My Trip To La Jolla With Scuba Diving Equipments

Diving in La Jolla, California a few years ago became quite a treat. I had been asked by a friend of mine who always liked to challenge himself and others. See, I like hot tropical weather. La Jolla is not hot tropical weather. This was not going to be a day of snorkel equipment. My new scuba accessories would come in handy.

67, 68 degrees at best that day, the water wasn’t very tropical at all. That was back in the days when I thought diving at 67 degrees was cold and unfit for diving. I guess I’ve changed my mind since then. I kind of had to change my mind.

Steven had been my friend for years. We go back to the days when we took our diving lessons at the YMCA. It was just something we always shared. We loved diving. We’ve been diving since, but our lives have taken us in different directions and we live in two different parts of the world. Him in California. Me in the Southern most tip of Florida.

When he got a hold of me to dive with him in La Jolla, I couldn’t turn him down. Steve didn’t really answer me when I asked him how cold the weather was. He just sort of shrugged off my question, �It’s warming up quite a bit.�

My SCUBA accessories included my new CompuMask from Aeris, which got Steven going. �Does that thing have a GPS and play songs for you while you’re down there?� His laugh was a full bellow that echoed over the water.

�No, but it will tell me the temperature when I get down there.� That shut him up real quick. It won’t. But, what does he know?

The Aeris CompuMask HUD Dive Computer Mask can tell you just about everything else. It has an LCD panel that does not hinder your dive whatsoever, but presents critical information to you that you need. Like, your depth, your elapsed dive time, your cylinder pressure and your remaining dive time. It has a USB cable and connection as well as software so that you can create the settings on your computer and then upload them to your mask.

I got a little cold. But, I stayed tough. I hadn’t been in cold water in a long time. I tell you what though, I knew when to go to the surface. Steven was serious when we got back on land. �How did that thing work for you?�

�It worked great! I got to see everything and stay on top of the dive.�

�Really, I might have to get me one of those things.�

The guy who likes to rough it. It’s a wonder to see. Steven is finally going to step up into the new generation of diving.