Thought I'd warm you up with a few diving pics to make you jealous out there in the cold!!
I am totally stunned that it's been so long since I last updated the blog. Wow. Sorry about that everyone...I'll try and get my act together! Much has happened since I last let you sneak a peak into this crazy adventure we now call life.
First of all, we finished our divemaster course! YAY! It was an incredible learning experience that was so much fun. Coconut Tree is definitely one of the best things that has happened to either of us. The attention to safety, training and fun makes it the top-shop in my opinion. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone. The instructors here are fabulous times a thousand. Anyway, we did our course and survived our snorkel tests (barely). We had about a week to do some fun dives and rest a bit afterwards. During that time we had a few very interesting dives...
One of those dives happend to be the shark dive (with a different shop because ours doesn't do them)! Wow! What an experience. Being surrounded by eight or nine Caribbean Reef sharks is pretty cool. The problem was that the bad divers were more frightening than the sharks! There was an incredibly strong current so we had to use a descent line. It was SUCH a struggle to make it down. I have never experienced such a current in my life. Anyway, we made it down and almost immediately two people ran low on air. Without a divemaster to take them up (one was feeding the sharks...the other was videotaping) guess who took them up? Yup....
Anyway, the rest of the dive was great. We were supposed to crouch by a coral formation so that we wouldn't have the sharks behind us. Our group, however, was huge so there wasn't enough room. I, of course, was at the end so I was pushed into the open. There were a few very close encounters (sharks are extremely curious...or at least these ones were) but I had a great time.
On the ascent a lady let go of the line and was thrown into the blue with one fin. That part was frightening but Kevin swam out there and used all his might to bring her back to the line!! Awesome. Once we were back on the surface we boarded our tiny boat (all 16 of us) only to find out that the battery had died. So there we were, stuck in the open ocean with 16 people from a lesbian cruise (including a transvestite who "came along for the experience"), on a tiny boat with sharks circling below. At that moment my only thought was, "Good God..how will they explain this to my parents if I die?" Luckily, that didn't happen!!!
As of this Saturday past, we are in our instructor development course (IDC) and we are learning a TON. It is so informative and hands-on. I highly recommend anyone wanting to do the IDC to do it with Will at our shop. He is the best. It is such an organized and well-planned experience and he really knows what he's teaching. Anyway, so far so good on that. The Instructor Exam (IE) is a week from tomorrow (Nov. 25) and runs over two days. It involves open water, confined and knowledge presentations as well as a skill circuit and rescue demonstration.
So that's life on Roatan...I'm sure there are a million interesting stories I'm forgetting but it's almost 1 a.m. and my writing is starting to not make sense anymore!! Better get to bed. We miss you and love you all...
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