This is me, yes, doing a toe touch. I couldn't resist. I also did multiple front and back flips. It was too easy and made the dive fun when we weren't seeing much marine life. Also, Brooks was diving underneath me at the time, which those are his bubbles coming up.
One of our favorite dives was where we got to swim with sharks. Don't worry, they weren't dangerous sharks. They just wanted to eat! Our dive masters brought chum in that plastic container and hung it from a rope while we all swam around them and watched. Eventually, our dive masters started catching some of the sharks and we got to hold and pet them. Their skin is really rough (almost like sand paper). It was so neat to feel them swim by us, lurking back and forth.
Brooks at the bottom of the Ocean, in between the coral. It was very important that we not touch the coral so we wouldn't risk killing it. I'm thinking Brooks was concentrating, making sure he didn't accidentally hit any of it.
This is Brooks and I at The Blue Hole. We dove 130ft down, the farthest depth we're certified to go to. It was VERY, VERY dark down there and not a lot to see except the walls of the cave that use to be there. This was Brooks' FAVORITE dive of all, and it was my scariest dive. I was glad we were only down there for 8 minutes. On our way up, we saw several bull sharks and one other kind of BIG shark. They were swimming over us, which was really neat, but also, made me feel like we were in a Jaws movie. We're so glad we did this dive to say that we've dived at The Blue Hole.
+006.jpg)
The four of us posing for a picture underwater. It only took 3 tries to get a shot without any of us breathing and having our bubbles coming out.


No comments:
Post a Comment