| How to Safely Free Dive for Lobster Posted: Prepare for a grand adventure to free dive for lobster in the deep blue. Bouillabaisse made with garden vegetables and a freshly caught lobster is very flavorful. Shuck that notion that this is a venture for experts, lobsters are kind of slow and actually easy to catch (overfishing is more of a problem). This is not a commercial undertaking, so be safe, be prepared and have some thrill-seeker's fun. Steps - Find a lobster "hole". Ask your friends, the local spearfishing shop worker, read a local book or magazine, and find an area that has reefs that "looks alive". A reef that looks alive is teeming with life and has healthy coral. Except for slipper lobsters, lobsters will not be found in sandy areas.
- Mobilize two others for this endeavor. Use a boat; a dinghy will do for calm to moderate conditions.
- Go out in mid-morn, fully rested, and on a bright sunny day. Avoid the dusk, night and dawn hours. For subsistence fare, the day hours are clearly sufficient.
- Anchor the boat. Lobsters can be found in waters from ten feet deep and deeper. Most people should not go deeper than 30 feet.
- Throw an additional rope in the water. This rope is for the divers to get a sense of bearing and should be knotted at intervals to signify depth.
- Inform the lookout of your plans and have him or her monitor the water for sharks and excessive dive times. Discuss your working depths, cinch on your weight belts and slip calmly into the abyss. Strive to relax to keep from hyperventilating, and soon you will recall the cold and darkness of the deep.
- Descend slowly and check the depth from the knots on the rope.
- Search the reefs with repeated dives and you will find the lobster - an unsuspecting prey. Going past 10 feet in depth, it gets dark, even in the day carry a small flashlight at the very least. Be careful how you use the flashlight to avoid vision problems. After a while your vision will adjust to the darkness of the depths.
- Grab lobsters from the top and back. Often, they will be partially in a hole, so beware of the vicious moray eels. The eel and the lobster strangely coexist. The three-pronged spear serves a second purpose: coax the lobster into the open with it, so the lobster can be grabbed. Grab the lobster from the back and the top, and away from the moray eel (the spiny lobster has no claws to hurt you).
- Avoid spearing lobsters. A speared lobster will bring the sharks, they like lobsters. A lobster that is not speared tastes better and lives longer.
- Put the lobster in a mesh bag and ascend slowly. Rest in the boat if necessary if tired from the compression.
- Take just what you need, be thankful and return to shore.
Video Warnings - This is not an all inclusive set of precautions to take. Talk to people and read to learn all you can. Be an all around waterman. Be prepared for all possible dangers.
Related wikiHows Sources and Citations - This article is a narrative from Dennis Irie, who allowed this to be posted on wikiHow.
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| How to Make Blooming Tea Posted: Preparing blooming tea (also known as flowering tea) is very simple and pleasant to watch. Typically made of tea leaves bound with flowers, it blooms into a beautiful surprise right in front of your eyes. Ingredients - One blooming tea ball
- 4 cups water
- Sweetener of choice (optional)
Steps - Place one blooming or flowering tea ball in a clear, medium to large sized glass tea pot or tempered glass pitcher.
- Prepare the water. If you know what kind of tea is in the ball (white, green, or black) follow the guidelines in How to Make Tea when determining how hot to make the water. For example, if it is predominantly white tea, the water should not be boiling (170 degrees is best) when poured onto the tea. If the tea is black, bring the water to a full boil.
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Pour water over the bloom. - Watch for three to five minutes as it unravels from a tiny ball into a beautiful flower-like bloom.
- Steep the tea for at least 3 minutes (longer for a darker, more robust tea). Taste the tea as it steeps to see if it has reached a desired strength.
- Pour all the tea into cups. If you're not going to drink it all, pour it into another teapot where it can stay warm. Leaving the hot water in contact with the tea for too long can adversely affect the taste.[1]
- Re-steep the tea. You may be able to do this 2-3 times, depending on the size, brand, how much tea you made, and how long you steeped the tea the first time.
Video Tips - Silver needle white tea has a mild flavor. The longer you steep it (about 15-20 minutes or longer) the more robust the flavor will get. A sweetener, such as honey, will help to bring out the flavor.
- If you don't have a glass pitcher, any glass container that is tall and wide will work as well. A clear container is preferred, however, if you want to see the tea "bloom".
- Blooming tea balls are available online and in many specialty and gift shops.
Warnings - Make sure that the glass container you use is capable of handling boiling water. Some glass containers will crack or even shatter when boiling water is poured in.
Things You'll Need - 1 medium to large glass tea pot or heat proof glass pitcher
- 1 blooming tea ball
- hot or boiling water
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| 7 Steps to Motivating a Friend Who Has the Blues Posted: When you have a friend who is down in the dumps, feeling "tired" all the time and won't venture out anymore, what should you do to help? It can be challenging to get them motivated and ready to head out of their house for any activity if they're really down. While we all get like this at times, if this lethargy and reclusive behavior goes on for a long time, you can play an important role as a friend to help your friend overcome such a slump. This article provides some suggestions to help you motivate your friend to hurdle some of those blues and spend some time being active. Steps - Ask them what's up. If you're not already aware of their problem (such as the death of a loved one, loss of a job, etc.), it's important to understand what is demotivating them first. If you are aware, you'll be ready to offer advice and help that is aimed at successfully helping them through their distress.
- Some people might be reluctant to talk about what's bothering is. Reassure your friend that whatever it is, they can tell you whenever they're ready.
- Ask your friend what sort of help they might want from you. That way, you can be of real assistance should they come up with exact needs. This won't always happen, of course, but it is worth asking so as to not appear to be running roughshod over their own wants and ignoring their feelings.
- Start working on getting your friend active. Once you're aware of the underlying reasons and whether or not they have any concrete needs in mind, it's time to turn into "helper motivational mode". Write down a list of things that you know they used to enjoy doing. Assess this list against:
- Likelihood of your friend's current interest in former activities (for example, if they loved motorcycling but a buddy died while out motorcycling together, your friend may not want to try it again for a while)
- Cost (maybe you can shout an unemployed friend or remind them of free activity opportunities)
- Availability of activity (is it close, far away, convenient or otherwise?)
- Your ability to be involved (e.g., going to the event/activity with your friend, dropping off and picking up your friend, taking others as well, etc.)
- Need for regular dedication (e.g., joining a club, sports team, etc.) and the likelihood of your friend sticking with this
- Other factors that you can think of that might impinge on the success or otherwise of your helper plan.
- Choose an activity that you think will work as a starting step. The activity needs to be doable in a short period of time to begin with; you can build up to more active, lengthy activities as your friend's motivation begins to return. Choose whatever will not make your friend feel exhausted, worried, or afraid to do.
- Offer to spend some quality time with your friend. It might be a movie night-in together, a dinner together at your house, a walk down the beach together, a shopping trip, etc. It is most important that you make yourself available for your friend so that they can be with someone that they trust and can rely upon.
- Keep building up the motivational activities. One time a week, two times a week, three times a week, etc. As you see your friend becoming more motivated again and feeling safe and comfortable in getting out and about, gradually curtail some of your involvement. You might, for instance, offer to drive them to their Pilates class but not to join in with it anymore.
- Keep in touch. As well as activities, stay in touch by phone, texting, email, and small, short notes that praise your friend's good points. Let your friend know that you care, that you're available when needed, and that there is always light at the end of a bad period of life. And mostly, that friends are there for the long haul.
Tips - Sometimes a friend-in-need also needs professional help. If you feel that they are suffering from depression, anxiety, phobias, etc., help them to get professional care and advice. Although you can be supportive, your friend will need independent help to take care of such issues and even if you are a fully trained psychologist, this isn't a role for you to undertake as a friend! It can be good to help them see that feeling really low for a long time can be fixed and is not something they should have to put up with. At the very least, convince your friend to see a doctor if the blues persist.
Warnings - Be careful not to lose patience or try to force your friend into a different pattern of behavior by saying something like "Get over it". Not only does this sound discouraging to someone who is having difficulty dealing with the blues, but it can also have an added, negative effect of making you appear insensitive and unsupportive, possibly leading your friend to stop listening to you or coming to you for help.
A "get over it statement" may also be damaging to someone who may be suffering from something more serious, such as clinical depression. Related wikiHows |
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