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ng wetsuit smiling you looked like you could use a refreshing cup of water thanks that was really lovely but seriously you have to stay hydrated and you really should be wearing a hat he said plunking a baseball cap down on her head even if it s cloudy the sun is coming through and having a sunburn on your scalp is pretty much the worst how long before your first dive uh i think when everyone is ready we ll be going to see the plane we d better get you ready then right then you can go help your buddy get ready that s what buddies do mark looked around at molly s scattered gear her fins were leaning against one of the picnic benches her buoyancy control device a large black vest and her bottle and regulator were lying in the sand the whole bundle of her regulator with console depth gauge and octopus was gathered together and held by the bcd s straps her mask was dangling on her arm and she was wearing the rest of the suit it was like wearing someone else s shoes her mask and fins at least were her own they were the first thing that she had purchased on her student budget the fins had been on sale for half price and the mask though inexpensive had been the one that fit her the best in the pool things were easier without a wetsuit molly only needed about four pounds of lead on her belt to stay underwater and she could carry that around on her hips indefinitely here twenty pounds was already making for a sore back uh what do you suggest let s carry it all over to the water s edge when you re diving with newbies no offense you want to be ready when they are if you get ready too early and aren t able to get in the water you ll overheat and you ll kill yourself with all the weight molly nodded not wanting to appear like a newbie knowing that she couldn t help it she had heard a few divers complaining about the mudpuppies that had kicked up the bottom of the quarry how the visibility was poor now etcetera she knew that she was one of those mudpuppies even if she hadn t hit the water yet she felt her cheeks grow hot mark picked up her tank vest and regulator and laid it in the water right near the edge he turned on the tank checked her regulator and her backup the gauge and the surpressure valves then he inflated the vest just a little okay now you re going to put that on as soon as you see your instructor putting his stuff on go find your buddy and see if he needs help this isn t the same stuff that you were using in the pool so it s going to be a little harder to get used to molly nodded thanks for your help mark she found jean philippe her buddy underneath the wooden structure that dominated the right side of the beach jean phillipe was much older than her he was somewhere in his forties and his wife was helping him get on his equipment he looked close to being ready but molly wanted to follow mark s advice it was her job to help jean phillipe and his job to help her maybe she should say something about him keeping all his equipment on now she didn t want him to overheat she knew that older people were more at risk for nearly every ailment in diving they had learned about it in class their tissues were weaker as tu besoins d un coup de main her question sounded dumb thought molly when it was clear that his wife had already helped him with everything no but do you you have barely anything on ah i don t want to overheat said molly but she did feel like she ought to be doing something getting ready somehow well we can go in the water once we have everything on okay when you re ready we can go take care of my things later molly relaxed in the cold water her fins bobbing up and down as she lay on her back with the sun in her face she finally felt right the water took all the weight of the equipment she and jean phillipe had finished getting their equipment on just minutes ago and the water felt blessedly cold a cloud passed in front of the sun and her arms felt suddenly full of gooseflesh by the time that the sun was out again molly was almost dozing are you guys ready to go molly stood up in the water her repose interrupted by the voice of her instructor his divers alert network id tag dangled in the water off of his bcd there were eight of them in the group about to go out into the open water for the first time molly nodded and took her mask off her arm to put it on and realized that she forgot to treat the lenses to make sure that they wouldn t fog up the mask was already wet but she shook out the water and wiped it as best she could then she spit in the mask rubbing the lenses with her index finger the only one of her fingers other than her thumb that had its full range of movement her mittens made her look like some kind of three clawed lobster molly thought molly dunked the mask and put it on unmindful of the hairs that were still trapped beneath it her instructor saw her put it on and waded over he firmly tugged her hood away from her face and shoved the hair of her bangs back under it as gently as possible still pulling the hair molly grimaced he then resettled the mask on her face and placed the edges of her hood back over the rubber of her mask there you go you had hair under the edge of your mask that would have been flooding constantly thanks said molly do you feel ready yeah i m ready said molly her stomach churning did you do a buddy check they had she and jean philippe had checked each other s equipment just as mark had checked molly s before they knew how each other s emergency features worked and knew how much air they were both starting with 2800 psi for molly and 2900 psi for jp yeah molly wouldn t sink she emptied all the air out of her vest and tried to go down but it just wasn t happening she knew that she had on enough weight probably too much actually her instructor took off one of his ankle weights and offered it to her but then looked at her for a moment molly are you breathing uh yeah said molly but she could feel a certain tightness in her chest she was too nervous to empty her lungs entirely okay molly i want you to take a deep breath and then exhale as much as you possibly can understand molly knew that in a panic situation the lung could become a sealed container one that would expand and expand like a balloon if that container were brought up form under pressure until like a balloon it reached the limits of its elasticity they had learned about it in class she tried to do what her instructor asked and started to sink okay molly good now when you want to go up or down sometimes adjusting the amount of air in your lungs is enough to control your buoyancy just keep breathing okay and don t forget to put your regulator in your mouth instead of your tuba molly acknowledged him with an okay signal holding out her thumb and index together in a circle the rest of her fingers extended they descended through the water and molly fancied that she could feel the pressure increasing on every inch of her body fourteen point seven pounds per square inch but it wasn t possible they were only going down to twenty five feet for now the instructor asked each student to deliberately fill their mask with water and then clear it it was an exercise in technique but also in will molly always had second thoughts about deliberately flooding her mask and now out in the open water it took more willpower than ever she broke the seal and accidentally took a little water up her nose she coughed but then steeled herself just slightly breaking the seal between the mask and her forehead and gently breathing out through her nose to force the water out it worked perfectly after that they got their first glimpse of the plane it sat in only twenty five feet of water one of its wings just slightly hanging over the edge of an underwater cliff the finish on the wings was mottled now but still smooth molly realized how much she had been affected by tunnel vision since getting under the water now that they were at the bottom with something solid beneath them the world seemed to open up she looked up watching her bubbles race up to the surface getting bigger and bigger with every foot that they ascended they swam around the plane a few times and their instructor encouraged them to touch the plane to look inside although it had been gutted all the doors and windowpanes removed the controls at the front of the plane were still there and molly and the others moved the levers around a bit reaching through the front window molly wondered what lever had done what when this plane used to fly after a while the instructor checked his watch and signaled for them to begin a safety ascent which meant putting out their right arm with a closed fist above their head and keeping their left hand on their inflator hoses then ascending while rotating in a slow circle to note any approaching danger at the surface they inflated their vests they had just logged their first dive their instructor took another group of students down to the plane while molly and her group recovered and checked to see if they needed to change their tanks the other group s dive seemed to take no time at all soon molly and the others were on their way to their limit sixty feet the maximum depth for open water scuba divers if any of them ever decided to take advanced and deep diving they might be able to go as deep as 130 feet as they descended molly began to feel cold her lips and cheeks the only exposed bits of her skin seemed to take over her entire being and her feet they felt like they were no longer a part of her body as they headed over the edge of the underwater cliff to the next level below molly felt like she was stumbling down a steep hill her fins kicking up silt and knocking rocks down the side she knew that she could inflate her vest more to float down away from the edge of the hill but she didn t want to inflate it too much and suddenly shoot to the surface she d rather get a little tired and have to use her muscles than risk that she d just swim under her own power instead of relying on her bcd apparently she wasn t the only one with tunnel vision molly took a fin to the face from one of her fellow divers that knocked her mask askew molly panicked for a second and grabbed for the mask but reminded herself that she had basically an infinite supply of air coming in from the regulator in her mouth took a deep breath and fixed the mask she cleared it and flashed the all okay at her buddy jean philippe her mask had begun to slowly flood again and she realized that there must be some hair that had snuck back underneath the seal but with her huge lobster claw gloves there was nothing that she could do about it she told herself that she knew how to clear her mask and at least it might stop fogging up with all that water rolling around inside of it she d be practicing mask clearing a lot on this dive when the instructor asked if she was okay she continued to flash him that circle made of thumb and forefinger she willed herself to be okay never hold your breath while ascending that was what the training manual said and molly had read the training manual twice through according to her console molly was sixty feet below the surface of the water and she was the coldest she had ever been the world above her head was grey and silted as she looked up and cleared her mask for the umpteenth time at this depth jean phillipe s face was as white and pale as a fish s belly her mask was filling up again and molly found that she couldn t breathe at sixty feet or with two atmosphere s worth of pressure to contend with she felt like she could feel those 29 4 pounds per square inch on her skin on her chest cavity she cleared her mask and drew panicked breath remembered section 4 4 1 air embolisms 4 4 2 mediastinal and subcutaneous emphysema 4 4 3 pneumothorax the pressure seemed to be squeezing her the decrease in pressure of only four feet squeezing her caving in her chest until she would spit out the regulator panic closing the glottis causing the lungs to become a sealed container and she would drift up and decreased pressure causing the lungs to collapse and up and stop breathe clear the mask she told her buddy that she was fine flashing the all okay with a smile that she didn t feel her face felt numb she realized that she was not fine molly was sixty feet below the surface and she knew how this had to end 4 4 1 never hold your breath while ascending 4 4 2 never hold your breath while ascending 4 4 3 never hold your breath while ascending 2013 03 29 posted by jeka category uncategorized leave a comment ice a short story for my thesis that i m having workshopped in class this week take a gander ice new ice the most solid ice it s formed after a long freeze with moderate winds it s the clearest even when very thick half melted ice or frozen snow makes white ice it is milky and it can be soft broken ice the thickness is very variable but when it refreezes it can be plenty solid black ice the ice is dangerously thin at eight centimeters one person can stand on a piece of ice but walking around is not recommended at thirteen centimeters the ice can support multiple people and it is safe so long as one minimizes the weight in the work area at fifteen to twenty centimeters true safety is achieved at thirty centimeters the ice can hold vehicles the ice is a clouded mirror a barrier in time their tools are the same on molly s side of the barrier she imagines that they are actually the same instruments their ice tongs were picked up from antique fairs had seen hard use before they came to them were streaked with orange rust somebody had used them once why not the members of that ice sled the one that had nearly wiped her out of existence the ice saw is brown with age and taller than she is the divers bring it out of storage once a year just for this one weekend so long as they escape the thaw that most other people hope for otherwise it hangs in the diving school office at the sports center a storied relic the men of the ice sled would have used the ice tongs when they were still dark and sleek every day they would have used them not for a weekend of fun and polar bear escapades but for their livelihood for the business of filling iceboxes saving food for summers before freon before frigidaire their horse drawn sled would have been full of evenly cut blocks layered in between with straw and stored in dark warehouses on the waterfront they are about twelve for the first day of ice diving molly and the other ice divers pile their blocks some fifteen feet away from the hole and when they have finished they will push them back in allowing the ice to refreeze for whoever shows up next if the thaw doesn t come first some other diving team has left one block standing upright in front of their hole no doubt to mark it so that nobody will stumble across it before it had fully frozen it makes molly think of the ice truck those men that tragedy seventy some years ago her grandfather had worked the ice truck...