CT Diver, Taiwan

Galder Jon

16/08/14 at 16:30

Second dive of the day, it stopped raining but sky was still covered. Spot near the previous one, I did some snorkeling previous to diving. In this dive we saw a lot of corals, both soft and hard, huge variety of colored fish and a small white ray hidden in the sand, also a balloon fish. Long dive of 65 minutes and a safety stop of 4 long minutes. 歆惟 improved a lot from the previous dive and controlled buoyancy much better, this time she was brought 4kg. instead of 5kg. of the previous dive. Now she was more relaxed and we did not descend so low as before, the long dive helped her to improve a lot, however she still uses her hands to try to control movements... She will learn not to do it with a few more dives. She is good at breathing and spends very little air. She enjoyed the dive and we even had a chance to take away the second stages and kiss under the water quickly.

Galder Jon

16/08/14 at 14:41

First dive with 歆惟，25 metres which is crazy for her first free dive after licensing as OWD. Huge rain nonstop. We dived together with a group of nitrox users from another dive center. Our group was 5: insttructor Carrie from TCDivers, a chinese girl, a Tainan nice guy with a huge camera and us. Dive from boat, using rope to descend and for the safety stop. Small cave and lots of nudibranchs down there. Low visibility and current in the surface. 歆惟 descended slowly, with some problems, once arrived down there she kept on going to the bottom and could not control buoyancy, also she lost a fin but we managed to put itback on. The last minutes of the dive she improved and we ascended and made 3 minutes safety stop with no problems. Once on the boat she had some nose bleeding due to pressure. Good and crazy first dive together, easy to be improved in next dives.