One Man’s Walk through life

Diving For The First Time

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so, today…

I went diving. for the first time. yay!

2 girls and Luis from my hostel were going, and they invited me. since I’d never done it before, I would have had to do a class for one dive and then I could go with them for the second. I wasn’t going to go, it’s expensive, and to be honest, I’ve never been that comfortable in the ocean. but I figured it would be cheaper here than elsewhere, and I could probably chip away a little more of my fear of saltwater, so this morning when they were getting ready to go, I asked if I still could and they said yes. so I did.

Going out there I was so excited. I had my own divemaster, and the 2 girls and another guy had Luis as their dive master. we split up and he did the basics with me. So he was going over how to clear your mask and I tried it and I totally freaked out, or at least I was way uncomfortable and had to come back up (we were sitting a couple feet underwater). I was almost ready to nix the whole thing, but we decided we would go ahead and try to dive at a depth where if I wanted to come up suddenly I could without my lungs exploding . So we did.

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…and it was RAD. Over the course of the 1 1/2 hour first dive I did w/ dave, his name was, I totally overcame that fear or panic or whatever, chilled, figured out how to do the mask thing, and got to see a TON of really cool fish, not to mention swim through an underwater forest. It was amazing.

Then we came up, went to a little cottage they have (this is in the middle of a national park where they don’t permit land vehicles – we got there by boat) ate GREAT food, fish, etc, I was so hungry. And slept in hammocks for a while. Then we joined the others for another dive, where we went a lot deeper, and actually saw a barracuda, among other things. But all was well, and THAT was a day well spent.