Soooooo...where do i start?! Get picked up by Cairns dive centre, pretty pumped and ready to go! Fill out heaps of paperwork, boring boring, watch some videos about the equipment, boring boring, rig up all the breathing equipment and stuff- all good. Have a 10 minute treading water test and 200 metre swim test- all good. Do some snorkelling with the mask thing on and fins...hmmmm "laura, u seem to have naturally boyant feet"...my feet kept floating to the top. Ok, so i don't have the hang of this! Oh well, its pretty fun. Get fitted with the huge cylinder of gas on my back...breathing through that tube is a bit weird- in and out of your mouth? whats that all about then?! So we go underwater with this thing on...and im like...ARGH BUBBLES...wait...its all up
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