I just came back from diving trip. I would say it was pretty “successful”, considering that we had a good sighting of a manta ray at Tachai Island. This was beyond my expectation.
I have stopped expecting anything since my trip to Hin Muang/Hin Daeng/Tarutao early last year, where we have seen everything we ever hoped for. After diving with hope for many years, it all came true in just one trip. We have seen an eagle ray and a few manta rays on one dive, two whale sharks on the next dive. On other dives we also saw leopard sharks, turtles, octopus, etc.
The trip I just came back was different from other previous ones. We have a new member in the group. My friend, Kay, has just finish diving class and gone on her first trip. From seeing Kay diving, I have come to realise that diving is probably an acquired taste for a lot of people, including me. You probably have to “learn” to like it.
When diving, you have to do unnatural things, such as breathing through your mouth instead of your nose, talking with sign language, keeping balance in the low gravity environment, etc. I struggled a lot during my first dives/trips. Breathing was the biggest problem. I got so uncomfortable on the first dive after stop diving for a year (went to work in the US), that I almost could not dive down. My dive leader (and instructor), Kroo Kung, almost had to “hold my hands” as we descended to the sea below.
If it wasn’t for P’Puk and P’Ning, who came up with the idea about taking diving lessons in the first place, I might have quit it long time ago. Now I am doing Ok with diving, and think that I will go diving, as long as I am physically capable, and that I have someone to go on the trip with.
I think diving is a bit like driving. It is hard at first as there seem to be so many things to worry, but after a while it becomes automatic, you can do it even without thinking much.
6:30 p.m. - Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2004
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