Night Diving!

Up at 6:45, I slept like a baby. Still have a sore throat and cough. Got to Scuba Junction about 8:00, got on the truck to the pier and got on the boat. Annette is feeling much better today. We went to our first dive site and visibility was decent, and we got our deep dive done. We went down to 30 metres, and Annette showed us the effect of pressure on a bottle of air (the air compressed and the bottle is squished), and she was also testing us for nitrogen narcosis, which is a state caused by deep diving where you act stoned and drunk. Simply ascending in the water causes it to dissappear. Anna failed...Annette had her try to do a simple math subtraction, and she couldn't figure it out. She had lost all ability to reason and think clearly. I passed my test.

We finished our deep dive and then motored to the second dive site, where we didn't do a dive, because it wasn't included in our course, so we just lounged on the boat while the other group did their dive.

Back to land bout 1:00, had lunch, I used internet, everyone just kind of did their own thing, then back to Scuba Junction at 4:45. We watched the Night Dive video, went over the night dive knowledge review, then headed to the boat about 6:15 and went to our dive site, got geared up and did our dive.

Night dive was kind of scary, because you can't see that much. I was quite anxious and had a little stress doing it. We saw some fish, phosforesence (sp?), etc. I was kind of disappointed, I think maybe I was expecting too much, though.

Finished our night dive about 8:30, then back to Scuba Junction, got everything sorted out, and got our Advanced Open Water temporary certificate. We are now certified Advanced Open Water divers, and can dive to a maximum depth of 30 metres and do night dives!

We had suppper, showered, then went to In Touch bar, who was having a dance party, to celebrate our Advanced Open Water certification. Uta and I left the bar about 2:30.

Full-moon Party Stories:
On the boat from Koh Pha Ngan to Koh Tao, we met an Aussie guy, Tim, who was staying on Koh Tao, and had taken the "party boat" from Koh Tao to Koh Pha Ngan the night of the full-moon party, and was going to catch the return trip back the following morning. He missed that boat. He was so screwed up, he ended up sleeping on the beach for two nights before he could finally make his way back to Koh Tao and find his friends. He didn't have anything with him on the boat, just himself and a pin-on tiger tail (?). It was quite funny.

At the bungalows we were staying at on Koh Pha Ngan, there was a group of four girls staying in another bungalow, and they went out to the full-moon party. We were talking to one of the girls the next day, she was quite upset, one of them had dissappeared the night of the party, and still wasn't back my mid-afternoon the following day. The last time anyone had seen her was 11:00PM the night before. Well, she returned back to the bungalows in the early evening, and the girls got in a big fight, because they were so worried about her, and they didn't know where she was. One of the girls walked by us, tears streaming down her face, and she said to us "She's back." The whole resort could here them screaming at her, they were so pissed off with her.