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Scuba Diving Racha Yai

This highly personal account from Racha Yai, Thailand captures the thrill and excitement of scuba diving at its best

Source: tracyjeanmills.blogspot.fi

One thing I was excited to do in Thailand was go scuba diving! It’s not very often that I get to scuba dive and I had heard that Thailand was one of the top places in the world to do it. I told everyone in the group to get certified before our trip so we could all go. Regardless of what any of them did… I was going. Daniel was the only one that ended up getting certified before we left so we were both pumped to go! Ellis ended up coming with us and doing “Discover Scuba” which is a crash course on scuba diving and you stay with your own Dive Master the whole time (which is why he isn’t in many of our pictures. It ended up being a little rainy while we were there, but we were still able to go. We were pumped!

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What Scuba Has Taught Me

Here are some deep thoughts about scuba diving coming from Gold Coast.

Gold Coast by air. Photo credit: By Syed Abdul Khaliq from Shah Alam, Malaysia [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Gold Coast by air.
Photo credit: By Syed Abdul Khaliq from Shah Alam, Malaysia [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Source: jennaaustraliablog.wordpress.com

Scuba diving is undoubtedly my favorite activity in the entire world. Words can’t describe the feeling of being submerged completely underwater for an hour or so and only hearing the sound of your breathing. It is the most peaceful and beautiful thing one can ever do, I think. If I could get paid a normal salary to be a scuba instructor I would have already become one. My love for the ocean is overwhelming, especially after being in Australia for a whole semester now. On one of my most recent dives in the Great Barrier Reef I began to think about how many life lessons scuba diving has taught me. Here are only a few.

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People and Stories

The boy and the seal

Here is a heart warming scuba diving story that is going viral.

Jamie Gallacher, a 15-year-old boy, was diving near the Calf of Man, which is located next to Isle of Man this August. This was his first dive from a boat.

He and the instructor,Michelle Haywood, had just started the dive when a gray seal appeared starting to tug on their fins. The seal turned out to be incredibly playful and, according to Jamie “just like a big puppy”.

The whole encounter lasted some 40 minutes and was capture on video by the instructor.  Now the story and the accompanying video has captured the hearts of many on Internet.

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