I’ve always wanted to be a scuba diver. I like swimming in general, mostly because it feels like discount flying and the colours underwater are pretty. All glimmery and nice; it’s the best. That’s pretty much the reason I’m doing marine biology at university, although ocean animals are okay too. I like turtles. Who doesn’t like turtles? I think there might be an entire module on turtles, because they’re so important to the ecosystem.
But right now? It’s all pretty…dry. Heh heh. But no really, I’m really bored most of the time. There was a week where we had to pick our own project and that was fine, because I think oxygen chambers are totally sick. Like, Melbourne’s hyperbaric treatments are pretty popular at the moment for all kinds of things, but what most people fail to realise is that they were originally developed for decompression sickness. That’s when you get sick from being decompressed. That sounds like being depressed, but actually…it’s not. In fact, you can have decompression sickness even when you’re very happy and functioning normally. No, it’s when you come up from scuba diving too quickly, so obviously that’s why I had an interest in it. You’re supposed to spend time in an oxygen chamber afterwards, which allows the natural brain bubbles to stop bubbling in your brain, because there aren’t supposed to be air bubbles in your brain and it’s very unhealthy. I did a whole project on it and everything, including all the terms, so rest assured that I sounded a lot more professional at the time. I gave a proper run down on Melbourne’s hyperbaric treatments, and why they get those bubbles out of your brain like nothing else. Like, literally nothing else. Although when I go swimming sometimes I hop up and down on one foot and it clears my ears, so maybe…
-Alan