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Day One of the Course… CAVES… SCARED
Matt our instructor asked us to be there at 8.30am. My body, however decided to do a Monte Zuma's Revenge, so we were a little later than that. Matt is big and German and not the person to be late with!!!!
First two hours were lectures… positive we would survive the day… NOT!
Load up the truck and off we go to the POOL OF PAIN. Yep that is what it was called. It's at a cenote called Eden, which sounds deceivingly quite nice.
Before going in the water, we had line tying drills. Although this is a major part of the course, I am sure Matt is doing this to make us look like idiots, running around trees with our eyes closed, hand in front of faces, to protect them as you crash fast as you can through forest, and into… a tree!!! And yep, we did look silly.
Off we go into the water. As I mentioned before, a cenote is where the land has dropped into an underground river, leaving a big, water-filled hole together with entrances along its sides, leading into the caves.
Matt goes down and lays a line in the open water section of the cenote. We then have to hold it and swim very slowly around it, checking all the tie offs. We then have to do it again with our eyes, shut. firstly Matt wraps the line around my reel as a test. I manage to get un-tangled, and after that I started to move on. But, my eyes, briefly flickered open and guess who was infront of me. Yep, Matt, so… off came my mask. I got out my back up mask, but… no, he whipped that off me too, and off I went having to do it all again, now maskless. This time he wrapped the line around my tank valves, which I managed to get out of as well. But… I was too slow and I "died"!!
Andy did the same kind of things except that Matt hooked the line around Andy's fin just before he went under an outcropping. He died too.
So far we have "died" four times on land and twice underwater.
Then, it's on to working with two of us on the line. Andy is infront, me behind, with my head more or less on his shoulder. Too slow around the circuit, and we died again.
After this, we went for a quick cavern dive. Awesome!!! The formation is amazing. Matt lead, then Andy, with me at the back. We hit the end of the penetration and turned. I was now leading and Matt told us to turn off the main lights and I had to go to my silly little back up light. Now it's darker, but still awesome.
Day two of the course tomorrow, let's see how many times we die.
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