My first leap to becoming a SCUBA diver

This weekend was awesome! I started my life as a scuba diver bright and early Saturday morning around 5:45am with reading my scuba book. Yes, it was unnecessary to get up that early but I’m already in the habit of doing it for work. I headed down to the dive shop a little before 9. Once there I did some of the knowledge reviews aka PADI’s idea of a study guide and then met up with another student- Verena from Germany- who was just starting that morning to watch the videos. As all instructional videos are, they were informative yet cheesy. All knowledge reviews complete, it was time for review with our awesome instructor Mags- she’s from Canada so go ahead and be proud JuJu. She has the flag on her BCD, do they hand those things out up there or what? Anywho, review, quizzes, break for lunch. I was expecting more class but was happy to learn that I would be doing the first set of skills in the water! Yay for actually getting geared up and wet on day one. They say it in the book, and on the video and your instructor and anyone else who’s ever scuba dived will tell you that its both freaky and awesome the first time you breathe underwater. They’re all 100% right but that didn’t mean I was any more prepared for how it actually felt. Because of this, I know nothing I say could prepare any of you all so I’ll just skip the details, just know that it’s cool. I watched Good Luck Chuck and went to bed pretty early.

Sunday

I rose and shined with the sun, again getting in my reading before being at the dive shop at 9:30. Verena and I watched the last 2 instructional videos, before knocking out our review and quizzes early. I had a nice jog back to the apartment for lunch before walking back for my first real dive! A little out of order but it’s a shallow reef- only about 30 feet where we were and we worked on some of the skills before we swam out and looked at all the pretty fishies- not quite as good lookin as you Becks but they were a little more colorful :P. I’m definitely excited to finish my skills dive on Tuesday and get back in the action. After scuba diving, I had a burger and watched a little of the U17 world cup final- go Mexico! (still not sure who won).