Snorkeling
Zachary Sherrill
10/25/12
2B
Describe a Significant moment/experience from your life that has a special meaning to you.
Snorkeling
Taking risks come with accidental consequences. I was on a vacation to Oahu, Hawaii, when I perforated my eardrum snorkeling in shark’s cove. It was the second day on the best vacation that I had been on with my family. My father and I wanted to go snorkeling really badly since we were going to Hawaii and thought it would be a great experience. When we started, all was going great, the water was crystal clear, tons of fish, coral, and other sea life. Then along came the monstrous 12ft hammerhead shark that roams around the cove every so often. It started to swim closer to us, so my father and I decided to go down near the coral so it wouldn’t think about us as food. As we descended down about 10 feet or so I heard a loud pop in my ear, but thought nothing of it because I was too worried about the shark. When we finally came up after the shark started to turn around to leave, my ear felt like someone was stabbing my eardrum repeatedly, with a red hot knife. I talked to my dad and asked if there could be something wrong with my ear after I told him what happened as we went down towards the coral. He then told me to go under water and tilt my head to the side and blow air out my nose as I plug it. And he said as I did so, a stream of bubbles came from my ear. I asked if that was bad, and he sad “It can be, but it doesn’t seem so bad now and there’s not much we can do beside get some earplugs for you”. From that point on I couldn’t go into the water as much because of the pressure of the water hurt my ear. After the whole week of wearing the earplugs on the vacation in which everything that we did had to do with water, we went to the doctor as we got back to Virginia Beach. The doctor looked in my ear and said that I had a small hole in my eardrum. He also said to try and stay out of the water for about 2 to 3 months
10/25/12
2B
Describe a Significant moment/experience from your life that has a special meaning to you.
Snorkeling
Taking risks come with accidental consequences. I was on a vacation to Oahu, Hawaii, when I perforated my eardrum snorkeling in shark’s cove. It was the second day on the best vacation that I had been on with my family. My father and I wanted to go snorkeling really badly since we were going to Hawaii and thought it would be a great experience. When we started, all was going great, the water was crystal clear, tons of fish, coral, and other sea life. Then along came the monstrous 12ft hammerhead shark that roams around the cove every so often. It started to swim closer to us, so my father and I decided to go down near the coral so it wouldn’t think about us as food. As we descended down about 10 feet or so I heard a loud pop in my ear, but thought nothing of it because I was too worried about the shark. When we finally came up after the shark started to turn around to leave, my ear felt like someone was stabbing my eardrum repeatedly, with a red hot knife. I talked to my dad and asked if there could be something wrong with my ear after I told him what happened as we went down towards the coral. He then told me to go under water and tilt my head to the side and blow air out my nose as I plug it. And he said as I did so, a stream of bubbles came from my ear. I asked if that was bad, and he sad “It can be, but it doesn’t seem so bad now and there’s not much we can do beside get some earplugs for you”. From that point on I couldn’t go into the water as much because of the pressure of the water hurt my ear. After the whole week of wearing the earplugs on the vacation in which everything that we did had to do with water, we went to the doctor as we got back to Virginia Beach. The doctor looked in my ear and said that I had a small hole in my eardrum. He also said to try and stay out of the water for about 2 to 3 months