Boracay Diving Adventure
Quite possibly one of the coolest things I've done :)
After a morning of titas and titos fighting it out from indecision and uncertainty of what to do, the cousins and I took some initiative and decided to go scuba diving.
I asked the front desk in my broken Tagalog-English if they knew of a good place, and the lady promptly handed me a pamphlet and called the place for me. Even though it was raining, we were in luck! Open for business :)
My 4 cousins and I (ages 22, 22, 20, 14, and 14) were the only ones going on the actual adventure, which we were promptly reminded of by our parentals who were so worried for our safety that they were trying to decide between them who would have to face their fears of drowning and claustrophobia to join us. In the end, we were able to convince them that we would be totally okay.
After a corny 20 minute video about diving safety, our lead instructor Ben, a short muscular man with an awesome gold hoop earring, talked us through our lesson and what we would be doing. He's been teaching for 16 years, he told us, and you could tell he love his job.
And into the water we went! (Just shallow water at first for the training) Getting used to the equipment wasn't too difficult, the only thing was that I couldn't get my body to stay still at the bottom of the ocean, and it turned out that if the body suit was retaining air, you would float...I know, super duh, but it made a huge difference!
Then, into the open ocean! We took a motor boat out to a spot off shore (the beach was within seeing distance, but people were too small to distinguish. We flipped backwards into the water, our guides let us know when to put on our masks, and we slowly descended into the water.
Rules of diving:
1. Never hold your breath
2. Equalize your eardrums to increasing pressure as often as possible
and there were a bunch more, but these were basically what we needed to remember...
We saw lots of coral and wild fishies, and swam from place to place with the help of our guides. Probably the weirdest thing about diving was that you weren't able to make sounds or talk to each other, and there were so many times that I wanted to laugh and point out to my cousins why I was laughing...but no good haha.
Ben took pictures of us along the way, and afterwards told us that we had gone 10 meters below sea level. The experience was amazing, so easy to use the equipment and with the guides we were able to really enjoy what we were seeing. Such a great way to spend a rainy afternoon :)
After a morning of titas and titos fighting it out from indecision and uncertainty of what to do, the cousins and I took some initiative and decided to go scuba diving.
I asked the front desk in my broken Tagalog-English if they knew of a good place, and the lady promptly handed me a pamphlet and called the place for me. Even though it was raining, we were in luck! Open for business :)
My 4 cousins and I (ages 22, 22, 20, 14, and 14) were the only ones going on the actual adventure, which we were promptly reminded of by our parentals who were so worried for our safety that they were trying to decide between them who would have to face their fears of drowning and claustrophobia to join us. In the end, we were able to convince them that we would be totally okay.
After a corny 20 minute video about diving safety, our lead instructor Ben, a short muscular man with an awesome gold hoop earring, talked us through our lesson and what we would be doing. He's been teaching for 16 years, he told us, and you could tell he love his job.
And into the water we went! (Just shallow water at first for the training) Getting used to the equipment wasn't too difficult, the only thing was that I couldn't get my body to stay still at the bottom of the ocean, and it turned out that if the body suit was retaining air, you would float...I know, super duh, but it made a huge difference!
Then, into the open ocean! We took a motor boat out to a spot off shore (the beach was within seeing distance, but people were too small to distinguish. We flipped backwards into the water, our guides let us know when to put on our masks, and we slowly descended into the water.
Rules of diving:
1. Never hold your breath
2. Equalize your eardrums to increasing pressure as often as possible
and there were a bunch more, but these were basically what we needed to remember...
We saw lots of coral and wild fishies, and swam from place to place with the help of our guides. Probably the weirdest thing about diving was that you weren't able to make sounds or talk to each other, and there were so many times that I wanted to laugh and point out to my cousins why I was laughing...but no good haha.
Ben took pictures of us along the way, and afterwards told us that we had gone 10 meters below sea level. The experience was amazing, so easy to use the equipment and with the guides we were able to really enjoy what we were seeing. Such a great way to spend a rainy afternoon :)
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