Saturday, August 9, 2008

Lebanon Dive Shop

If only one of those existed. The only place to fill up a tank in Lebanon is at the local fire station. Tom and I went into eat dinner with a group of people and then stopped at the fire station. The local fire chief visited Cedars a while ago and got the grand tour. His question was, "How old do you have to be to be a camper here?" So, Bill called him and asked if there was any place that Tom could fill his tank in Lebanon and he responded by saying the only place was the fire station and then very quickly volunteered to fill the tank. That is why we ended up at a fire station instead of a dive shop.

We pulled up to the fire station and went to the front door and rang the door bell. No one answered. We rang it again. No one answered. We walked around into the garage and called out. No one answered. We decided to make one last attempt at the front door. This time Tom made me ring the door bell. And guess what, someone finally answered. We went to the air compressor and got it set up. Now all we needed to do was put the adapter on the tank. It did not fit. The adapter was about 20 years old and the tank was new. Apparently the new tanks are wider at top than an old tank. So the only place within an hour of camp to fill up air tanks does not have an adapter to fit the one tank we have. So we leave and go back to camp.

Once back to camp, we collected all of Tom's gear and the pool light bulbs, the reason for our diving excursion. We set up the gear and found out that he only had 500 psi of air left. You usually start with around 3000 psi. So we decided that we would only use the air when we needed to return the light to the bottom of the pool once we changed the light bulb. We attempt to fix 4 different light bulbs and only succeed in fixing 2 of them. One fixed itself just by taking it out of the wall. So it was not too successful in fixing the pool lights, but we did make the pool dirty just in time for the parents.

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