Breakfast consisted of fruit loops with better milk than the weird stuff at camp but still not great and some toast. A lecture at the CEA (Centro Ecologico Akumal) at 8am about reef ecology and then our beginner divers class in a hotel pool next door. At first the whole breathing under water thing was scary since it's not exactly normal, but after a bit you kind of get used to it. We had to learn how to get ourselves to go down and back up without swinging and also to balance in mid water and no go anywhere. More difficult than you may realise.
Lunch was a tuna sandwich and some chips and at 2.30 we had to be back at the dive centre for our first open water dive. You could say I was nervocited. (Nervous and excited if you didn't get that) We went on a boat to a barrier reef system outside of Akumal bay. We barrel rolled off the sides of the boat and took hold of a rope to wait for everyone. It was scary as the waves were hitting me in the face. As we started to descend I started to panic a little so took a couple minutes at the surface to calm down before continuing. My ears have a hard time equalising so the instructor Alex helped me with that and since we had an odd number of students Alex ended up being my buddy. Buddies are for in case of emergency. If your air stops working you can join onto your buddies tank. Once you are down at the bottom of the ocean and have gotten used to breathing via a tank it was actually very tranquil. We saw a ton of fish including Dory! The reef looked amazing.
A shower then some haddock, rice and veg for dinner. And just as last night. We sat on the beach for a while.
Toodles for now.
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