"The boat is broken!" This news reached us this morning via-via the dive shop. The repairs lasted all day and are probably ready until tomorrow. Required for a day ashore but remain. And that's quite strange, because we are by now quite to the rhythm of the dive masters are accustomed. Every day around 9 hours to the shop, packing stuff and help customers to pack. Then some fiddling, Internet and chatting and towards the boat. On the boat a morning swim and then a fruit snack. After the afternoon dive then follows some nakaarten, sunbathing and cleanup. An easy and regular existence.
Well, today our flippers were so dry. And that's really not bad. I got some time with my nose in a book. There all sorts of fun books lying around in the dive shop full of info and pictures. Judica was fiddling around noon sat in the afternoon some more snorkeling with Chris and Sara. That's easy for such a small tropical island: the sea is always within walking distance.
Because we have such orderly life is actually very little to report. Maybe so nice to a small glimpse into the underwater life. When I first started diving I had rather my thoughts about the whole place under water. All that stuff, all the water above you, breathing underwater ... Lots of questions and concerns. Meanwhile, Judica and I learned a lot and we know that the equipment we use is extremely safe and reliable. Diving is the technical progress is a very safe hobby (around the globe is only 0.04% of the diving accident). And breathing underwater is actually not as difficult as I thought.
In fact, diving is a kind of underwater tai-chi: the essence of a good dive is rest. Fast motion is from the evil. Go with the flow, let your legs dangle, drop the arms and give the shoulders. Judica and I have fewer headaches, neck pain and other physical discomfort than ever before. With one exception: my head is full of bumps continuously bumping against the door and low ceilings on the boat. Of course you can not have everything.
Tomorrow we will hopefully back into the water, but the odds are 50/50. The bearings of the wheel must be replaced and because the components thereof from the mainland to come, the repairs begin until tomorrow morning. But much more must not take. I miss the angel fish and the swell of the sea and get all that bothered by landlubber ...
