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Thankyou so much for your reply jacqui!![sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
I am even MORE excited now!!!![sm=1syellow1.gif][sm=1syellow1.gif][sm=1syellow1.gif]
Your lagoon in Mexico sounds fantastic!!! i would love to go to mexico, combined with a trip to Peru and Macchu Pichu!(think I spelt that wrong!!!!) I must have been amazing to snorkle there. I went snorkelling on the Great Barrier Reef lots when I was in Australia a couple of years ago and it really was the most amazing experience!! It is such a magical place under the waves isn't it!! As you say, another world! Since i was a child I have always had a really romantic image of Atlantis - a magical lost world under the water. It's only in later years that I've realised that the seabed is exactly that - a magical lost world, mostly unexplored and unseen by the human eye and constantly changing![sm=nature-smiley-008.gif]
I'm a Pisces and to be frank I think I should have been born with a mermaid tail!!!:D
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LOL, another possible Pisces would be the pop singer, Katie (surname?) - did you read or see the news? Last night she and her band performed a whole concert 1,000 feet underwater, :Dat the base of one of the four legs of a North Sea gas derrick. The audience were the workers on it. No, they didn't wear masks. :DIt was a dry environment. She'll be in the Guinness Book of Records. 🙂
She's probably well-known but I don't recall surname. Begins with M?
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I did the initial PADI Diving instruction in Cyprus this year and am keen to continue.
As I understand it, you can do the basic training in the UK, but to be able to dive to 40ft, you need to do an Open Sea Course which can only be done overseas. This allows you to dive with an instructor to a depth of 40ft. You can then continue the training to 80ft, which allows you to dive without an instructor.
There wasn't much to see in Cyprus - the Eastern Med is pretty sterile, but did some fabulous snorkelling in Mexico last year.
Lesley
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Hi Jaime
I am glad that you are excited, I am excited for your too:D. Infact I talked to my husband today about taking it up again, he is a diver too, but he is not too keen in this country.....too cold! Your post got me all excited about starting again.
Your trip to Australia sounded fantastic. Before I die, to dive the Great Barrier Reef is on my 'to do' list, and I will do it! It is so hard to explain to someone what it is like down there. It is so magical. I love it when you go back to a place the next day and see different things, it is never the same. I always joke that when I go on holiday, I will come back tanned only on one side.....my back, as I spend so much time snorkelling!
I am a Pisces too! I should have been born with webbed feet and hands. I love anything to do with the water. I used to live in Devon, and someone I worked with tried to teach me to surf, to no avail! I am hopeless at balancing. I could just about kneel on the board, but that was it! He was fantastic at it, he used to enter competitions all over the world. The same with windsurfing, I could get upright, but promptly fell over the other side! We used to have sports afternoons on a Wednesday down at Croyde Bay, which was lovely.
I did some diving in Gibraltar, when I lived there, but tended to sail yatchs more there. I joined the diving club there, and they had a rather unusual way of playing chess at the club. Two teams of perhaps 7 or more people each would play a game of chess. One person from each team would sit at the board. The pieces for the game would be sherry glasses filled with a short chosen by the opposite team, usually gin or whisky. The team would decide which pieces would be moved, and the idea of the game was to lose, because if you took a piece, you had to drink the contents of the glass! I had never seen this game played before.....you guessed it......I ended up very drunk! I still to this day don't know how I go back to where I lived. So be warned if you join a dive club, they can have some rather dubious games they play!
You must write and tell us all about it when you get back!
With love
Jacquie [sm=love-smiley-009.gif]
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Hi Lesley
I did a dive to 30m at Stoney Cove in Leicester, quite a long time ago. I don't know why you have to go overseas to do the Open Sea Course, I did mine in Scotland in February and there was ice on the sea!!! I jest not. I thought the instructor was joking when he said we would go ahead and do it. We were the only ones daft enough to be out on the beach. This was back in 1985, so things might have changed since then. I wason a diving expedition with the club I belonged to.
I am sure my brother in law did all his courses in the UK; he is a professional diver working on the rigs. He only qualified a few years ago. I think I would prefer to qualify in a much warmer climate though, given the choice.:D
Glad you liked Mexico.
David....I am impressed that you can hold your breath for 3 minutes! Wow! I can only manage about a minute and a half, and that is if I am distracted and not clock watching. I really don't know why you get the awful pain, I can't explain it.I think as we get older we can't do what we used to be able to do. I do hope that you don't take that the wrong way.:) I would advise staying at a depth thatyou are comfortable with. Perhaps someone else can help answer that question. You would have to try scuba diving and see if it has the same effect. It might not, if you are not holding your breath, but breathing instead. If you get the same pain, then don't go any further. Sorry I can't help you any further there.
With love
Jacquie [sm=love-smiley-009.gif]