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Time for our second day of diving, we were woken up by the breeze, well I was – it was billowing through my sleeping sack and hitting my face in the most refreshing way, but not all all relaxing!
We headed back to Planet Dive where to start the day we were doing the basic fitness test, swimming 200m and treading water for ten minutes – it damn near killed me, not least because we were swimming over deep blue water and I didn't have a clue yet what was living in there (now I know and it's mainly all good), so imagining hungry Moray eels heading for my toes I did the best I could to doggy paddle/breast stroke my way to the buoy and back, well behind the others – Djalma saw that I was struggling on his return journey and slowed down to talk to me all the way back for which I was eternally grateful – at least then the eels would have more toes to chose from.
We got out of the water having caught the sun on the bits we hadn't applied sun cream to, we sat down on the terrace in the shade and were briefed on Confined Water 2 and quizzed on the first and second chapter of the book. Back into the salty Red Sea under the bright blue sky and under the water, we practised a long list of skills, going so slowly that we didn't finish until after 3p.m. I think it's safe to say that everyone's favourite skills was flooding and then removing their mask underwater, keeping it off for 30 seconds while remembering to breathe and above all not to PANIC!! Famished, we gratefully got out of the water and got fed, after falafel – we couldn't justify anything more expensive than a few bounds (L.E pounds), we went back to the centre and a lovely surprise. Instead of doing Confined Water 3, Matt had decided that we needed to know what we were doing all this for and so took us out for Open Water 1 which was amazing. We swan round, up and down (our buoyancy not being all too great) checking out all the fish and coral in Bannerfish Bay, right next to where we doing our training. We saw so many different fish including a Scorpion fish and so many different things just a few metres under the surface that it did a lot to make up for the difficult morning. Mind you I was still a bit sceptical that this course was for me, I still hadn't quite recovered from the mornings anxious swim.
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We walked back along the seafront to Matt's place, Saudi Arabia in the distance across the sea and the sun going down over the rooftops, it was gorgeous. We had bananas and watermelon for dinner, read Chapter 3 for homework and slept like babies.
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