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diving boat — Time to tank up!

diving boat — Ready to head out exploring.

diving boat — Final approach. Here's what it looks like from above. Dive was interesting. Fun to go down deep, but the deeper you go, the shorter the dive time.

diving boat — After the first dive, we hung out for a bit and then headed off to the second, less-deep dive of the day.

diving boat — If you look just past the anchored boat, the light stripe in the water is the edge of the Blue Hole.

diving boat — They had superhero-esque wetsuits! Me and Alex with our DM about to get wet.

diving boat — Lexi coming up the ladder...

diving boat — Warming up and drying off between dives!

diving boat — Mer snapped this great action shot of me getting wet!

diving boat — Aileen getting ready for the first dive.

diving boat — Strapping on a fresh tank.

diving boat — See you in 40 minutes!

diving boat — Around 10:30, we anchored about 200 yards off of this island and got ready for our first dive.

diving boat — Rad.

diving boat — All the boats were beautiful wooden boats.

diving boat — ...and we set out for our first diving site!

diving boat — Made it onto the diving boat around 7:30am...

diving boat — When I got to the surface...

diving boat — Here's a pic Meredith snapped of me hooking up my tanks before my dive.

diving boat — Seemed to work fine in natural light, though.

diving boat — Another view. The sea was so choppy our dive master almost canceled our trip...

diving boat — Passing the uninhabited, high cliffs of Phi Phi Don.

diving boat — I got up super-early on Monday morning and sneaked out of the room without waking Meredith. By 8:30, I was already on a boat headed out for two dives. Here's the view as we pulled away from the island.

diving boat — Hahaha.

diving boat — Reviewing pics of the jumps.

diving boat — Here's me with our boat's captain and Tiny, our diving instructor.

diving boat — Having never used scuba gear before, Meredith was apprehensive. But earlier in the morning I'd reassured her that they'd spend some time taking her through everything and giving her a lesson before the dive. Nope! Not in Jamaica! They were pretty much like, "Just don' forget to keep breee'ting, mon. An' ev'ry ting will be fiiiiiine!" Hahaha. Seriously, that was about all the instruction she got.

diving boat — Heading out to the dive site. The dive went ok. Meredith had some trouble regulating her buoyancy (Hmmm...maybe because no one ever showed her how to properly use her BC vest?) and spend the majority of her dive in a trying-not-to-float-to-the-surface panic. But hey, at the end of the day, Jamaica's got lots of TINGS to help you deal with stress...

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