Two times cheese sandwich and muesli for breakfast and ready to dive for nine a.m. After a bit of juggling around, the dive school sent me and Teresa (not my Teresa, but a lady who works for Microsoft from Seattle in America) Our, almost private, tutor was Jan. Scottish Jan was an amazing teacher and explained excellently everything that we needed to know. Then uut for the dives! The first diving spot was a area close to an old hospital and island where all the malaria infected people from banana plantations were sent (mostly to die, I believe. What a location to die though!) Under water was even better; all shapes and colours of fish. Just like watching a diving film on the tv but for real. You can touch some things, and they react in funky ways. We found the biggest crabs and lobsters that I had ever seen under rocks. The second dive was in between two islands. Popped off the boat backwards. It wasn’t easy the first time, but the second was cool. Fish in blue, black and white stripes or just very big heads. A maaaaassive flat fish colony: they are also individually huge! There were so many types of coral: red, green, white, blue; some with half a meter of raised up fingers. UNBIELIEVEBLE!!!!!!!! I never, ever thought that diving could be that interesting. It has to be on the list of 1000 things to do before you die. The world has just got bigger for me.
Anyway off for a cold shower (you could not have a hot one here trust me!) and some scoff , followed by couple of beers . (I’m not allowed to abuse alcohol before diving – so two is the maximum). Need to reduce my residual hydrogen in my vanes, before tomorrow’s session.
Anyway off for a cold shower (you could not have a hot one here trust me!) and some scoff , followed by couple of beers . (I’m not allowed to abuse alcohol before diving – so two is the maximum). Need to reduce my residual hydrogen in my vanes, before tomorrow’s session.