{"id":9368,"date":"2016-01-17T23:36:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T07:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=9368"},"modified":"2016-01-18T19:25:51","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T03:25:51","slug":"under-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/01\/17\/under-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After not diving since October 2014 I jumped out of the boat today only to come swimming back to shamefully admit that I&#8217;d forgotten to put on a weight belt.  Adding insult to injury, the guy on the boat reported that the BCD had pockets for weight and that I was wearing 14 pounds.  They still let me dive, but I&#8217;m pretty certain they did so with the assumption that I was brain damaged.<\/p>\n<p>The dive sites were shallow so running out of air wasn&#8217;t a concern, thus both dives ended when the divemaster got cold.  Scuba diving is always a nice way to relax, and the soft corals pulsing in the current just made it moreso.  After diving I also wanted to do some snorkeling at the nearby Coki Beach, but when I got off the boat the beach was a total zoo &#8211; apparently a cruise ship had just landed and dumped the equivalent of a mid-sized American city onto the narrow sand.  I fled, but returned a few hours later to a spot where they sell &#8220;fish biscuits&#8221;, so upon entering the water you are swarmed by schools of begging reef fish.  Sadly I didn&#8217;t realize that the GoPro battery was dead, so while I got a short video of some rays, the hungry reef fish and two cuttlefish sightings will have to go undocumented.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TngiTOF510Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"img-main\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">I&#8217;m still trying to figure out underwater video, so I&#8217;m gonna wait a bit longer before submitting my awesome parrot fish footage to GoPro in hopes of getting a sponsorship.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After not diving since October 2014 I jumped out of the boat today only to come swimming back to shamefully admit that I&#8217;d forgotten to put on a weight belt. Adding insult to injury, the guy on the boat reported that the BCD had pockets for weight and that I was wearing 14 pounds. They &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2016\/01\/17\/under-the-sea\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Under the Sea&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,43],"class_list":["post-9368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-caribbean","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9368"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9375,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9368\/revisions\/9375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}