In the morning of the third day we all had to do our final exam, this is a 50 question test where you need 75% or more to pass. We were allowed to confer with the group if there was any questions we were a bit unsure on. The whole group passed with over 90% which is good apparently. When we finished the test, Shannon had to give Assad some bad news and tell him that he won't be able to let him dive in the sea. It was because of his asthma and the fact that he'd used his pump within the last 6 months. He kind of wished he lied now but it is a dangerous sport and we trusted Shannons knowledge that it would be unsafe for him to go to 18m just in case he did have an asthma attack.

That afternoon we got on the boat with all of the other groups with our gear and set off to the dive site called 'Twins'. Just as the boat leaves the boat leader does a roll call just to make sure nobody goes missing on the dive. After that we set up all of our gear again on the lower deck before heading up to the top deck to get a briefing from Shannon. He told us everything we would be doing under the water, we had a few more skills to put into practise. We also had to do all the stuff we did in the pool the day before as the qualification requires you to do all of the skills a number of times in both the pool and the sea. Today we would only be diving to 10 metres as it was our first time in the sea, then tomorrow we would dive down to between 16 and 18 metres, 18 metres being the depth we would be allowed to dive to if/when we get the qualification. The sea was crystal clear, the instructors were saying the visibility is the best it's been for 5 months. The dive lasted about 45 minutes, it was AMAZING going that deep under the sea is like going to another world, the coral is beautiful and there are so many different types of fish all different shapes, sizes and colours.

When we get back to the surface and back on the boat we have another briefing from Shannon talking about what skills individually we need to work on etc. He also talks about the next dive we would be doing in about an hours' time. We then go down to the lower deck and change our tanks over to full ones re-set the whole thing up and do our tests. It was then time for our second dive, also to 10 metres but this time we would do a bit more swimming around looking at things more than doing skills. It was just getting better and better, and we could see ourselves getting better at it, it's not as easy as it looks I promise. On this dive we saw a trigger fish, which is a fish that can get upto a metre long and have their own territory above their nest in a cone shape going right to the surface and if anything goes in that territory it will charge for you and try and bite you, apparently they only go for your fins/flippers as they think that they are the most threatening part of the body. After another 45 minutes under water we surfaced and got back on the boat, had another briefing and roll call then headed back to the dive centre. We then have to wash all of our gear with fresh water before we all sit in the bar and fill out our log books. This is a small official PADI book where you log all of your dives you do and get them signed off. This is for your own personal use as you can look back at the dives you did what you saw etc, but also for official use as, for example you need to have at least 100 logged dives before you can start training as a dive instructor.