November 22, 2008

Lesson 1: Take only pictures...leave only bubbles


My friend Jessie came to visit from LA and joined
us for a dive.

A couple quick lessons before exploring the bottom.
I broke lesson 1 on my last dive. The seas were incredibly rough and I may have left some nacho cheese Doritos for the fish. Nevertheless, I still passed and I'm now officially a certified open-water diver. Woo-hoo!

I could only understand about every eighth word Alfredo, our crazy Peruvian instructor, said. Fortunately, he wasn't really into classroom teaching and preferred to just go for it. For our last couple dives we told him we wanted to see sharks, so that's what we got. Not only did Alfredo guide us to a pack of bull sharks, but he tapped his tank with a rock to draw them in closer and then swam after them trying to hit their fins. This type of shark is more deadly than great whites...normal.

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