One of the highlights of a fabulous 3 weeks in Meedhupparu was taking a one day Scuba Diving course.The course started off in the resorts swimming pool then a short video covering the various pieces of equipment. Cliff & I and two other participants were then kitted out with wetsuits and all the equipment and taken into shallow water just off the beach to go through emergency procedures in the event that our breathing tubes were dislodged from our mouths.
The next stage was not something I had expected after such a short time. We were taken by boat to an open water dive site just off another island and dived down about 20 metres to the sea bed and then spent 40 minutes swimming amongst the coral reef.
This was an amazing experience and took you into another world. Snorkeling off the beach gives you views of loads of different reef fish but diving to this depth the variety increases considerably as well as seeing the different types of coral. The highlight of the dive for me was the sight of a turtle just swimming by us totally unfazed by us mere humans.
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