Omar Samad

Day1

06:58 Just took a nice shit and shower gonna eat soon, kinda nervous about what is to come its day 1 of the dive course. didnt sleep much only about 6h which is only thing that worries me a bit. so now im all packed up and ready to go.

21:40 Well it went a lot smoother than I thought, everything was so well organized and the whole breathing under water, flooding the mask with water and clearing it was a snap, and it was so much fun! The training and all the skills we learned put me at ease cuz i didnt understand how u did some things and excited me even more, emergency breathing techniques and all that stuff. My mind is fuzzy now just spent the last 2 hours studying that book. more 2morrow.

Day 2

• get alarm clock
• rash vest
• towel

23:10 Ok i Fuckin passed!!! was easier than i thought, 96% wasnt sure about getting all the gear or not unless I actually passed the course, but I did !!now just have to lug it around the world But man I dont care .. im gonna be entrusting my life to technology to take me below the sea, so im gonna get the best you can regardless. IM SO EXCITED!!!! hehehehe 2morrow morning we are off to sea something ive dreamed about for evar !! gonna pack up and rest.

oh yeah just before when I was walkin home from the restaurant, I heard Table Tennis.. omg , and it was a round robin night!! how could a warrior resist sharpening his sword!! some excellent players there, I eventually leveled off with this older man and we did drills and played a match he beat me, 11/9, 14/12, 11/5, 11/9 it was close, but it was his day, i was happy regardless We played till 22:30 when the club closed last 2 to leave!!!

Day 3 – Set Sail

09:26 So just woke up from a power nap, and we’re on the boat!! only I am way to excited to get on here hehehe just got my mask all cleaned up n shit, all my gear out fuk yea! The view is just incredible I still cant get over im gonna go top deck for a bit to see more of it, and maybe take a seat with the captain for a bit.

12:41 -FIRST DIVE!! wowowowowoowoowowowowowowowowowowowowo!!!!! hehehe, i was just floating upside down looking at everything, it was incredible, this big fish, (bigger than my head) was like less than 10cm away from my face! looking right at me. my mask fogged up and i had to clear it up a couple of times, which was annoying but i felt comfortable doing it so it wasnt too bad. gonna go eat ttyl!

Day 4

14:10 PADI CERTIFIED — Now offically licensed to be an open water diver!! so a few more skills dives we did, i think 2 more, where they check all the skills we learn, again and again, which is great .. really makes evreyone feel comfortable and safe . Im not sure about my partner Hannah, shes racing through everything like way too fast, i mean if it was a race.. id be number1 regardless, but this is different for me slowing down and enjoying the enviorment is what gets me off, i still cant belive how amazing it is here.

16:49 First Free Dive — un fucking believable .. the great barrier reef is the most amazing place on this planet, I had no idea such a marvelous place existed, and to be there in the water .. Stringing words together like this is no justice to how beautifull the natural earth is down there. I switched partners at this point, I couldnt stand being with Hannah anymore she was on a rush to maybe try and impress the coach, or whatever, i dont care, Im really glad that I could swap and be with Andrew, I really like this guy, even when I was staying close to him during the training dives, hes on the same tracsk as me, being safe as the number1 caution checking out the meters regularly and saying OK everytime we look at each other .. which is like couple times each min!!! heheh it makes me laugh now cuz its like an exaggeratted effort but.. it just makes everything feel so much safer and then more fun.
The coral .. the fish .. I can’t belive the kinds of fish there, and OMG we saw 2 giant sea turtles !!!!! and a shark!! white tip reef shark, it was about 4m away, but what a beautifull creature, so smooth and slick, and also I wasnt scared at all in seeing him. k (night dive briefing time)

21:58 Night Dive — Ok just got back from the night dive there was a full moon out tonite!!!.. wowowowoowoowow, feels great, there wasnt so much activity as in the wild life down there, but the ones that were out were incredible, our coach Dave pointed out a fish that blows a bubble of mucous around its self for protection .. looking at it, was just amazing.. he says that he dives there lots of times, and sees new things all the time. The whole experience of night time diving is unbelievable .. the calm serene waters, and wow saw a shark, aswell this was a baby only about 3m in lenght, but sooo pretty!! Regardless of all the fish and everything, my favourite part of that night dive was when we came up to a small gully in the coral, where the full moon jus shone right down into, and light the gully up, I found my own space away from ppl and i would just hover upside down watching my bubbles float up to the moon, just floating .. same position.. im so controlled and good at breathing and floating , and swimming now this stuff is a breeze and again being with Andrew as a buddie makes the whole experience that much better. comparted to how i felt on the first dive with Hannah, having her rush off like that. heh well Desert time Mathais is an amazing cook as much as he is in person, really spoiling us i think its a chocolate cake if not mistaken!!

11:44 All Good Things; nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo we started our ascent back into the land now =/ what an amazing experience im still at a loss for words when I try to think about it, I hope my pictures help paint the picture. More than just the dives the social part of talkin with group,, instructors and other divers from around the world was fantastic, so many beautifull people ive met here everybody was just so amazing to be around and it does look like theres some life long friends ive made here, just hanging out on the deck, eating , waiting for the next dive, just incredible. its just the start of a new love for me, and im feeling that totally giddy thing about it. hehehe oh btw, I did the adventure diver course while I was here so I could goto a depth of 40m now!! great for those wreck diving, and eventually check out the elora corey.!! and I started my thing on photography!!

Again only pictures will be able to help here, there was literally walls, that were 10m of coral, which connected and made caves and small passageways for exploration, they were just un real, Completely different plaent, I remember just standing at the bottom of it, and looking up, lol next thing i knew i was at 21m at depth oh no!!! i said to myself no more than 10-12m so I can make my air last longer!! hehe but im so glad I went there, it was incredible, and even so was a different planet, theres fish that we saw on our 30m deep dive that only live at that level, the lion fish.. what a beautifull fish, google it!!!

I had a camera with me so I was snapping away as much as I could, I actually went to 21m cuz of it so burned air faster, only was down there for 27min but never the less.. heh