OMG ! i hereby proclaim 21 Feb as the most fun day this month ! Diving is fun ! haha ... even though it's just a swimming pool practical lesson ...
Started by gearing up for the pool ... wet suit, buoyancy control, air tank etc etc... And after the preparations, its time to head for the pool ! First up : we learnt how to breathe thru the 2nd stage( which is the thing you put in your mouth to supply air ... ) Seems easy when u look at others but its actuall rather scary at first ... just not used to the idea of breathing underwater ... and countary to wat i thought, its actually more difficult to exhale then inhale ... Air seems to fill into the lungs faster then I could exhale ... Seems that the others had the same exprience too so its quite normal ...
We learnt how to purge air underwater n look for 2nd stage in case it gets lost ... Also learnt to clear the mask of water ... Well, its quite easy actually but the main thing was to stay calm ... breathe properly ... in the open sea, you're in trouble the moment you panic...
Then we finally put on the flippers ! fun man !! we swam ard the pool afew times to get used to the fins ... that has to be the longest lap i've ever done without surfacing ! The breathing problem we had earlier also disappeared while swimming ... the only prob was we're still unable to control our direction very well ... when not swimming , we looked like a flock of ducks waddling in the water ... Our flippers made it difficult to move forward.. so to get from point A to point B, we either had to swim or shuffle sideways/backwards ... but most of us simply waddled forwards ... thus the scene from Old Macdonald's farm ...
After that its was time to clear up ... kept and washed the equipment, showered and i went supper with andy at simpang ... Been very very long since we last had supper together ... well ... time flew and soon enoughi was homeward bound ... looking forward to the next lesson .. and even more so, the trip to pulau tinggi next month !