SCUBA Adventures

Thursday morning Meagan and I separated for the first time as I was going for my SCUBA adventure and she was going to do an overnight snorkeling trip. We hopped on the ProDive II early in the morning, had some breakfast and then off we went. The instructors weren't joking when they said it was a choppy ride and described the technique of throwing up in a small brown bag, twisting the end, and throwing it over board!... it was so bad that 5+ people were hugging brown paper bags in the first 5 minutes. Mind you, these were people who took sea-sickness pills too! It was a miracle that I didn't get sick too!



This doesn't even give justice to the swells that were well over 5 meters high!




We arrived at Milln Reef were we did our first dives with the instructor. The water was beyond choppy, the waves were slamming over our heads and the boat was being tossed left and right. We were like ragdolls on the surface, but once we went down, the water calmed down and it was so peaceful. I was pretty scared at first because the thought of a false breathing system under 10m of water is freaky but I did great!

We had one more dive that day in which we had to demonstrate all of our skills like clearing a mask that is full of water while you're still underwater... demonstrating neutral buoyancy... taking off our unit and then putting it back on... emergency surfacing in case you run out of air... borrowing your buddy's air unit...etc.




This is where we put our gear on in the front of the boat.






That night we played Taboo and hit the sheets early because our first dive in the morning was at 7:30am! I saw a sea turtle and a million of the fish that we had learned about in the lecture... performed all my skills with ease. One guy that was diving with us had some trouble because apparently he didn't equalize the pressure in his head very well on the way down and his nose started bleeding buckets into his mask! When we did the mask clear, bright green stuff came out and I thought he threw up! Well, when you're that deep, the color red is not visible thus, the green goo was really blood! Yikes! The guy was freaking out but the instructor was able to calm him down under water so he wouldn't have to surface.