We all have that certain one escape that lets us be free from out troubles, stress, and minds just for a little while. If you don’t, you really should find what it is for you. For me, it’s diving. I began diving in Sicily a few years back. I wanted to try something new and well as crazy as it sounds; drowning is one of my biggest fears, so why not face my fear. When I first started the classes for my certification I was pretty excited. As soon as we hit the water and had to submerge, that was a completely different story. I was terrified. It was only in a swimming pool and I could not grasp the concept of breathing under water. I grew up on the water. My family went to the lake ever weekend, boating and swimming so I was comfortable with the water, just not under it. After a few tries I final began to be at ease with breathing underwater. The first day we hit the open ocean, I was hooked.
Unfortunately with my deployment I was not able to do much diving in Sicily after getting my certification. When I came to Hawaii I had a pretty hard time and I needed something that would get me out of my head. I called and scheduled a dive with one of the local dive shops here and was hooked all over again.
Diving gives me a few hours out of my head, out of the city, and stress free. The ocean is the whole other world that is so fascinating and terrifying at the same time. There is so much life under the surface and the fact that I get to experience that is an incredible feeling. Sometimes I’ll be at the beach just sitting there looking out into the water and just think how there is this whole world that most people don’t get to or want to see. Diving is a sense of peace for me. It’s slow, and calming. Fish and turtles are just swimming around you. You get to see an object that was meant to float, sunk at the ocean floor and that is mind blowing. Seeing a wreck and going through the hallways and rooms of this once floating ship is a feeling I can’t explain. You are seeing and experiencing something that shouldn’t be at the bottom and was built to stay on top of the water. You are experiencing a whole other world.
Diving is my escape.
Unfortunately with my deployment I was not able to do much diving in Sicily after getting my certification. When I came to Hawaii I had a pretty hard time and I needed something that would get me out of my head. I called and scheduled a dive with one of the local dive shops here and was hooked all over again.
Diving gives me a few hours out of my head, out of the city, and stress free. The ocean is the whole other world that is so fascinating and terrifying at the same time. There is so much life under the surface and the fact that I get to experience that is an incredible feeling. Sometimes I’ll be at the beach just sitting there looking out into the water and just think how there is this whole world that most people don’t get to or want to see. Diving is a sense of peace for me. It’s slow, and calming. Fish and turtles are just swimming around you. You get to see an object that was meant to float, sunk at the ocean floor and that is mind blowing. Seeing a wreck and going through the hallways and rooms of this once floating ship is a feeling I can’t explain. You are seeing and experiencing something that shouldn’t be at the bottom and was built to stay on top of the water. You are experiencing a whole other world.
Diving is my escape.