I sl ept awesome last nigh t, unt il about 8:30. Court up early. She went for br eak fast, whi le I slept, then I did breakfast, and we walked to Rain bow about 9:30. Martin and Luis ar ealso in th e course wi th us. T hey were late, so w e had to w ait, the y finaly arriv ed about 10:20, so about 10:30, we watched video's for 3 hours, th en met our instru ctor (G rant), then were at the pool at 1:00.
I t was awesome. The w hole experience of breathing underwater was amazing. The pool is shallow, only 2 m etres, so i t's hard to get a good feeling. T he Open Water certification will allow us to go down 18 m etres. We speng about 4 h ours in the pool, learning all ab out bouyancy, pressure, the equipment, learning t o adapt to the underwater env ir onment (breathing, moving around, sound and hearing, et c.) and practisi ng what to do if things g o wrong (losing regulator, helping or getting h elp from your buddy, mask issues, etc.), using the BDC (B ouyancy Cont rol D evi ce) t o ascend and d escent. I t was fun. Court was scare d at th e beginning , and sh e's nervous about goign o ut o n the boat tomorrow. We went through lots a nd lo ts of exercises with the i n s tru ct or. Tomorrow, as I said, we go o ut i n the boat, and do som e more exer cising , bu t in the ocean this time. Ri ght after the pool (about 5:00), we all went for supper, as we hadn't eaten sin c e morning .
AFter supper, I hit the intern et .
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