Today dawned even better today than yesterday! We woke up early without even an alarm. Mark finished his homework while I tidied the room a bit. We were able to have a relaxed breakfast because we were there for longer than 10 minutes. Ali has gone to Male, so we have another waiter named Fazeel for a few days. 9:00 came and we were at the diving school. We discussed Chapters 3 and 4 from last night and took the quizzes on them. We checked all of our equipment, put on our wetsuits, and went to the beach. We only spent about 15 minutes underwater this morning. We practiced a few things to help us with our buoyancy, practiced an emergency ascent, took our equipment off and put it back on while underwater, and we practiced a bit with a compass. Next we went to the surface and practiced some rescue techniques for helping our buddy. We got out and washed our things again and went to the room to rinse off. By the time we got to lunch, my stomach wasn’t feeling too good, so I just had french fries for lunch. Mark had the grilled garlic prawns (shrimp) for lunch. Once I had some food in my stomach and a little bit of sprite I felt much better. We got back to the room, changed back into our swimsuits, and got back for our next dive.
This afternoon’s dive was great. Arnaud took our underwater camera for us and took a few pictures of us and of the sea life. We are going to rent the school’s camera tomorrow which will take digital pictures that we’ll have tomorrow night. We went down to 20 meters today – a little more than our 18 meter certification. There was some beautiful life down there. We saw a huge black eel and a white one too. There must have been 2 or 30,000 fish swimming around where we were. Every time a school passed, there were at least 200 fish. We can’t wait for our dive tomorrow morning! We are going to take the Nitrox tanks so we will have a bit more air so we can stay down a bit longer. We decided that since they had a wetsuit that fit me very well here that we would go on and purchase one. It’s really cute. After washing our equipment, we were supposed to watch the video of chapter 5, but someone already was using the dvd, so we’ll watch it tomorrow. We still have homework tonight of reading chapter 5 and doing the questions.
This afternoon’s dive was great. Arnaud took our underwater camera for us and took a few pictures of us and of the sea life. We are going to rent the school’s camera tomorrow which will take digital pictures that we’ll have tomorrow night. We went down to 20 meters today – a little more than our 18 meter certification. There was some beautiful life down there. We saw a huge black eel and a white one too. There must have been 2 or 30,000 fish swimming around where we were. Every time a school passed, there were at least 200 fish. We can’t wait for our dive tomorrow morning! We are going to take the Nitrox tanks so we will have a bit more air so we can stay down a bit longer. We decided that since they had a wetsuit that fit me very well here that we would go on and purchase one. It’s really cute. After washing our equipment, we were supposed to watch the video of chapter 5, but someone already was using the dvd, so we’ll watch it tomorrow. We still have homework tonight of reading chapter 5 and doing the questions.
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