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July 19, 2005
SCUBA TUESDAY!
Well. today was the day for the Bond girl, Stephanie, to learn a bit of scuba diving!
There was a special course for 10 to 12 year olds and 5 girls and 6 boys had signed up.
They split the kids up into two groups and the boys went and did the snorkelling first and the girls did the scuba part first.
They learned some of the basics--how to use the P.F.D.'s Personal Floatation Devices, and get all the air out in order to descend, and then they learned about the regulators and how to breathe with them. The next step was to put on all the equipment and swim around the shallow end and then after a brief regroup, they all went into THE BLUE! Down they descended into the 12ft deep end and swam around there and then up again.
After Steph had done the scuba part then they went and did the snorkel part. They had to retrieve stuff off the bottom, clear their masks and all the usual snorkel stuff.
She came out of the change rooms after and said to Roy and me "It's just so exciting! I'm not nervous now that I know all the parts and what to do! I really want to learn more! When can we have another family reunion!"
Looks like we'll have to save up for a couple of years and go on another Caribbean trip, or even Mexico--the water there is very clear to and both Guin and I went scuba diving there. It's also fairly cheap in comparison to other place.
We went to the Chip Box after to reinforce the carb loss!!
That was the main part of our dayt!
Hope you enjoy the post!
Love Mom, Carol. etc xoxoxo :-)
Posted by Cas at July 19, 2005 5:54 PM
Comments
That's awesome she got to learn some diving! 
I'm definitely up for a trip to Mexico. I was just thinking about that earlier today! 
Posted by: Guinevere at July 24, 2005 8:51 PM