we were lucky enough to be invited scuba diving by the amazing La Bombona Diving in Koh Tao
Thailand not only is Koh Tao a gorgeous Island it's also one of the best places in the world
to learn to scuba dive neither of us had ever been diving before so we jumped at the chance
to try it spoiler alert only one of us got certified
the moment has arrived
yeah now we are walking to our scuba diving orientation
with La Bombona Diving or LBD it's so cool because it's half Spanish half English
yeah so you can do courses in English or Spanish neither of us have ever gone diving before and we're trying to do our open water
so there's going to be a lot of studying and a lot of like technical stuff as well as learning to dive and then we have to do a test at the
end so we're hoping I can do my test in English and he can do his test in Spanish I'm nervous. I'm nervous too yeah
95% of the people that we get in here have never dived before
so you are going to be absolutely fine it's totally normal to be nervous
in fact if you're not nervous, why am I here? There's something wrong you're too cocky
today is just orientation at 4pm it's just to get you sized up for equipment
no we just met our group we have well it's us two and then there's two people from England
who have also never scuba dived so the four of us are going to be thrown in together with Ponxi
there's one more girl in our group so there's five of us and she has done two
dives before and she said she was super nervous and it was so much fun now she's doing the
course yeah so this is a helpful we feel a little better but
what is this?
yeah not even just Spanish we have Spanish and Catalan here
Spanish Catalan English what else Ponxi? what else. Perfect!
first time trying on a wetsuit
you look good it fits me? yeah! you look like a diver already!
are we ready? I guess so yeah for tomorrow this is weird
post first day cheers everyone's in here hopefully we'll be certified in three days
Day 2! yeah yesterday was just orientation and then we had our first homework to do so like actual studying quizzes
it was long like it was three hours it's a lot of info yeah today we have a like classroom work again kind of going over the homework
I guess and then we're in the pool I try everything on and learn to breathe and like do stuff
let's see how it goies.. well we have to do the swim test first oh God yeah and we are both not very good swimmers
The first diving rule and the most important rule, never hold your breath! never hold your breath
we have to go in the pool and swim 20 times over and back 20 times yeah and then after we have
to float for 10 minutes
how it's going? figuring out how to set up all the equipment we got our little weighted belts and stuff and I guess the next step is go oh well our wetsuit
we're done with the pool like five hours later um successful day though yeah except I can't take off my mask
under the water and put it back on and get the water out of the mask without choking
You are going to do it tomorrow. I'm the only one who failed and everyone else the other four of them they did everything
yeah I did everything except that one. I feel much better now, less scared and tomorrow is going to be
to be more exciting. yeah tomorrow we're supposed to go 12 meters in the ocean
Instructor time! I'm Ponxi nice to meet you guys!
Just for let you know how these two guys do it on the pool what's a long pool session because we were five people
and was a little bit challenging but after all they did all the skills so yeah we got it!
time for food so so so so so so good yeah the chicken looks really good actually
maybe I'm just hungry and Mr Krapaow finally and it's just in front of the La Bombona yeah it is good? it is good! it looks really good
time to go home and do homework again all night. The sunset looks so nice though yeah really diving is no joke
there's so much homework
full day yesterday full day number two and we're all wrapping our shirts except for Alice Alice is not
time for the exam yeah it's what 45 questions 45 questions yeah and you have to approve the exam before to go to the ocean
You are going to do it in English and I'm going to do it in Spanish . Do I look terrified? you look terrified!
we finished all 45 questions. Submit
fingers crossed
42!. 93% you made it
same as you 42! yeah 93? nice
did you guys you're still going? still going everyone passed! 1, 2, 3 Carles. we made it!
the point of no return here goes our group we're gonna take this long tail boat out to the big diving boat
I think it's a small boat not a long tail boat oh whatever we're taking a boat to a boat
I'm excited!' yeah Carles is excited I'm terrified!
equipment is ready! all ready we're starting to get our wetsuits on but we're jumping in here and we're going toward the beach they're ready
nervous or you are good? I think I'm good! that's amazing for the first dive yeah so we're gonna jump in here go to
the water and we have to do like the skills again but I feel better because the beach is
right there I'm still nervous I'm still shaking but we can see the beach
Everyone is getting ready. See you later! yeah
we went to five meters so yeah so we did the same as yesterday but here in the
ocean yeah the skills yeah down like five meters and we did good on all the skills except taking my
mask off I still choke every time and now we're gonna go like 12 meters down
uh we'll see but yeah it was better than I expected for that one but it was five and
not 12. so It's dive spot number two number two
this is the island we wanted to go, isn't it?
yeah haha or just the other side of it yeah because here's the little strip of beach between the
two islands what is it? Koh Nang Yuan and look at this you can just see all the stuff in the water that's
crazy hopefully that's 12 meters I feel like maybe I'd be okay if that's 12 meters.
do you see? yeah it's so clear
we are back yeah I failed you didn't fail like I failed um so today we had two dives the first one
was okay yeah we were six meters down like that so like touching our knees to the sand
we did our skills the the skills that we learned yesterday and you did great that one yeah
yeah everyone did great in this is that one then we went to the second dive spot which
was supposed to 12 meters and we got to like 10 meters and I was just not okay I was done
and then we continued diving and we saw a lot of fishes we saw a lot of coral it was nice
yeah the only problem is that Natalie was not there but tomorrow there's supposed to
be two more dives to 18 meters to get certified I cannot even imagine doing 18. so we were
talking to Bryan one of the owners when we left and luckily he's amazing he's super passionate
about diving and like wants me to like diving so Carles is going on with the group tomorrow
at 7 A.M to finish his certification at 18 meters and I'm going to go out with Bryan
by myself at noon and we're gonna do shallower dives but I mean that's good like I mean not
good but you you can see the reality like some people feel anxious and some people don't
Carles did fine I was I was also a little bit anxious but yeah it was fine but you
did it I enjoyed it I enjoyed it yeah yeah and I just I don't know did not we have no more
homework now because we passed the exam thank God so we have a free night and we can watch
some Netflix and try and relax and go to sleep good night
it's 8AM we are going to start the first diving of today, but Natalie is not here! let see how it goes
Hi! I've been messaging Carles and him and the others just finished their second dive and they all did the mask clearing so they're all certified
divers now yeah good job so they're on the boat now coming back and I'm about to
leave and go meet Bryan at the Dive Center to just do some like shallow fun Dives
everyone made it! Carles is a diver! and these 3 wow
and now I go upstairs alone
alright I'm out alone with Bryan now because everyone else is certified but
I'm just trying to get on to relax certainly diving it's supposed to be fun but you know
Natlalie is a little bit nervous but hopefully after today she's going to be a diver superstar yeah we'll see how it goes
Bryan couldn't fix me I freaked out again so everyone's still diving I'm up
here on the roof of the boat and I'm gonna tan ah
this is more my style LBD Bryan Ponxi like the instructors they've been amazing and they
say too like diving's not for everyone some people love it I don't maybe in a year or
so I can try again but yeah no they've all been really great even taking me out today
they're not like pushing me to try and do it because it's not gonna happen tried yesterday
tried again today yes it's not for me but Carles is certified and so is everyone else
in my class so that's amazing so many groups of divers
cheers to Carles he's a certified scuba diver. I'm Open Water 20 yes and you are
Open Water snorkel yeah I sat on a boat all day but at least you tried yeah and that too there was another guy on the boat
from a different company and he's not going back for his 18s either he didn't like it
so I'm like okay I'm not alone we have another Open Water here hello
hello hello. yeah certified! I'm glad we did it. yeah we were buddies
he is certified I found out I'm not a scuba diver I mean LBD they were great they were
amazing I couldn't do the 20. they were nice and supportive yeah they help us a lot they also took the videos
for the GoPro videos under water
lots of cool videos yeah!
thanks to Ponxi thanks to Ben, Bryan, Rocío thanks for everyone
yeah we will be back and you can dive and I will sit on the boat and sun tan