Dive Class Pictures!

Tonight was Underwater Photography Night in scuba class, so here are a few shots of us playing around. My camera got passed around quite a bit, and I ended up having about 60 random pictures on my camera at the end of the night, plus six videos. The pictures below are all ones I took - click each to see a larger version. Enjoy!



A shark's eye view...



The pool where we practice has a glass window cut into one of the walls at the deepest part of the trough, giving people in the dive locker a view into the bottom of the pool, a relic of the days when a UCLA professor (and the first divemaster) studied the effects of diving and swimming on the human body. Anyway, this picture is only of that window - Adam (one of the dive TAs) is in the dive locker, and the lane lines are a reflection of what's behind me. Even still, it reminds me of those creepy bubble windows at the Monterey Bay Aquarium... I still don't like those things...



This FOB picture is dedicated to my roommate Peony, who says I do FOB better than actual FOBs. (FOB - Fresh Off the Boat, a moderately derogatory name for a very Asian Asian)



More shark-eye view. Since I didn't use a flash, I used a slower camera speed to catch all the pool light, and believe me, it is hard to sit still while in the middle of the water column. So I'll just say I was going for artsy on this one...



As you can see, the window is not entirely for research purposes. The funniest thing about this picture is that Ashley (my dive buddy) didn't know about Adam's sign until much later when we were getting out the pool.