Feb
06
2007

Chopping block?

I am sitting here listening to Daraboka, Arabic music from Egypt that I picked up in Dahab. My right ring finger is getting a little excited, twitching up and down and doing a little dance. This is because it hears music from home….?

Once again, my finger that I cut diving the Red Sea shipwreck, the Thislegorm, almost 2 MONTHS AGO, is re-infected and on fire. I went to the doctor yesterday and he said that there are nasty marine bacterias that live in the tissue and never die. Like any good American doctor, he gave me a lifetime supply of antibiotics and told me to call him later. When it starts oozing, he wants a sample for a culture. Just think, a little piece of Egypt will be alive inside of me forever. (too bad its eating my finger)

Wow – I knew that it was a bad dive, but this is my third round of antibiotics and I have fought this thing for 2 months. Its under my fingernail and my finger is numb below the last knuckle anyway, I am seriously contemplating just offing the damn thing to be done with it, I only type with 2 fingers anyway! :)


Nov
28
2006
Nov
08
2006

Diving disaster!

Hey...how did the boat get all the way over there? :)

I havent even found the pyramids yet and today I already seem to have an evil eye curse above my hut that would make the nastiest of mummies jealous.

As mentioned below, I went on my sleep-aboard, 90 EUR, 3 dive extravaganza of Thistlegorm outside, then inside the wreck with torches, then Ras Mohammed park outside of Sharm. Just having those 2 sites in your dive logbook are enough to earn mucho respect from dive masters all over the world. It is some of the finest diving in the world. I gave it my best shot, but looks like I will be postponing those log entries.

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