Back to Northern Ireland

Well back out of the sun and clear skies.

The diving in Malta was awesome, saw lots of fish and even an octopus. Octopus are just wierd, the way they move and change color, first time I've ever seen one up close and in the wild, (I've seen a few up close before but that was on my dinner plate :).

Now I want to keep up the diving but not really sure where to go the only place doing PSAI is in cookstown and I'm not driving all the way there when I want to go.. I suppose I could do PADI but it's expensive and there are so many courses I'm not sure if I could ever complete half of them.

There is a BSAC club in Ballyholme so I might give it a whirl, seems more like it would be up my alley. It's close and the costs are fixed per year I'll go down and see what the craic is.

PSAI Open Water Certified

W00t. I got certified I can now dive to 18m after 7 dive lessons, I think I managed to a get a few extra free lessons as the resort wasn't busy.
A few Pics :) thanks to the Dive instructor as my GoPro failed me. It's going back once I'm back in the UK.

Sneaky Dive

Wedding was in the afternoon yesterday (they both said "I do"), and I managed to squeeze a Morning dive lesson in before it all started. :)

Currently Diving in a 3mm Wetsuit and a 5mm shorty. Lots of weights to get me under.

Thinking about keeping this up when I get back to good old Norn Ireland, though I suspect the water won't be quite as nice.

Final (certification) dive tomorrow.

1st Dive Lesson

Turns out I like to dive..

Awesome First lesson.

We did a try dive in the AM to make sure I would like it and then once I'd done it I came back in the afternoon.

Had a choice of which Operation to go with decided on PSAI as it was cheaper than PADI and looked a bit harder, I like a challenge.

Lets go Diving.

Ok Decided to do it.
Flying out tomorrow and have booked SCUBA lessons with Abyss Diving in Malta. Have to admit I am a bit nervous.

To Dive or Not to Dive

We have a friends wedding in a few weeks, they are getting married in Malta so the missus and I are going out for a weeks holiday on the 21st to make the most of it.

The missus is a sun worshiper whereas I need to be doing something, I can't just sit about doing nothing. I've been following Linux Torvalds on Google+ and some of the SCUBA pictures he has been posting are awesome.. I don't really like swimming but perhaps SCUBA might be of interest.

One to ponder..