Qualified Open Water Diver

yay, i did it…after overcoming some hard bits. was a struggle but i did it.

i think i said somehitng about not having to do the treading water or the swimming but the next day he made us do it…part of the course. i had to swim 200m in the sea which i thought would be fine but i almost killed myself. it was so hard. after 100m i was so out of breath it was ridiculous…i held on to the boat we had to swim to for abit. i thought our instructor might make me do it again but he didnt, it was cool. and then we had to tread water for 10mins which i thought would be mage hard but it was way easier.

then we did some more dives…i saw some fish like in finding nemo…made me smile. and i sorted out my bouyancy which was good. had a good dive after that.

then the last day…he told me i would have to take my mask off in deep water (12m) so i wouldnt be able to go up even if i felt i needed to coz could be well dangerous with pressure etc. i had worried about this all night but me and mark had come upo with a way which i could do it while holding my nose the qwhole time so hopefully i wouldnt snort any water. so that mornign we asked our dude if i could try in shallow first which he said was cool and i did the plan. it worked so i was waaaay happier about doing it. we then went for one dive to 12m and then came back and did the exam. was all good, 100%. and so he took us to a cenote (likecaves) to finish our dives and the course. there i would have to do the mask taking off. i wasnt as worried as i had done it in the shallow water but still didnt want to be too confident.

once at the cenote, in we went. there were loads of locals around and they just stood there watching us at first which was abit offputting. felt like we were the animals at the local zoo….whats he gonna make them do next lol. anyways, we decended and i did the mask thing and was fine. i was so happy after that. and qualified mark has the dive bug now, me not so much. he went diving today while i was just lazing on the beach in the sun. i think i will go diving again while we are here. but im still not too crazy about it. glad i did it though. am now slightly more confudent in the water generally.

it is nice to not have to read the book every night though. all we would do is dive all day, go back, eat, shower and read the book, and then fall asleep reading the book and then wake up and dive. i am happy just playing cards every night. and im guessing thats what we will do tonight as well right well better go shower. update again soon.

oh wait, forget to say about the spider last night. we got back and i was going to go in the shower while mark was on the net. however, before showering i was wondering around the room for about 10mins trying to kill all the ants which our food had attracted. whoops. and then i found a small spider near my bag on the wall. it kinda hid in the corner of the room so i left it figuring i could get mark to get it when he got back. mark then came back and i told him about the ants and he moved his hoodie on the back of one of the chair and a massive ass spider came running from behind it. i completely freaked coz it was MASSIVE…..and so i jumped onto the bed. proper girly reaction. i would not have been able to sleep with the spider still in the roomso asked mark to remove it. i didnt want him to kill it coz it was so big it would be messy but there was no way to just get it out of the room so he had to kill it. at first he tried getting it with his shoe but itwas so fast that he didnt get it. then it stopped and he had another chance and yay it was gone. thank god. i was pretty freaked that i had been in the room with it without knwoing it was there. eiw eiw eiw.

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