After my few days of sailing around the lovely Whitsundays I headed North again and caught the ferry to Magnetic Island, where I would spend a week. After catching up with Kaitlin (Canadian I had been travelling with) and Kim who we had both met on our Fraser Island tour I spent the next four days with my head buried in my dive book! The first day of the Open Water Dive Course run by SSI was spent mainly watching the DVD which talked to us about the safety and risks that went with learning to dive. The video's took up most of the day, however, once we had watched chapters 1, 2, and 3 we had a break and then the fun began!! Our first pool session begun with fitting everyone with the right size
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