Yeah Timmy, IMHO it is better to learn here, if you can dive well here in murky cold water, you can do it in warm crystal clear water.
Scariest experiences? Out of Air at about 15M in the Algarve, but my buddy was more scared, he thought he'd have to hold me up
Next one was being caught by a current and off a reef in the Red Sea (on my birthday) 4 of us daisy chained together all being held by one man, with a 2 finger hold on a coral
Then after surfacing, not being able to get back to the boat due to the waves being too high, they had to chuck a rope out to us and tow us to calmer water
took about an hour to get back into the boat, I was buggered. I'd watched Open Water the week before going on holiday.
Only shark experience was diving in the Shark tank at Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, whilst they are scary, I would guess that over 90% of all divers would like to see a shark. My number one holiday dream is to co to the Cape in South Africa and do the cage diving in the Great White feeding areas
Bloozoo, those shots look great.
Nicest experience, the last dive I was on, as we were doing a safety stop a HUGE turtle swam past, so I used the last 60 bar of air up following it
and got a right telling off for boarding the boat with a tank that was out of air
well I paid for it, I was using it. The turtle seemed to keep looking over it's shoulder at me and when I was lagging behind, it slowed down B)
Arfie
