diving

So, as i have foreseen it, my fieldtrip needed to be cancelled. Because we got touched by a taifun and a low pressure system above china, we have 2 m waves hitting the coast. For me to work and for the boat to anchor just to much. So i skip it to next week. Three days ago, because of the waves, three vietnamese people drawned at the beach. Their bodies still not discovered. I hope they are not washed into my working sites. The last thing i want to find are corpse under water. But with this wave action as well as currents we face here at the moment they will be most likely washed offshore.

Yesterday a guy wanted to help me, because of the cancelling he followed his normal jop as a divemaster. And he said i've been glad that i didn't went out to work. Even in 10 m depth one was shooked by the waves and on top of this the visibility was really poor because of the sediments which got dispersed.

Hope next week the sea is calm again and work can go on as usual...

So i think its time for a little update...

Work goes allright. Meanwhile something like a routine has come into my activities. So the weeks are structured and every day has its duties. The language so far is still an enigma to me. Last week I tried for a hour or so to get the right salutation if you wanna something from somebody. And guess what, they have about 15 of them. Below my age (or the persons who wants do adress) exist one, exept for children under the age of 7. At my age there is one for male and one for female. Above my age there is one for male (same as for same age) but another one for female. For people at the age of my father (-20 years) exist another one (for simple reason mother side is left out) and than it goes on for the age of grandfather and grandgrandfather. If i remember right there are also forms in between.

So you see its not so easy, i think if you not grown into it you will have a hard life...

In my department is it comparative quiet. Everybody seems to be on fieldtrips. So tomorrow i will be alone on the boat, but fortunately a friend, who works here as a divemaster, will join me. Hope so the work can be done. The last days been a taifune out in the china sea, so the waves are actually somewhat high. Hope it will be better tomorrow, otherwise i might be able to feed the fishes (or what is left from them). Last week it took me 1 1/2 days to see the world even. We'll see about tomorrow. Normally i'm fine with this stuff on small boats, but if you process your samples you look straight down  than in the water its also shaky because i work at shalow depth.

So there is no way to recover...

I will certainly have some fun out there, but ifs too bad i break up the journey!

working again...

Trinh, who goes out on fieldtrips with me...

Me at work... Do i have to say more?

Today i just give some random thoughts, actually as usual

I'm really quite fascinated by the traffic. The turning for example is special. In most countries you just do a 90° turn if you wanna go right or left, here it's different. If you wanna turn left you need to pass the oncoming traffic. To stop here wait for a gap or that people let you pass just doesn't works. So what you do here is that you start turning at the beginning of the junction in a 30° angle while doing so you make your way through the oncoming traffic. They will go around you, just don't be affraid. Sometimes you have to go slower, sometimes to accelerate. If you wanna be a bit more local, than press th honk while turning at least several times. But this multitasking can be difficult, especially for the male fraction... And always remember the right of way goes from big to small. Cars before bikes, and thebigger they are the more/stronger rights they have!

Yesterday i went out to have fundives, not to work. Here are around twelve divingclubs, but one of them are really nice, friendly people and good diver as well. They invited me to come with them and i did. Been to the only reef here where it is for normal people allowed to dive and did three dives. Was quite nice, the visibility was all right and they dives have been relaxed. The coral reefs here are not as good as on other places, but you can still see some nice things (small sized) and if you into corals, you also will get one's money's worth.

The Vietnamse Guide was really good, i think is one of the best divers i ever met and he has eyes which are unbelievable. He sees and finds things.... E.g  he spotted a flunder which  layed around 15 meters away on the sand (really good camouflaged) and not even in our direction... so we saw among other things ghost pipefishes, stonefishes and a frogfish which is not common here.

In the evening we had a Vietnames BBQ with them and after that we went in a bar to have a drink. Due to the outside life here you sit (at least in Vietnamese places) on the small chairs, which i mentioned before. So while we drunk the police showed up. Actually  they drive a small truck and they are sitting on the truck rack. Because you are only allowed to take for your business half of the footpath you allways need to watch for the police. So this time they have been spotted to late, so at the time they jumped of the truck everybody got up, took they chairs and tables and tried to hide them or put them into the shop. Because the police takes everything what is on the wrong half of the footpath. We only lost one chair to them, other groups lost a lot more

They just pick them up put 'em on their truck rack and take off. I heard you can go to their depot and get your stuff back against a nice paiment. But to buy it new is cheaper

So thats for today, keep looking up if you're interested and if you like add a comment, because is also nice to see what people thinking while reading the text....