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Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020 Shelton-Mason County Journal Page A-25 YSS: Scuba instructors see diving as ‘great equalizer’ ,4. . 3),: mantis; continued from page A-24 ' the surface of the water, the Yackels remain fasci— nated by the environment they encounter. “The underwater water is incredible,” Kather- ine Yackel said. “And especially in this area, you’ll encounter animals you won’t find anywhere else. It’s a world that you simply wouldn’t be able to see without scuba.” John Yackel sees scuba diving as advancing environmental awareness, because so much of what happens underthe surface of the water has the potential to be “out of sight, out of mind” for many humans. Through scuba diving, people can witness the changes wrought to the undersea en— vironment, all without contributing further harm themselves. “We take pictures, and leave only bubbles be— hind,” Katherine Yackel said. The Yackels noted the physical freedoms af- forded by scuba diving, especially to those who have mobility problems. > ‘ “Scuba diving is a great equalizer,” Katherine Yackel said. “Everybody can use the same equip- ment, whether they’re amputees or they have autism.” John Yackel cited the relaxing quiet of scuba diving as a potential appeal for those who feel as- saulted by the sensory stimulation of the world above water, and noted that mobility problems lessen when the body’s neutral in water allows people to move not just in two dimensions, but in a third as well. “It’s as close as you can get to being an astro- naut in space,” John Yackel said. “You’re not quite weightless, but you have a choice, of not just side to side, but up or down. You can swim over or un- der things you, encounter in the water.” Katherine Yackel pointed out that scuba train— ing can even count toward credits on a college transcript. The Yackels hope the community will join them for an underwater pumpkin-carving contest on Halloween at 9 a.m., complete with prizes for cat— egories including best design. John Yackel said pumpkins’ innate buoyancy makes the contest akin to‘ bobbing for apples in reverse, even before the carving knives come out. He said he’s been impressed by the talent demon- strated by competitors when he’s conducted such contests. The details are still being worked out, but Katherine Yackel hopes to follow this event with underwater pictures with Santa Claus in time for the winter holidays. For more information, go to YSS Dive’s site at yssdive.com. Keith Jones of YSS Dive prepares the shop’s equipment in Hoodsport. Journal photos by Lloyd Mullen Trilogy: Coscarelli plays With reality, fears of loss and‘death continued from page A-24 Or maybe both men are just crazy, suffering from dementia and conspira- cy theories they’d cooked up with their Swiss—cheesed memories, as they de- velop a friendship as fellow residents of a run-down nursing home, whose other inhabitants appear to be getting knocked off, one by one, by an Egyp- tian mummy. Whether these two men are who they believe themselves to be is almost irrelevant, because they’re at the end of their lives, when all they have left are lingering laments over what they wish they’d done differently, with no loved ones to comfort them as they count down hovVever little time they have remaining. ' As in Sam Raimi’s “Evil Dead” films, Campbell can come across as a buffoonish, square-jawed caricature of a man, but he still makes it hit like a punch to the gut when his Elvis says to Davis’ JFK, “We weren’t there for our kids when they needed us, were we?” It’s that guilt that motivates both men to cast aside their cowardice and save the souls of their fellow nurs— ing home residents from the redneck mummy they derisively call “Bubba Ho-Tep,” regaining their own dignity in the process, in a finale that will make you laugh out loud and put a Jody (Bill Thornbury) receives a less-than-welcoming reminder about the commencement of funeral services from the Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) in Don Coscarelli’s “Phantasm” in 1979. Courtesy photo lump in your throat at the same time. 3. JOHN DIES AT THE END (2012) What if, instead of someone like I Marvel’s Doctor Strange or the Ghost- ,busters (all of whom at least had their doctorates) being in charge of protecting humanity from supernatu- ral threats, it was an aimless, perpet- ually traumatized slacker in his 205, and his idiot burnout best friend? The hopelessly out-of-his-depth David Wong (Chase Williamson) and his recklessly enthusiastic sidekick John “Cheese” (Rob Mayes) routinely do battle with weird foes such as zom- bie skinheads and monsters made out of reanimated meat. But it’s when the duo experi- ments with a drug nicknamed “the Soy Sauce” that their minds are fully blown, just as they find themselves facing an invasion of cultists from an alternate timeline of human history. Like “Bubba Ho-Tep,” which was based on the novella of the same name by Joe R. Lansdale, “John Dies at the End” benefits from being based on the novel of the same name by Da- vid Wong, whose fertile imagination throws all sorts of college philosophy— level thought experiments at his own in-story surrogate, as tangible prob- lems for him to solve. . What Coscarelli does with this inventive material is imbue it with the plummeting pit-of—your-stomach sensation of a powerful drug trip gone horribly wrong, thanks in no small part to the frantic, scrambling-across- the-floor performance of Williamson as Wong. He’s surrounded by a host of genre luminaries in the film’s supporting cast, from Paul Giamatti as a dogged and skeptical yet open-minded re? porter, Clancy Brown (the Kurgan from “Highlander” and the voice of Lex Luthor from “Superman: The Animated Series”) as a professional spiritual investigator, Doug Jones (the fish-man from “The Shape of Wa- ter”) as an alien man of mystery, and the Tall Man himself, Angus Scrimm, as an initially benevolent priest. The film’s epilogue is hilariously pitch-perfect.