11:45am, Saturday
Not descend...
Jules was face-down in the water, still floating on the surface, taking increasingly annoyed breaths from her regulator.
Well, shit...
Out of curiosity, she took a look around underwater. Laura and Ashley were both lying on their stomachs on the bottom, seemingly playing rock paper scissors.
Jules looked back forwards to see Fiona looking back up at her from the bottom.
It was weird. The pool was shallow enough that Jules could stand up with the water barely reaching up to her breasts, so Fiona was barely a metre below her.
It felt further though...
Why couldn't she go down?
She went for the inflator hose again and pressed the deflate button again.
Nothing really happened, and Jules stayed at the surface.
Fiona, graceful as a dolphin, lifted up from the bottom and stood up next to her.
With some difficulty, Jules swung her legs down and managed to also stand up.
Before she could apologise for being useless, Fiona already had her regulator out of her mouth.
"Yeah, you definitely don't have enough weight..." She said, clearly thinking out loud.
"I thought you and Laura knew what you're doing?" Jules half-joked.
Fiona shot daggers back at her as she motioned for Jules to reinflate her BCD.
"Weighting is a bit of a vague thing..." She sighed, "Like, it depends on so many different factors that it's hard to work out without just trying it out in the water."
Jules was weirdly intrigued, and found herself briefly forgetting about how embarrassed she was.
"Oh?" She queried.
Fiona waddled over to the pool side and grabbed a pair of small, zip-up bags, opening them to reveal they had more lead weights in them.
"Well, how buoyant you are depends on how dense you are, so it depends on how heavy you are, how tall you are, how thick your wetsuit is..." she said, as she checked how much weight each bag contained.
"Huh..." Jules said, wondering something, "But you don't seem to have anywhere near as much weight as I do, and you sink fine?"
Fiona just laughed softly.
"Yeah..." she said, "Your buoyancy also depends on how much air is in your lungs."
"Okay...?" Jules said, unable to work out why that was relevant.
"Basically, because you're really nervous right now, you're breathing really fast, and your lungs are always pretty full." Fiona explained.
"Oh..." Jules responded, feeling slightly sheepish. "Sorry..."
Fiona stopped in her tracks, halfway through zipping the weight bags back up, and turned to Jules with a stern look on her face.
Jules couldn't work out what she'd done wrong, as the gorgeous redhead put a gentle hand on her arm.
"Jules..." Fiona said slowly, "You haven't done anything wrong."
Oh yeah... She'd apologised for something that wasn't technically her fault...
She was about to automatically apologise again, but managed to stop herself.
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