Another heat wave hit San Diego today (really not that bad using an East Coast standard). I was exhausted from spending the whole afternoon sailing at Mission Bay. But in the quick trip to the dive shop, everyone I met was telling me how stellar the dive conditions were at the shores. Well, I just…

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To avoid the crowd, I got to the shores late after work. From the afar, the sea was still calm. The wind just died down and the waves were small. I took the same route, heading to the area northern to the crap patch and swimming toward the south. The condition deteriorated a bit: it…

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The joint pain on my foot has been bothering me for a week now and today I felt a slightly better. An irresistible urge to dive came up. I took a few ibuprofen and headed to the shores. It was a Tuesday night. The V street was packed with divers. I waited quite a while…

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I am writing this post nearly a week after the dive. I haven’t been going into the water for that long because an acute arthritis attach on my right foot. Similar problems have occurred but they were much milder and a few ibuprofen would work just fine. But this time, it was much more serious.…

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I joined Tim this weekend and for the first time, excluding the class training, I sailed out to the open ocean. Just like scuba diving, which gives allows me to get underwater, sailing gives me pair of wings to fly over. The opportunities from sailing to explore the power and the enormity of the ocean,…

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