Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Night Dive


The thought of being in the sea at night gives me the creeps, but when I got into the warm water I became so excited just to know what will be down there. In a while I became much calmer and safer as I had 2 instructors, a dive master and 3 other divers with me in the dive. We swam off shore from Namaa Bay it was so dark that our torches light barely lit up in front of us.

During our dive we spotted lots of weird fish that I never saw before in day light dives, then we swam up to the main coral reef in the bay, we saw another group of divers we waved hi to them, we also made scary faces with the light, stayed for a bit then we took off. A while later we sat on the bottom in a circle, our instructor guided us to turn off the light and to wave our hands through the water, we suddenly saw small glowing stars, it was something we’ve never seen before, a magnificent feeling ever. But we had to turn on our lights and move back to shore as we lost 3 of our team members, we started to look for them for about 2 minutes, my instructor and I were the only ones left so we had to ascent to look for the other 2.

My instructor said in a funny way”very weird losing an instructor, a dive master in a dive never happened to me before”. We yelled their names while we swam till shore until we found them, they had joined the other group of divers in the dark thinking they were us. As a rule in diving you have to stick to your buddy underwater till the end of the dive. It was an experience that gave me a wonderful feeling and I’m sure I can do it over and over again.

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