Since our most previous post, we've had three dive jobs in one weekend, and we have three more lined up! A friend of our here at the Boat Basin mentioned that he knew a girl who did diving in the area for a while and had a nice line of customers, but she has since then stopped diving, so he passed our information to her, and I think we've already received our first job from them. I couldn't stress enough still how much people have been helping us out, this really is an amazing place.
Before we heard of this news, I had to start applying for jobs in town because there's no way we can continue to dive in the winter, so we need to have something to sustain us through the cold months. We do plan on staying on board all winter, but the owner here Clay has a cottage that we maybe able to rent out if it gets too cold.
We're planning a trip home for the 27th through the 30th of this month. As much as we love it here, we do occasionally miss home. More so family and friends than the area itself, but if it weren't being destroyed by coal mines and fracking operations, I would miss it to, just like I miss the times before there were numerous fracking and coal mines. Oh well, the government will continue to profit off the destruction of the Earth, and Brian and I are forced to become successful to get our loved ones out of that cesspool of industry.
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Update!
We don't post in our blog as much as I'd like. I'll try to keep up on it in the future. Since our last update quite a bit has happened. We're still pushing our dive services and finally got a real website up (chesapeakediveservice.com) Brian landed a job at Chesapeake Boat Basin where they'll let him take a few hours or the day off if we have a dive job lined up. What other job will give you a day off to make more money? These people are amazing and I could never put into words how much we appreciate what they're doing for us. We do as much as we can to help around the marina, but we could still never pay them back for all they've done for us. We would still like to have more dive jobs, though. The whole reason we came down here was to not work 9-5 jobs, but Brian seems to be enjoying his job here, and until business picks up, we really don't have much of a choice.
Since our last post we've had a number of dive jobs, though and it is slowly picking up. We've had a few repeat customers, and that's always a good sign if people are coming back to us. We were also here to greet our good friends Tom and Doris Sanders back from their trip back home to Texas. Unfortunately when we greeted them, a cart that was too close to the edge of the dock fell into the water with a few of Tom and Doris' belongings. So the next day we did a free dive (a dive with no air, just holding your breath) for the cart that fell in. It was our first search and recover mission, and luckily it was a large object and easy to spot. We tied a line to it and was able to successfully haul it up out of the water. Then, a few days later, I (Sierra) accidentally dropped the keys in the water right beside our boat. We had a floaty thing on the keychain, but it didn't help much. Luckily for us, we're divers and had all the supplies necessary to retrieve them. I did another free dive, only this time the object I was trying to spot was a lot smaller than the cart before. It didn't take too long to find them though and surprisingly the water was pretty clear and I could see the keys pretty easily.
On a random note, one night we ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut. I didn't think it was a complicated order, stuffed crust with green olives, pepperoni, bacon and onions, I think. When we went to pick it up, it took longer than it should have due to the fact they messed our order up twice. We ended up getting three stuffed crust pizzas for the price of one. It was pretty nice.
Back to boat business though, we went on a sail this weekend, but before we went out we decided to clean our own boat which we have been hesitant to do because we can't pay ourselves to dive on our own boat. When we got down there though, it was a whole aquarium of sea life on our keel and rudder. Sponges, anemones, BIG barnacles, bunch of crabs. It was a mess. We got it nice and clean though and went out on a sail the next day. We had a good day for sailing. Wind was about 5-10 mph, seas were a little choppy, but it was a good day. We sailed just under our jib for a while and tried to put up our main sail along with it. I must say we were not prepared for what was going to happen next. We were heeling over more than we have in our boat before. Things were falling over in our boat and it made quite the little mess. We're lucky it didn't heel to the other side because our refrigerator would have been on the floor. It was a fun experience, but if we decide to ever do that much extreme sailing again, we're gonna have to empty our boat of all things heavy and important. It was fun though! Great learning experience.
And that's about it for a summary of the past few weeks. Again, I will try to keep up on this more often, because no one wants to read a whole book about our lives. People like things short, and I intend to keep them short in future postings.
Since our last post we've had a number of dive jobs, though and it is slowly picking up. We've had a few repeat customers, and that's always a good sign if people are coming back to us. We were also here to greet our good friends Tom and Doris Sanders back from their trip back home to Texas. Unfortunately when we greeted them, a cart that was too close to the edge of the dock fell into the water with a few of Tom and Doris' belongings. So the next day we did a free dive (a dive with no air, just holding your breath) for the cart that fell in. It was our first search and recover mission, and luckily it was a large object and easy to spot. We tied a line to it and was able to successfully haul it up out of the water. Then, a few days later, I (Sierra) accidentally dropped the keys in the water right beside our boat. We had a floaty thing on the keychain, but it didn't help much. Luckily for us, we're divers and had all the supplies necessary to retrieve them. I did another free dive, only this time the object I was trying to spot was a lot smaller than the cart before. It didn't take too long to find them though and surprisingly the water was pretty clear and I could see the keys pretty easily.
On a random note, one night we ordered a pizza from Pizza Hut. I didn't think it was a complicated order, stuffed crust with green olives, pepperoni, bacon and onions, I think. When we went to pick it up, it took longer than it should have due to the fact they messed our order up twice. We ended up getting three stuffed crust pizzas for the price of one. It was pretty nice.
Back to boat business though, we went on a sail this weekend, but before we went out we decided to clean our own boat which we have been hesitant to do because we can't pay ourselves to dive on our own boat. When we got down there though, it was a whole aquarium of sea life on our keel and rudder. Sponges, anemones, BIG barnacles, bunch of crabs. It was a mess. We got it nice and clean though and went out on a sail the next day. We had a good day for sailing. Wind was about 5-10 mph, seas were a little choppy, but it was a good day. We sailed just under our jib for a while and tried to put up our main sail along with it. I must say we were not prepared for what was going to happen next. We were heeling over more than we have in our boat before. Things were falling over in our boat and it made quite the little mess. We're lucky it didn't heel to the other side because our refrigerator would have been on the floor. It was a fun experience, but if we decide to ever do that much extreme sailing again, we're gonna have to empty our boat of all things heavy and important. It was fun though! Great learning experience.
And that's about it for a summary of the past few weeks. Again, I will try to keep up on this more often, because no one wants to read a whole book about our lives. People like things short, and I intend to keep them short in future postings.
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