Park University - Narva Yearbook (Parkville, MO)

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Imagine. There you are two-hundred miles off the coast of some tropical is¬ land. You ' re about to make your first dive. The air in your tanks have been checked, your mouth piece is o.k. and so are your air hoses. This is it. You ' re finally going to make that first big dive. Now you ' re 100 feet below the sur¬ face of the water. It ' s hard to believe what you ' re seeing. There is nothing around you but clear blue water. Sud¬ denly, a strange fish swims past youQ mask. Over to your right is th re m aw of some sunken shia B t . that coming looks like, noMfe ®; maybe . . . imS Now that ' si ' m js the tirnC - ' Aftef- thirt cit tank. After se al tries and a few abrupt returns to the surface, the stu¬ dents seemed to have the system pretty well mastered. At the end of dent had to tal di B Na a s an open wa¬ ter check Lake of the Ozark f i i(into ( ilA their certifi- catesH i-haeosed diver j ce they passe toplest and a written n ' 3 ' bl ites t, Jjl ai were certified divers. Thi the students can now go diving the United States. KSI ipU er of the Dive Shop ' N |fi |t |-Ciass . d-said- the to team.” Students in the class cwn|] ga if was great, and added everything is better underwater. Scuba Diving will be loffered again in the Fall of 81 and if y take, ydu too mavv,j»i!lOday bnd up offthe cgagt of island, JC s mSialong antr d al out if that to leave. That first big dive. Many of us may never experience it, but for the eight students enrolled in the Scuba Diving class, it ' s a thing of the past. Scuba (Self-Contained-Underwater- Breathing-Apperatus) Diving was offered for tha rst time at Park taSt semester snaflUprwig to the stud tis. ' 1 h took A|i| Pch as equipment? ing tech- jiipip water safety and thi effects of wcohol, drugs and to faaccq J av e on the Every other w |pt J||pdents would meet in thej ol to practice and perfect j SK H use of the buddy system : Vj | it acticed. Here the students who .wete idivided up into groups of two ' s, W qpfd tnrow alh their equipment in the pool except one air tank and mouth piece, and ' simultaniously jump into the vyater and try to put their equipment a . On. While under the water, the fljad to share that one oxygen ?rt)ct6pus. see all one you deeid nf o a while. You ' fe )f your heartbeats, founding of your SCUBA DIVING 25