SCUBA diving was the first activity that I chased as a personal passion. It was the first time I made a decision to excel in this field. I was only 12 years old when I went diving for the first time and the only reason I probably did it because my brother couldn't stop bragging that he had done it and I had not. Although everything changed after that first dive, after that first dive I came back up to surface and all I kept thinking about doing is going back down. I wanted to see more of this world, explore new things figure out what's out their. From that moment on I was determined to excel in the field of diving.
I keep going back in the ocean to dive because every time I dive, I see things that I am not used to seeing everyday. In other …show more content…
The only scope of vision you have is about a 4m circle that your flashlight creates and you point it into the black ocean at night. I couldn't see my own hand if I stuck it out in front of my face. It was the first time I experienced pitch darkness. I wouldn't have known if there was a great white sharks mouth open behind me until it actually took a bite out of me. The only reason I wasn't trembling in fear was because I was in a group of about 6 other people, which brought me comfort. Until, the dive master wanted to check our navigational skills, my dive instructor paired us up and gave us a heading to follow for 10m turn around and come back. Something you need to realize is, is that in a night dive 10m feels like a km. Me and my partner swam out to the heading we were given counting our kicks to get an idea of the distance we covered, we stopped looked at the angle in which we were heading and made a 180* turn. Once we completed the turn, we started to swim back in the direction we came from, but we messed up, it was so dark that we actually passed by our group and didn't realize and ended up overshooting. In the end we found our way around, but the fear of not knowing what's around you was overwhelming. The night dive to this day is prob the scariest dive I have ever been in.
Finally my passion for diving increased my love for biology. I learned about decompression sickness (when nitrogen bubbles form in your tissue), how give CPR, why pure oxygen is given if you suffer from decompression sickness and how the pressure of the water effects you internally. Some people find this part of becoming a diver taxing and boring, however for me it just increased my passion for both biology as a subject and diving as a
I keep going back in the ocean to dive because every time I dive, I see things that I am not used to seeing everyday. In other …show more content…
The only scope of vision you have is about a 4m circle that your flashlight creates and you point it into the black ocean at night. I couldn't see my own hand if I stuck it out in front of my face. It was the first time I experienced pitch darkness. I wouldn't have known if there was a great white sharks mouth open behind me until it actually took a bite out of me. The only reason I wasn't trembling in fear was because I was in a group of about 6 other people, which brought me comfort. Until, the dive master wanted to check our navigational skills, my dive instructor paired us up and gave us a heading to follow for 10m turn around and come back. Something you need to realize is, is that in a night dive 10m feels like a km. Me and my partner swam out to the heading we were given counting our kicks to get an idea of the distance we covered, we stopped looked at the angle in which we were heading and made a 180* turn. Once we completed the turn, we started to swim back in the direction we came from, but we messed up, it was so dark that we actually passed by our group and didn't realize and ended up overshooting. In the end we found our way around, but the fear of not knowing what's around you was overwhelming. The night dive to this day is prob the scariest dive I have ever been in.
Finally my passion for diving increased my love for biology. I learned about decompression sickness (when nitrogen bubbles form in your tissue), how give CPR, why pure oxygen is given if you suffer from decompression sickness and how the pressure of the water effects you internally. Some people find this part of becoming a diver taxing and boring, however for me it just increased my passion for both biology as a subject and diving as a