06/04/2026
New slide show up: https://youtu.be/rsFte_rzsP4
Yesterday, we took our graduated Scuba Educators International Full-Face Mask student, Angela Dial Roth, into the Comal River at New Braunfels Parks and Recreation's Hinman Island Park for some low-visibility, task-loaded training. We figured that if it looked like a raging torrent of Yoohoo Drink on Thursday after the flooding, it'd still be all kinds of turbid by Monday.
Nope. 4-6 feet of viz with a gentle current. Still, we got the opportunity for task loading by handing off the metal detector and taking still photographs of the wildlife.
The result is a short 9-minute slide documentary about some of the local fauna. Angela and Bill are both wearing the Guardian Full Face Mask by Ocean Technology Systems and Bill is wielding the Garrett Metal Detectors Sea Hunter MkII on Thursday after the flooding, it'd still be all kinds of turbid.