| apparently took me around the pier while holding my | | | | quite normally, nothing else matters. |
| hand. Apparently I missed seeing a whale. I was so | | | | Once you breath deeply and naturally underwater, |
| frightened that I had my eyes tightly shut. However, | | | | you are in a different environment: it is your own |
| I learned a very valuable lesson despite being | | | | personal underwater Jacques Cousteau television |
| hysterical before getting in the water: once in, there | | | | show. It is too exciting to worry about anything. No |
| is little choice; you have to breathe! Trust me, it is | | | | one anywhere in the world is allowed in the water |
| either that or drown. That was the lesson I learned: | | | | without a diving certificate. Earning that diving |
| all you have to do to make a good diver is breathe, | | | | certificate teaches you everything you need to |
| nothing more and nothing less. Once you have | | | | know, including how to cope with most minor |
| mastered the fact that you can breathe under water | | | | incidents. |