Learn to scuba dive and explore a shipwreck.

“I remember doing my first wreck dive, I heard a couple of divers on the dive boat talk about booking a wreck dive and I asked if I could join them. The following day the three of us partnered up as buddies (British Virgin Islands) to dive the wreck of the RMS Rhone. The depth was around 75’. Oh my, it was so breath-taking to see this vivid image of a large wreck covered with beautiful lush coral and a great abundance of fish life swimming in and out of the wreck. Hypnotized by the silence of the ship’s eerie uniqueness and feeling like I had gone back into history, I lost sight of my 2 buddies. What was this ship like before it went down? Then, I realized I was running low on air and had just enough to slowly ascend and do my 3-minute safety stop. I also had no idea what direction to go to get back to the boat. After surfacing, I was very happy the boat captain found me after I blew my whistle. Back on the dive boat, I was very disappointed to discover my buddies and the rest of the divers were still diving together.”

“Emptying our BCDs, Courtney and I sank to the down into the blue below our fins. As my depth gauge ticked past 40ft, a massive black shadow started to appear. Feathering my inflator button dumping air into my BCD to slow the descent, we hovered 10ft above the stern superstructure laying on it’s starboard side. But the idea of being inside of a man-made structure on the ocean floor, with coral growing on the walls, and fish swimming around us, it was other-worldly. But I was relieved to say the least when I came back out to open water. Looking ahead, towards the bow, the middle cargo hold of the ship had separated from the bow and stern, and sprawled out on the sandy bottom below. We watched a few of our dive group cruise along the bottom and towards the bow while we stayed higher in the water column to help avoid deco. I witnessed one of the divers from Spain not drop deep enough and rammed the top of his tank into one of the crossmembers on the shipwreck before freeing himself and continuing forward. And that lead us to the bow, nearing the end of our dive.”