Feeling Weightless With All This Weight
The least comfortable part of diving is gearing up for the dive, adding a full body dive skin, dive hood, full wet suit, boots, weight belt, buoyancy compensator vest, scuba tank, respirator, mask, fins, dive computer, and other optional accessories like a pointing stick, camera, and flashlight. So cumbersome and heavy, but it all becomes weightless as soon as you hit the water, and you just flow, free to observe and follow interesting life forms that pass by.
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 
