First official day on the job. The first hour was spent in safety orientation (Safety First!). The rest of the day, I tried to be the sponge, soaking up everything I need to know about the entire refinery. I need a bigger sponge - I mean, brain.
I bought a new spear. I went to the local dive shop and they didn't have exactly what I wanted. But the owner directed me to - ya gotta be kidding - Kmart. So I bought an aluminum hawaiian sling. I don't like fiberglass (the slivers take forever to work their way out of your hands) and the graphite ones cost a fortune - relatively speaking. So aluminum it is. And I think the fancy 3-prong head the dive shop has will fit on it. Too many fish get off the average 3 prong.
So now I can go Roi hunting. Who is Roi, you may ask? Not who, but what. Roi are a type of sea bass, non-edible, and terribly invasive. Someone brought them to Hawaii where they are devastating the local fish. They carry a nasty dinoflagellate so you can't eat them. But they are very wary and difficult to spear. GAME ON! I don't like killing things for no reason, even to eat them occasionally, but for some reason I have no qualms about killing Roi. There are two other bad invasives but I'm not sure what they look like. But when I find out..... KaPow!
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