Nha Trang, Vietnam Day 2

After the craziness the day before, we still got our work done. The questions for the diving class were completed at breakfast. From there we headed to the dive shop. We met with Holly, who was our instructor for our dives. She is Chinese and a blast to dive with. Everything was fun and enjoyable.

The first dive was our deep dive. She had us mount stage tanks on our right side. This was another full size tank in addition to our main on our backs. It clipped up high on your should strap on the BCD and at a lower point. A giant stride from the boat was a little tricky with the weight, but once in the water it was fine. I didn't really know it was there once we got going. We got down to depth and did a little number game to see if nitrogen narcosis was setting in. Luckily, we both did fine and from there we slowly ascended up the reef wall taking in the sights. It was only 30m, but the visibility was poor, so the darkness set in and made it eerie. Cool!

Lunch on the boat has been pleasantly similar throughout SE Asia. You get a wonderful fruit spread with tea and water. I brought along some extras to share with the group. The weird knock off Pringles were a hit. They cant seem to get BBQ flavor right. Oh well.

The second dive was a shallower fun dive. Its funny that we were taking a deep class since there is nothing to see down there. It's when you get to the 15m and shallower depths that you get the beautiful coral and fish. Going that deep is mostly for wrecks and recovery. Some operations won't take you that deep without the cert, so we thought it was a good plan.

As always, the boats out here are intriguing. The captain is a Vietnamese boatman that has obviously been out on the water too long. I always have to check the engines out on these boats and when I looked down below, the engine was practically laying in a bed of beer cans. Surely, these are cans that he found and was taking them for recycling. You bet.

We got back and had lunch with the crew. I had an interesting take on a cheeseburger. It had ground carrots and other goodness mixed in with the meat. It was almost like a spring roll chomped up into a burger and cheese. Sounds weird, but was very good.

 

 

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