Woke up fairly early to start my diving course properly, we headed down to the classroom to do some written work until lunch.

After lunch we headed out into the water, firstly we had to demonstrate we could swim, 2 laps around the boat, simple. Then we got all our equipment on, which is really heavy and into the water we went.

Ben didn't make it this far, he'd had a bad night feeling rough and being out on a boat didn't help his situation, game over Mr. Thurstan.

Myself and Nick proceeded with the course, we learnt so much that day, but it was really fun. We went down about 5-6 metres which doesn't sound much at all but when you are on the ocean floor, breathing, it's a whole new experience. We saw lots of marine life and completed different skills such as removing your mask under water and taking out our breathing apparatus and using someone else's in case we ran out of air, exciting stuff.

After an hour or so in the water we headed back to the boat to find Ben in a bad way. The water was quite choppy so we couldn't do anymore diving for the day so we headed back to the hotel and went out for dinner.