Dive briefing

Day 16 - Diving is exhausting!!

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October 18th 2008
More pool skills in the morning and another open water dive in the afternoon. We had to do skills on the ocean floor for a while and then went off to explore. Today was even better (minus the shark!) as I wasn't desperately trying to remember everything all the time and could appreciate the fish. We saw a turtle quite happily swimming around, just like on Nemo!! It was fab!! We did our final tests ... read more

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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more