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YSS: Scuba instructors see diving as ‘great equalizer’
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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.