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| Us with Carlos - Scuba instructor extraordinaire |
We finally graduated from our scuba course and are now officially "baby scuba fish" as the snarky Dutch teacher called us. The designation is officially "open water scuba certified". I have to say it was fun, with a few somewhat scary moments..........like when you have to take off your mask while deep underwater; count to 30, then put it back on.
Our teacher (Carlos from Madrid) was great, although somewhat of a cliche. If you've ever seen a movie where the hot wife runs off with the dive instructor, this is that dive instructor. Great accent......super good looking........and so sensitive and in touch with emotions that he cries at movies. We had him over for dinner and it became apparent that his dance card is generally quite full, so to speak.
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| Commando Kleman |
We descended to 18 meters (60 feet) and saw some cool fish and coral during the final dive. Then we practiced our rapid, airless ascent (this is for scuba-pocalype situations). Anyway, it's over and now we can scuba dive alone !!! Ahhhhhhh.
I'm trying to slow Kirstin down.......a mere 3 hours after "graduation" she was already planning our next 10 dives. I'm less of a hyperactive baby scuba fish and more of a geriatric scuba invalid. I dread each moment when you leave the water and the 60 lbs of gear really begins to weigh 60 lbs. Ugh.
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| Woo Hoo - Passed the last test! |
We have fallen in with a rough crowd down here. They drink excessively (albeit very cheaply) and then play rummy-cube. The only cruisers here in hurricane season are those that are retired and those that don't realize they should be working (us). Anyway, we're quite popular now and plan on perhaps going to a dive with our retiree friends at some point.
