The Rock 

CONTRIBUTED, UNKNOWINGLY, BY SALLY SOWELL, COURSE DIRECTOR DIVERS DEPOT

Once a year we do what is called 'Trashfest' where we clean up local dive sites. We were in the Guadalupe River (me + six students) near New Braunfels, Texas, and were 'walking' up river picking up trash. Mind you, the average depth in this river is about 12-15 ft and crystal clear. One of my students had not weighted herself properly and was underweighted by about 4lbs. I gave her 4 lbs of mine and continued the dive. That made me under-weighted, so I picked up a large 4lb rock and continued upriver. Ten minutes later I looked back to get a  headcount and lo and behold we where all there, but, hadn't picked up a whole lot of trash....each and everyone of them had picked up a large rock and were mimicking me (hands full). I had always told them to imitate me when diving and they would probably be okay.

Sometimes they listen too well.