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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Diving Trip (Red Sea, Egypt)

The night before I was hanging out with my friends and they were asking me what my plans were while I was in Egypt. I told them all the plans I had and they asked me why diving wasn't on my list. I told them that I didn't have a license and that diving is too expensive of an activity for me. (Since I do so much traveling I really need to pick and choose different activities and I never thought of diving because of how expensive it can be). My friend told me to hold on a second while she made a phone call. She told me the price and her friends continued to tell me how great diving is. They told me that since I had never done it before that a dive master would be with me to make sure everything was ok and would actually hold my hand on the dive. I didn't have plans for the next day, so I made the spontaneous decision to do it. I decided at 9:30pm to go diving the day before. The next day, I got on the boat with all the others and I was actually the only one who had ZERO experience. The dive master gave me instructions in just 10 minutes and I didn't even get to practice on the equipment. He just told me that I needed to control my breathing and to make sure that I took care of the pressure in my ears. While I was putting the gear on I was starting to panic just a little bit, but I told myself that panicking would do me no good. So, I decided to just relax and the dive went very well. It was so strange to breathe underwater and depend on an oxygen tank. It was great. I got to see some Napoleon fish and I saw another moray eel. However, this time the eel was hiding in a rock. The second dive I got down to 8 meters. It was amazing! Such a great day and I am so thankful that I had the opportunity to try an activity that I thought I would never do.