Jenn and I have been doing something out of our comfort zone, and a little adventurous lately. We decided to take up a life-long goal in my life, and that is scuba diving. Jenn graciously agreed to taking the course with me. We did 4 classroom sessions, 4 pool sessions and 4 open-water sessions to hopefully become a certified open-water diver. We both scored really well in our classwork, and really well in our pool sessions, but the open-water was really tough on both of us.
On Saturday we went to Whytecliff Park (near Horseshoe Bay) and attempted our 1st and 2nd open-water sessions. If you remember last Saturday was still OCTOBER, the water was super cold, but our wetsuits kept us sorta warm.
Today we skipped out on work and parental duties and went to Porteau Cove (near Squamish) to do our last 2 open-water dives. Our instructor Les, has been an amazingly patient man. We know him from our days at APA. He owns the
Langley Dive Center and gave us (basically) private lessons.
It was a long day, but at the end of it Jenn and I overcame some fears, and achieved our goal. We can now scuba dive!! It was an awesome feeling to have achieved something I have wanted to do (badly) since I was 15 years old. So, next week we are going to do a little scuba without wetsuits ;-) There will be a full report when we are done.
Thanks Les!!
On Saturday we went to Whytecliff Park (near Horseshoe Bay) and attempted our 1st and 2nd open-water sessions. If you remember last Saturday was still OCTOBER, the water was super cold, but our wetsuits kept us sorta warm.
Today we skipped out on work and parental duties and went to Porteau Cove (near Squamish) to do our last 2 open-water dives. Our instructor Les, has been an amazingly patient man. We know him from our days at APA. He owns the Langley Dive Center and gave us (basically) private lessons.
It was a long day, but at the end of it Jenn and I overcame some fears, and achieved our goal. We can now scuba dive!! It was an awesome feeling to have achieved something I have wanted to do (badly) since I was 15 years old. So, next week we are going to do a little scuba without wetsuits ;-) There will be a full report when we are done.
Thanks Les!!
4 comments:
That is SOOOOO cool. Good for you guys. It sounds like a blast.
Congratulations! That's awesome. There's nothing like the feeling of making a dream a realization.
Enjoy your trip!
WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You guys are so very brave! Well done on accomplishing a life goal, Dan! SUPER well done, Jenn, for supporting your hubby and dipping toes with him in the freezing Pacific ocean in October!!!!!!!
Good on ya both!!!
Andy says congratulations, and I should go diving with you guys sometime, although I haven't done that for many years.
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