"Under the sea, under the sea. Down where it's wetter, that's where its better, take it from me..." OH MY GOD! I have just had THE most amazing, exciting, thrilling, nerve wracking, adrenaline filled 5 days and am now a certified open water diver :) The first 2 days were spent in at the training centre with half the day in the classroom learning all the theory and finding out how easy it was to die if we mucked up!The remainder was spent in the 4m deep pool getting used to using the equipment and doing skills like removing, replacing and clearing our masks, sharing air with our 'buddy'and descending and ascending slowly as well as getting used to equalising our ears as we descended(we resembled prunes by the end of both days!). There were
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