell someone, I must, i MUST. So...beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep...
beep, beep, beep
beep, beep, beep
beep, beep, beep
beep, beep, beep
beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep
We all had a look at sparky. Wondering if we could tell it that it was a mistake...she hadn't been diving at 30000 feet. Goofy was really OK. No nitrogen to speak of, no deco necessary.
But NO. Sparky knows best, and so now sits (thankfully) on a shelf in the condo, while Goofy dives with Rob's computer (thanks Rob), and a brand new SPG we had to get.
beep, beep, beep, beep
beep, beep, beep, beep
beep, beep, beep, beep
I sincerely believe that sparky will soon be living elsewhere soon...perhaps at the bottom of the ocean near Lana'i?
And so it goes...
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