So after all the worry, i took the plunge. My instructor was really lovely and she was from Singapore- her 1st language was English, although trust me you would not have believed it. Anyway she ran through a few basic procedures with me and took me in the water, we went under, not very deep- 2metres or so, and i tried out the procedures, after though i made her come back up with me as i wanted to cough and got a bit panicky- needless to say i didint realise i could cough in my regulator(the mouth peice). SO after that stupid fret, we took our first dive- i went 6 metres on my 1st dive(only allowed 12m if you havnt done a paddy) and i loved it! there wasnt a huge amount of fish as
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