Sunsets of Tulum by Raymond Avery Bartlett

Author:Raymond Avery Bartlett [Bartlett, Raymond Avery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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An hour and a half later, Reed was waist-deep in what had to have been the coldest swimming pool in all of Mexico, water “cold enough,” as Lance had warned them, “that your testicles will retreat toward your body cavity for warmth.” Despite a thin rental wetsuit, Reed was shivering uncontrollably, goose flesh covering his arms and legs, as were most of the other people in the small dive group.

Lance, muscles bulging beneath his taut, bronzed hide, hadn’t even opted to wear a wetsuit and didn’t seem the least cold. There were three other people in the group: a couple in their late forties who were here on a honeymoon, and a guy in his mid-twenties from Paris. True to the breed, the man had donned a bikini that rivaled Clione’s in size, and Reed found it hard not to be distracted by what was clearly one of the largest penises he’d ever seen, filling the tiny swimsuit to the bursting point.

“Quite the banana hammock,” Clione whispered.

“If that guy coughs,” Reed answered, “the suit’s going to explode.”

Lance demonstrated what the exercise was supposed to do. “You’re underwater, okay? You’re swimming, and suddenly you lose your mask. Someone kicks it off with their fin and suddenly, you can’t see anything. It happens a lot, actually. Happens all the time.” He turned around. “What are you going to do?”

Nobody answered.

“Drown?” Reed offered.

Lance slapped a hand down into the water like a teacher hitting a desk. “No! That’s why we’re here freezing our nuts off in this pool. So we don’t drown. So we know exactly what to do in an emergency.” He raised his mask, held it off his head and demonstrated in the same theatrical, rehearsed fluidity of a flight attendant giving the safety instructions just prior to take-off. “We go like this, and like this, and then we tilt it like this….” He held the bottom lip of the mask slightly off his face. “And then we blow. Exhale. What are we exhaling? Air. What happens when the air gets trapped by the upper lip of the mask? Huh? The mask fills up, you put it back on, you keep on enjoying the dive. Now, we do it underwater. Like this.”

He bobbed under, and the class watched him pull the mask away from his face, then replace it. He blew a cloud of bubbles that obscured the view completely, but when he stood up, the mask was tightly back on his face with the water gone.

“Easy, right? Now you try.”

They took turns. Clione performed the maneuver almost as fluidly as Lance had, bobbing up seconds after she’d gone down. She knew exactly what she was doing, as comfortable underwater as a sea lion.

Reed lifted the mask to his face and ducked under. The icy water stung his scalp and burned his face, but he stayed under despite the cold. Hoping to impress Clione, he pulled the

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