AfterDark
Contributor
I was 15 in the best shape I’ve ever been in. I had been solo snorkeling for a few years and was just as much at home in the water as on land. I told the instructor I could swim circles around him and I did! The hardest part of learning to dive was all the classroom work back then. In the pool and later in the ocean I was in my element. The only time I got a little nervous was when we did the harassment phase where the instructors pulled off our gear while we were in the pool. This isn’t done anymore.
I so looked forward to learning to dive that I would have jumped into a school of sharks if that’s what it took!
I so looked forward to learning to dive that I would have jumped into a school of sharks if that’s what it took!