The Diver with a Compressor Hose
When my friend went home from the US, our entire circle of friends went to the island of Boracay to unwind and catch up with each other’s lives. We tried different water sports; island hopped, and partied the night away. We all signed up for diving lessons since none of us had experienced it before. We rented out diving gears and headed out to a marine sanctuary near one of the small islands and had our first diving lesson.
When we were heading nearer to the dive site, I noticed a professional diver jump from the boat, but unlike the other divers, he had a long, blue tube connected to him. I asked our instructor what was it for, and he told me that it was a compressor hose. It delivers gas from a machine pumping it, to the deep sea diver, who needs it. He told us that the diver with the compressor hose was a marine biologist. He had to stay underwater in the very deep part of the ocean for a long time to get samples, take pictures, and observe various deep sea creatures. I realized how marine biologists, or deep sea divers in general, put themselves in peril just to give us information about the exotic world under the sea.