I don´t seem to follow the trend...
I really never liked the water that much. Every time I went to the beach when I was little, I didn´t want to get into the water because it always felt so cold to me...
I can swim... but that doesn´t mean that I like swimming.
I love watching marine life though. I´ve always had aquariums since I was little. After college, I moved on to propagating soft coral in my saltwater aquarium.
It was my dad that "forced" me to try a resort course out here in Cozumel a year and a half ago. I really didn´t want to go, but heck, dad was goign to be there! Turns out, he chickened out and I went alone with the instructor.
Cold? You betcha!!! I only had my swimsuit and a t-shirt over it. Our dive was 70 min. They carried me out of the water because I was too cold to walk out (My fault entirely! The instructor kept asking if I was cold or not... I kept saying no! LOL) But that first resort course dive from shore, I saw 2 eagle rays, all sorts of little crabs, shrimp, big fish, small fish, starfish, rays etc.etc... I was HOOKED!!!
Of course, it took plus or minus 30 dives before I could actually backroll without someone giving me a shove. I still always feel the horror of hitting the cold water before backrolling. BUT, my love of diving and swimming among all the marine life, in another universe so different from the dry land that we live on... has overcome my dislike of being in cold water.
Then of course, I decided to take some time off and move and live in Cozumel for a while... So, now I am truely an obsessed diver... obsessively diving!!!
So, who is going to bring a drysuit down here to Cozumel for me???
Achu