On my siblings' 2nd full day of their 2-week visit over the Christmas holidays, we took them on their first ever SCUBA dive in salt water! That's right, no more frigid fresh-water North American rock quarry. ;-) Having been recently certified in Birmingham, Alabama (at our suggestion) before coming to visit us here in the coral-reef-diving wonderland that is Okinawa, Jane & John were ready to see what they'd been missing. We chose the very novice-friendly & nearby Sunabe Water Treatment Plant location (at the southern end of that section of the sea wall) as the first destination. Unfortunately, it was fairly overcast (the day before having been absolutely spectacular, of course) & the visibility down under wasn't the finest, but the newbies had a great first dive (unlike the photographer, Josh, whose "new" but very used BCD just refused to hold onto his tank). Things were really fine with the dive until a surface brought us to the realization that conditions below were better than above, where we left Brittany & Jordan, who had become miserable once the rains started & our misplaced van keys were nowhere to be found. Before John & Josh thoroughly demolished the driver door trying to break in, the astute neighbor who received our misplaced keys in her bag returned them to us, having seen our plight from her nearby apartment. And before too much longer the ordeal was done & we made a few adjustments in our future planning (so as not to repeat such potential disaster). Sorry again, Jordan & Brittany!
Friday, December 21, 2007
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