Wednesday, December 28, 2005

Diving in KoLanta

Diving to Koh Hat, 5 islands! Dive and scuba refresher for 3800B, quite expensive, with Narime Diving. But they were very professional and had good gears! Our dive master, Ravy, had lots of patience especially with me! I had never expected this but I actually had a kind of panic attack under water, thinking that I would not be able to breath!!! I had all kinds of bad thoughts which made breathing even mor difficult! Fortunately Ravy knew how to deal with this, however I was still scared whiche annoyed me a lot. To sum up I did not enjoy the dive as much as I would have without panicking. Apart from this the visibility was only ok, we saw mooreys, cuttlefishes, rainbow fishes, barracudas, snappers, sea eals and stars etc. Unfortuantely no manta ray or turtle;-( On our second dive we dived into a cave, which was really cool! Diving approximately 15 meter down and then up the cave again!I was doing OK, Regina was fine all the time. No signs of anxiouty at all!

Full of nitrogen narcosis ;-) we arrived at Emeralds around 5.30pm, exhausted and redy to take it easy. Instead we had a great night with a bunch of scottish people, fish and seafood barbecue, beer and some other stuff. Long night!