Officially Open Water Scuba Certified!

As of yesterday I am officially certified! We did our last dive yesterday morning and took our exam after and the four of us passed with flying colors. This means that we are now certified to dive up to 18 meters (30 feet). By the way the whole thing with the US not being on the metric system is really screwing me up here. We dive according to meters, choose the weights for our scuba weight belts in kilograms and discuss temperature in Celsius, and I’d say I’ve figured out the conversations for these things only about a fourth of the time. You can say to me all day that it’s 28 degrees Celsius and I’m still checking my weather app for the Fahrenheit temperature.

On our leisure dive in the afternoon we went down to a different jetty and saw the most marine life we’ve seen on a dive, including a turtle cleaning itself on coral, a lobster, a lion fish, and a trigger fish (I think I can’t actually identify all of these on my own!). We finished off the day with some beach volleyball and celebratory beers. This week should be some more leisure dives, and then it’s on to our Advanced certification.