lizi splash project

This week was very fun. We got to do scuba diving and we also got to go to a Napoleonic fort. The best bit was when we got to do a practice archaeological retrieval underwater.
On day one we got to go to the British museum and look at Sutton hoo.
On day two we got to go to the London school of diving and have an introductory course on how to work the scuba equipment. This included learning all the hand signals and learning the four skills. These included how to clear your mask, how to retrieve your regulator, and how to clear your regulator in two different ways. We also played underwater rocket, and underwater Frisbee. We went down to the bottom of the pool and learned how to hover, and how to make yourself go up and down with just your breathing. We also learned how to equalize and how to not pop your lungs open.
On day three we got to go to the Napoleonic fort called fort Cumberland, and we got to look at the remnants of a shipwreck that was called the HMS Victory that was washed up on the shore of Portsmouth, just meters away from the coast of Portsmouth, on which the fort Cumberland was located. On the coach journey back (we were very late) we played black jack, and I learned how to play cheat. The coach ride there was very tedious and we ended being very late there because the coach river got the wrong address and the journey took three and a half hours.
On Thursday we got to do a practiced archaeological retrieval. This includes measuring objects, drawing them, and writing down where they are located in a special manner. (Offset and trilateration.) We had to do all this under water. We did it in buddies and Randa was mine. It was very fun.
Today, day five we are making a movie and we are writing this blog. On of the children who is meant to be with us today is ill so that is very sad. We are all using strange accents to talk to each other in because it is fun, and Chiara's accent is very cool. She sounds very welsh, like that car advert for confused dot com.

All in all this was a very good week.