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Dykning er ret fedt...+ English

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Saa kom vi til Utila som jo var vores maal efter Granada. Vi tog fra San Pedro Sula efter en meget varm nat. Vi tog bussen til en by ved navn La Ceiba hvorfra vi skulle sejle til Utila. Busturen gik rigtig fint og det gjorde sejlturen ogsaa...for vores vedkommende! Da det selskab med hvem vi sejlede lige havde faaet en splinter ny motorbaad skulle de selvfoelgelig vise deres kunder hvad den kunne og jeg skal lige love for vi fik en demonstration. Efter deres jomfrutur for et par dage siden havde de aabentbart laert at de skulle dele poser ud til diverse maveindhold inden sejlturen startede. Poserne blev da ogsaa brugt flittiget, men heldigvis ikke af os.

Turen varede ca. 1 time og da vi igen fik fast grund under foedderne var vi havnet midt i Edens have. Vandet var turkis og fuldstaendig klart, solen skinnede fra en skyfri himmel, flok var flinke og hjaelpsomme og vi kunne bo helt vildt billigt! Vi blev hurtigt "fanget" af to engelske piger der arbejer for en af de mange dykkerfirmaer hernede. De ville naturligvis have os med paa deres kursus og de fik lokket os, selvom der var 10-15 andre tilbud. Vi fik os indlogeret paa et vaerelse som dykkerfimaet udlejede og vi forhoerte os saa lidt om dykkerkurset inden vi sagde:" ja tak".

Mandag kom saa dagen hvor kurset startede og denne dag skulle vi bruge paa at se et par introduktionsfilm. Vi brugte det meste af formiddagen paa dette og om eftermiddagen tog vi med dykkerbaaden ud paa koralrevet for at snorkle (Utila har verdens 2. stoerste koralrev). Det var en super oplevese og vi gladede os derfor endnu mere til tirsdag som var den dag vi skulle have vores foerste egentlig dyk (ned til 12 m.). Aftenen gik med at se lidt mere film, laese lidt i dykkerboegerne og ellers slappe lidt af.

Tirsdag oprandt saa dagen hvor vi fik vores foerste dyk. Vi startede kl 08 om morgenen med at gennemgaa noget af den teori vi havde laest og set paa film mandag og kl 13 skulle vi saa under vand for foreste gang. Denne gang var det dog blot nogle smaa faerdigheder vi skulle traene paa lavt vand og det gik fint for os begge. Vi er kun 4 personer paa vores hold hvilket ikke er ret mange saa instruktoeren har rigtig god tid til at soerge for at vi laere det hele ordentligt...(vi er i trygge haender mor!!). Kl. 15 kom baaden saa ind for at sejle os ud paa lidt dybere vand. Vores foerste dyk skulle gaa ned til 12 meter og hvilken oplevelse det var. Heldigvis havde ingen paa vores hold problemer med at komme ned til bunden (kan vaere lidt svaert pga. f.eks. tryk i oerne) saa vi var hurtigt nede og begyndte at dykke lidt rundt paa revet. Det var en ubeskrivelig oplevelse. Om aftenen saa vi lidt mere teorifilm inden undervisningen onsdag.

Onsdag (i dag) havde vi teoritimer om formiddagen og vi kunne vaelge at tage eksamen i dag eller i morgen. Vi valgte at goere det i morgen for at kunne laese lidt op paa det i aften. Kl. 13. skal vi ud og oeve de sidste faerdigheder under vandet og kl 15. skal vi saa ud paa vores foerste dyk ned til 18 meter. Kan ikke vente!! Inkluderet i vores kursus er to saakaldte "fundives" hvilket vil sige at vi faar to gratis dyk efter vi har bestaaet kurset saa det bliver superfedt. Vi regner med at vi tager fra denne oe loerdag eller soendag. Maaske bliver det foerst mandag eller tirsdag da det siges at den stoerste vits her paa oen er: "jeg rejser i morgen!" saa nu faar vi se om det ogsaa gaelder for os?!

Mange kaerlig hilsner

Mia og Lasse

ENGLISH VERSION: Utila is a paradise!!

We made it! After a really long night in San Pedro Sula, we got on a but to La Ceiba and catched the ferry out to Utila. We had a couple of hours waiting for the ferry (it only leaves twice a day), and we just happend to be very lucky, because our waiting time was exactly the time of second half of the World Cup Finals. I didn't turn out the way we hoped though... (go france...) Well, Italy won, but is it cool to win a World Cup on a shoot-out? We don't think so!!! The boat ride was...  rough. They just got a brand new boat just a couple of days earlier, so the captain was still not done showing off. To him that meant attacking the waves as crazy (and you're not supposed to!) I guess they got smarter since the first ride, because at the beginning of the ride they handed out small plastic-bags for anyone who might get a little seasick. In the middle of the ride, half of the people on board was emptying their stomachs in the small plasticbags or were giving offers to the Lord of the Sea..

Well, after an hour we reached Utila and it really is a paradise! White beaches, houses ON the sea and only one street running through the whole city! Half of the houses are actually Diving Shoops, since there should be the second most beautiful corral-reef  in the world here! We found us a nice diving-shop, that should be really safe and have all new gear and really good instructors. To nice english girls took us down their, and after asking about the course, we signed up for the PADI's Open Water diving course. Very exciting!! We were still tired from all the travelling, so we went to bed pretty early.

Monday we "started" on the course. We had to watch 5 different videos of introduction to diving and answer some questions in the book. After Lunch we got to go on the diving boat just for some snorkling. You can do that for free when you sign up for diving! It was gorgeous! Even snorkling was enough to see tons of colorful fish. Monday night we watched some more videos for the course.

Tuesday was the day of our first real dive! We met at the shop at 8am to have some classes about the first couple of chapters in the book. After luch we got the gear on (jesus christ it's heavy!), and went with the diving boat. Not for long though, because before we got to go in the deep water, they had us practice some skills in shallow water. It was still fun though - just so amazing being able to breath underwater! We went down to 2 meters (6ft) to practice taking the regulator out of your mouth and put it back in, to clear your mask underwater when it's filled with water, to share air with your buddy... things like that. At about 3 pm the boat came back to pick u up and we went for our very first dive down to 30 ft. PRETTY COOL!!! Everything went fine and it was incredible down there! The fish didn't even notice us - they just swim right by your nose as if you weren't there! Everyone in our group was doing fine - it can be difficult equalizing the pressure in your ears, but we had no problems! Tuesday night we watched the rest of the videos for the course..

Today we had theory in the morning again. We are now finished with all the theory and just need to take the test tomorrow morning. In the afternoon we went for our second real dive after practicing some more skills. It was amazing again - being able to breath 30 ft under the surface! And againwe saw so many cool fish - I think this is where Disney went before making the "Finding Nemo". There are so many cool fish! We still didn't find nemo though... Tonight the diveshop arranged a barbeque so that will probably be a lot of fun!

Sending our love and thoughts

Lasse and Mia

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