Dive the Great Barrier Reef

“We checked our buoyancy, found our buddy, did the OK signal, looked around, got our bearings right, heard some initial instructions from the instructors, digested the first moments of this thrilling diving experience which was being buoyant without moving hands and feet and slowly let some air out of our jackets as we started descending into the dazzling blue waters. I must say, though, that I don’t remember much about those first seconds as at that time apart from trying to see everything around me and cherish the moment, I needed to concentrate on all the safety precautions to make sure my dive was OK like trying to take heed on the equalisation process by blowing my finger-blocked nose.”

“I’m on my first night dive on the Great Barrier Reef and I have seen a hundred or more giant trevally and somewhere in the neighborhood of 40 reef sharks along with various other creatures of the night like rock crabs and lobster (called cray fish in Australia). We left Cairns at 8:00am this morning on the Reef Experience, a day excursion boat that holds around 80 passengers, for a snorkel and dive experience on the Great Barrier Reef.”