Friday, May 18, 2012

Wednesday May 16: 1st dive



Today I went on my first dive as a certified diver. On the first dive we went to the same site as my certification dive but this time I saw a shark in a small coral cave. The second dive was called turtle town and it was close to shore, only 40 feet deep. On the second dive I swam into a cave with a shark and a turtle. I did this in three caves and on the last one there was an air breathing cave. This is an area above the main flooded cave, full of air. The reason there is air is because the surrounding rock is lava rock, which is porous. We surfaced in this with our flashlights and took out our regulators and were talking for a few minutes, and there was a four foot white tipped reef shark below us the whole time. When we left the cave we swam back to the boat, which I got to drive back to the boat launch, and then we went back to the condo. For the rest of the day we were at the pool.

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