Fully Certified and Shipwreck Diving

Sorry about the radio silence everyone. We didn't have a solid internet connection all day yesterday and most of today. I just checked my stats and I've gotten past 1,000 hits, thanks everyone for following along with my blog. I hope you've been enjoying it so far ^_^ . Also, happy Mother's Day Mom, love you.

Today was our shipwreck diving excursion. We got on the boat at 8am and headed out. I have to say that I've always had awesome boat drivers during all my travels.

We visited two Japanese WWII ships today that were sunk by the US in 1944. 'MERICA!

Also we had another coral reef dive as well. You can check out the diagrams of the ships below

Both were equally awesome, and huge. Once we arrived on site, there was a black buoy that our boat would latch on to, we'd jump into the water wearing our scuba gear and basically pull ourselves down to the ship below. It's seriously freaky how deep the ocean can get. You can't see the bottom and when you get low enough, you really can't see where the water ends above you.

I think the maximum  depth that we reached was about 18 meters and there were just fish everywhere just like in the reefs. It's pretty cool how the coral has overtaken the hull of both of the ships that it's just become a new home for all these fish. 

I think each dive averaged about 45 minutes each and the time really rushed by. I don't think there's any other way to describe scuba diving other than flying. Once you manage your buoyancy, you're effortlessly floating about these fish and coral going along with the current, a very addictive feeling which I must feed in the near future with more diving trips. 

So we did one shipwreck and then one coral reef dive which marked Alex and my official completion of our recreational diving certification. Woot! Now that we were officially completed with our training, Phillip took us through the body of the 2nd ship. It was crazy how dark and deep it was. There really weren't any fish inside that I could see either.

I'm really glad I was able to do my open water dives in the Phillippines, doing it in Lake Calhoun just wouldn't measure up if I were to do it back home. Phillip was an awesome instructor and I would love to come back here to dive again.

Tomorrow is the day we head out to Singapore. We have to take the ferry out to Coron Town at 9am, fly to Manila at 4:30, fly to Singapore at 8:30 and arrive at midnight. So it's going to be a long day of travel.

I hope people have enjoyed the diving pictures so far, they just aren't the same thing as actually being there. I'll see if we have any faster internet at the next place for me to post a few videos of us diving.