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Published: October 29th 2009
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Day 7
05:45
An early one this morning, damn them bloody scooters!! Lol
Lukily I went to bed about 22:45 so I got a fair few hours kip as there was no party outside my room all night :o)
Yesterday was pretty packed with the course, had morning of theory with a test at the end, it's not too strict like school or owt, Caroline and I even managed to compare answers and changed one each, we make a good team! Becky is starting to get on my nerves a bit, reminds me too much of a girl o knew back at home, constantly complains, never happy, thinks the world owes her something. I'm hoping she gets eaten by a shark on our open water dive tee hee.
Got chatting to an instructor after the classroom sesh, he saw 3 bull sharks out on a dive yesterday. The second most dangerous you can find apparenty, I'm excited!! Love to see a whale shark too, they're veggies tho and soo beautiful, they saw a few earlier in the year here.
The afternoon session was in the pool, first time I'd tried breathing underwater...it's so weird but you quickly get used to it.
Mainly safety drills and procedure, I'm buddied up with a French guy who has joined our group, seems competant enough so I should be ok diving with him in the ocean although I'd like to get to know him more, but he doesn't hang around with our group. Another new arrival joining us is Meesha, a dreadlocked freethinker from Germany, she's interesting to talk to and a friendy character, spent alot of time in india so finds Thailand a little expensive. Backpackers get annoyed at paying more that a quid for a decent meal. I guess I'd be like that if I only had a few hundred euros to last another few months. Feel so very lucky having so much money from the redundancy, I really did have it good at bae, great colleagues, fantastic qualifications, easy going attitude and when I was ready to move on they were even kind enough to give me redundo money to fund my trip! Life is goooood.
Got some more theory to come this morning and then we go out for our first open water dive, 6-7 meters I think he said, so quite a way down if you think about it :os
I'm a little anxious but excited too, this will hopefully cure the fears i get of what's going on down there when I'm swimming out on the surface. Gonna be alot of that to come on the boat in jan, a month where the only washing is a jump into the Andaman sea. The sun has just risen and im writing this on the beach (see photos). it's time for breakfast, think I'll try Thai style today, rice with chicken and a cup of tea. The American and continantal style with eggs and tiny bits of bacon haven't yet filled me up.
21:30
Been such an amazing afternoon I just can't explain to you all what the diving experience is like, for me it was absolutely mindblowing, and I'm glad to have done it in such a place as this. Please please if you read this, DO IT!! You 100% won't regret it. Well that's enough of preaching, of course maybe 1 or 2 will find any reason to complain about it but for those people (or the ones here)..... You shouldn't be here, stay in bed your whole life and stop complaining grrr.
So I'm absolutely shattered now,
got a final exam tomoz although the instructor we've got told us it will be the easiest we've ever seen, I doubt it, I've been to hull college afterall ;o) btw the instructor is soo much fun, she's called G but says I can call her g string..... She also says weve got to dress up on our final dive and bring props as there is an underwater video! I'm thinking maybe going as a party animal like making a ghetto blaster out of an old carton or something, well see how that goes tho. 2 more dives to look forward to tomoz aft. Time for bed I think, a beer seemed to help me get off last night so I'm drinking one at the bar which is over the shoreline of course :o) made a new pal in the shape of a raggedy old pooch, she obviously is a stray but always seems to be around the resort, kinda takes the edge off missing my dog cassie whom I've left at home :'-(
I'll take a pic for you. Hope your all well back home and i bid you good night.
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Bry McCloud
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PADI
HI Nick, I did a PADI course, quite a number of years ago, but my open water dive was in a murky quarry somewhere near Nottingham. Enjoy!!!!!