Learning a new and different diving technique was great. I got the chance to experience a different type of diving, known as drift dive. The biggest difference between a drift dive and a normal dive was that in regular dives you go around the reef for 20 minutes, and then you go back to the boat which takes another 20 minutes following the same route. In other words you stay in the same spot most of the time. However, in the drift dive you basically start from the boat but you move with the current of the ocean and end up the dive in the middle of the sea when everyones oxygen is around 50 bars, and then the boat comes and picks you up.
Doing the drift dive was a really nice adventure because we never saw the same thing, due to the fact that we never returned to the original starting point. It was very scary but funny when we got out of the water and we were floating in the middle of nowhere having no idea what marine creatures where below us. In this dive apart from the difference regarding the concept, there was one thing that also changed, the way we went out of the water. Basically since we were going out in the middle of nowhere, advanced divers had to launch there parachutes (being used as buoy) in order for any boat to see us before going out.
Apart from doing the drift dive, it was the first time that we dived altogether. Normally what we did was separate in groups of five and each group had an instructor, you dived in the same site but we didn't see each other while diving. However, in the drift dive, we were together the whole time and I enjoyed it a lot. Apart form this the drift dive was something unfamiliar that I hadn't done before so it was a chance to learn a variety of new things related to diving, and what you need to do in this specific dive; I had lots of fun.
#MINI INTERNSHIP december 29 - january 3