From what I had heard of scuba diving it was a really fun and easy sport where you could swim in warm crystal blue water. I've heard so many travellers tell me how great it is. So when I signed up for a course that was what I was expecting.
In reality it was one of the heardest things I've ever done. Really early starts like 6am, and very late finishes were the norm 8pm being the latest. Yesterday for example we srtarted at 6am and worked straight through till midafternoon, having breakfast - breakfast! - at 4pm. You have to be able to cart around lots of heavy equipment, you have saltwater blasted into your face, you get seasick, you have to understand lots of difficult pressure calculations, ou have to get up really early, work really hard all day and then do a test at the end. Its all pretty exhausting.
I guess doing a scuba diving course on the edge of a hurricane is not such a good idea, as although we missed the worst of the storms we still got battered a bit by some large waves and wind, and the churned up sea meant there was lower visibility.
But at the end of the day I'm now a qualified open water scuba diver and can now dive anywhere in the world without an instructor, so that´s pretty cool.
We did get to see some amazing things. The sensations you get are cool, and the fact you can travel in all three dimenions is great. You feel a bit like you are flying and you can glide around and above and below other people. Visibility on the last few dives we did was amazing.
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