If all first dives are like mine, they sure are a thrill. For a start, I decided to dive alone after posing a few questions to other divers.We were staying in one of the most beautiful places I know: Paradise Island or Santa Carolina. It was the last time we visited the island, because a few months later the war in Mozambique started. Without the necessary maintenance, the island infrastructures were completely destroyed.
In a high point of the island, there was a cute little white church looking over a small bay. The water was so clean and blue that I decided, after some considerations, I could try a dive in that place by myself.
Easy said, easy done. Next morning, I equipped myself with borrowed snorkel and googles, and here I went into the water. It was hot and fresh at the same time, the perfect temperature for me. I was just snorkling and from time to time trying to dive, a great struggle because I wasn’t wearing any weights.
So I decided that the best thing to do was to stay very still looking down, not attracting fishes of any kind. I was feeling a great respect for underwater world and I was afraid that sea inhabitants would treat me like an intruder.
Well, the result of staying still on the surface was that small and medium fishes from all species and colours (most of them yellow) invaded the little bay and started to come closer and closer, to the point that the little creatures brushed against me. They would almost touch me and suddenly turn away.
What should I do? I left the water quickly, a little scared and at same time a little excited with my “adventure”. Anyway, diving alone is not a wise thing to do, even in a such peaceful looking bay. And this is something that any professional or average trained diver knows.
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