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Koh Toa is a Dive!

And a rather good one at that! My friends, you can now refer to me as Dive Master D. Er, um, at least Open Water Certified D. Today I completed my 4-day dive traing to become a certified diver. Unfortunately, with my head still swimming my creative tank is just about empty. In fact, I was torn on whether I should post a rather boring entry or not to post at all. But since it has been a couple of days, I thought I'd better at least check in. You know if your tank is empty you don't just give up right? No, you take a deep breath and start for the surface, then you live to dive another day. And already I have begun to annoy myself, so I'm just going to get to it.

When I was a kid I had my share of interesting dreams. I think it's probably better for everyone that I don't share them, but I will share one. Many people dream of flying, but my super human dream was breathing underwater. In the dream I was able to press my lips together very tightly and filter the Oxegen out of the H20, allowing me to breath underwater. I mean it's not super human strength, or invisibility, but you gotta admit that is a pretty cool super human power. Well finally after 29 years I have made my dreams come true. Of course, I did have to change the procedure a little, but it all works the same in the end.

You would think after four days of dive training I would have loads of stories. Yeah, me too. But maybe what you wouldn't think is that half of the training is either in a classroom watching corny dive videos, or playing diver in the swimming pool. Which is why I had to make up some stupid story about a dream as a kid,(no I'm kidding the dream was real, and while not the most exciting story, trust me, it was better than describing the training videos. Which in dream terms would more fall into the bad -> nightmare category).

I have to tell you though swimming 60 feet under the surface with schools of fish swarming around you and 2 very large reef sharks swimming below is hard to top. Apparently you can go a good year without ever seeing a shark so it was a special treat. Probably not the smartest idea to flale around like mentally handicaped seal trying to get the attention of your diving buddies, but eventually I did get the attention of two other mates who spotted the shark. I also later saw the ever poisonous sea snake which wasn't quite as exciting but still pretty cool.

All in all an amazing experience. And now having typed and deleted three attempts at a clever closing. I am just going to say goodnight.

posted by Travelin' D @ 9:42 AM