Scuba Update

Toni & I are a third of the way through our Scuba certificate now. After a few classes, last night we had our first confined-pool dive. it was really, really cool.

There’s nothing like it to be honest, just fishin’ around breathing underwater.

There was a lot of exercises we had to go through, like changing your breathing source while underwater to another person’s secondary breathing source. Teaching yourself not to hold you breath, ’cause your lungs can rupture if your depth changes. Clearing water from the airpiece and your mask while underwater, plus a swimming and water-treading test.

It was quite cool though, how quickly we got used to the whole thing really.

We’ve got 1 more classroom theory lesson, a knowledge exam, 1 more confined-pool lesson, and then 2 open-water dives before we become qualified PADI Scuba Divers, and then we can go on our honeymoon to the Caribbean and dive in the reefs by ourselves if we like!