177 Days

So i got up fairly early and was back at the dive site to complete my Open Water Diver course with the militants from the day before. The sun was out and it was a good day to be in the water. We all got suited up fairly quickly and were in the water in minutes :)

We did all our drills in our first dive which takes about an hour. got out the water to change tanks and were back in the water a few minutes later to do a little bit of exploring on the wreck :) it was so epic! i saw my first sting ray, it was about half a metre long. Its such a peaceful creature.

With the open water course that I'm doing, you're not aloud to exceed 18m and at one point i checked my computer and it was 20.6m under - OOPS :p if Neil (my dive instructor) had found out i would of been in beeeeg shit, lol. nobody tell him. I sincerely hope he doesn't read this blog. haha

I found some clown fishies and the coral that it lives in (or what ever you call it), if you touch it they actually suck onto your fingers and the clown fish will slap you with there tails. haha, its such a cool feeling (o_0) we all traveled over the wreck and started coming up the other side.

Half way along the wreck it had a gaping hole from a bomb shell that must of hit it. We entered and swam through the hull. Throughout the dive a lot of fish swim up to you and check you out -they are very inquisitive creatures and i think its because most of them don't know what you are or have never seen divers before. So, as we were swimming through the hull i came across this bright yellow fish (15cm in length and 8cm in height) that came up pretty close. the lil bugga started biting me even though I'm like a thousand times bigger than he is! the more i tried to push him away, the more he'd came back for more! Strange lil thing he is.

One of the girls i was diving with had a under water camera, we got a little distracted taking photos of everything that we lost the other part of the group, lol. Neil was not very impressed! with her being in the army its a bit difficult to keep in contact with them :( I'd really like to have some of the photos we took so maybe i can post them on here. I'm going to try my best though, so we'll see what happens. but at the end of the day what an awesome experience and it was nice to hang out with people my own age again.