What do I do here?

Here is the picture of the Blue Striped Butterfly frish from Friday night's dive. The blue stripes are pretty amazingly electric blue and really reflect the light from my flash.

So I realized that I haven't really explained what the intern duties are here, it probably seems to you all that I am just having a grand old time like on vacation. I am having a great time, but its definately not vacation.

The intern duties are very similar to duties other interns around the nation may have, only they are completely different. They are the same in that we are incharge of the menial type tasks that have to get done, but the bossmen don't really want to do. So for the other interns who may be filing, copying or getting coffee, and wrangling cables, logging files, or moving equipment, we are doing that equivalent.

The interns are in charge of packing all the equipment for the dives (tanks, BCD, regulators, wetsuit, fins, mask, snorkel, etc). As well as the camera, extra tape, the playback TV for after the dive and whatever else may be needed. We also set up the equipment on the boat (attaching the SCUBA equipment together, filling the rinse bucket, so on and so forth. At the end of the dive we put it all away and rinse it off and hang up back at the house.

At the house we help edit the video, burn DVD's, make labels, package the DVD's that are being mailed and help deliver the ones to the dive shops for pickup.

So all in all there is alot going on at any given time and we are often spread out on different boats around Kona or at the house helping out, or relaxing when there is time. (Like I am going to do right now!) :o)