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Signed up for diving lessons and got my open water cert. The picture is of me on the final dive. We were supposed to do it in four days but were making good time, so completed it in three.
THe group was quite small, just me a girl that did the previous expedition (Helen) and a couple of Malay chaps. There was another guy but he got a reverse blockage in his ear on the second day so had to bail.
Diving is awesome. There were quite a few storms so the sea was choppy and visibility wasn't great, but it was good enough to know I really enjoyed it. At one point we were diving with a thunder storm going on overhead! It was also amzing how quickly you develop confidence under water. The first lesson was taking your mask off about 1.5m down and it was such a nerve racking experience, I almost had to go to the surface. But once I'd done that everything seemed easy and I was soon confidently diving down to 18m.
Check out the video of the journey to the Island on the second day, to see how bad the storm was - though I still managed to get sun burnt!!!
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