{"id":4551,"date":"2017-08-27T10:28:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T17:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2017-09-12T21:18:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T04:18:23","slug":"an-american-dives-in-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychosolodiver.com\/?p=4551","title":{"rendered":"An American Dives In North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 14, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I say I’m going to do something, I do it.<\/p>\n

I used to have that kind of persistency with women, but restraining orders, jail and getting beaten up all the time made me pursue traveling as a safer option.<\/p>\n

However, this will also probably be the lamest dive report that I have ever posted.<\/p>\n

I knew the hotel had a pool, so I brought my mask to go diving there, so I can say “I went diving in North Korea.”<\/p>\n

The pool at the Yanggakdo International Hotel is in the basement next to the saunas and the “male only” massage parlor.<\/p>\n

Unlike the pools in the Capitalist west, it costs $4.50 to use the pool if you are a hotel guest.<\/p>\n

With my mask and underwater camera in hand I carefully entered the pool, making sure not to disturb the person doing laps on the other side.<\/p>\n

I could not detect any chlorine or salt in the water but it was cool and clear. <\/p>\n

Visibility was excellent – you could see all the way to the other side of the pool.<\/p>\n

I think this was the first time in a long time I did not have fins, and I forgot how awkward swimming in bare feet is; there is absolutely no momentum kicking without fins.<\/p>\n

As I swam from one side of the pool to the next, the temperature changed as I went by the jets of warm water that kept the pool warm.<\/p>\n

As I exited and left to go back to my hotel room, I had accidentally tracked water in to the lobby.<\/p>\n

Instead of giving me 15 years of hard labor, I was handed an extra towel.<\/p>\n

Video is here:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DPRK Trip – An American Goes Diving In The DPRK – Part 11 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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