If you’ve read my previous post you will know that I have a rather big fear of water. So walking on the bottom of the sea – me??? Hardly likely!
I’ve been going through all my old photographs recently, (there are 1000’s) trying to make some space on our bookshelves for my son’s expanding library.
Whenever I went on holiday, one of my biggest expenses was on getting all my photo’s developed (yes, the pre-digital age – I am THAT old!). Anyway, in 1994 I got married to my first husband in Mauritius. Then, it was a relatively new idea to get married on a beach somewhere exotic, now it’s just the norm. A few days after our wedding, I did, probably the scariest thing in my entire life – I walked on the bottom of the sea. I’ve just googled it and you can still do it, all these years later!
I was terrified, I hated water, at that point, I could NOT swim at all. My ex was a very good swimmer and always very patient with me on our many ‘water trauma’ excursions. To this day I do not know how I got talked into walking underwater, we went with another couple we’d met at our hotel. We explained my fears to the guide and he briefed the divers who went down with us. We had weighted belts around our waists and wore real old-fashioned diver’s helmets with oxygen lines. We climbed down a ladder at the back of the launch boat and were guided down 3-4 metres to the seafloor. To me, the currents seemed really, really strong – who knows if they were, but I was shaking continuously and held onto my ex for dear life. The divers were absolutely excellent – they checked on me repeatedly. I have no idea how long we were down there, it seemed like hours at the time. But I DID IT. No matter what happens I can always say that I walked on the bottom of the sea as a non-swimmer!!!
Here is the evidence …..
I can be brave when I want to be 🙂
My goodness I would have taken one look at that helmet and run for my life!!
lol – I wish that those photo’s showed just how terrified I was. Those helmets were blooming heavy too!
wow well done! x
Thank you – hard to believe it was nearly 20 years ago now!
you must be ready to go again! xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Uum, let me think about that – NO 🙂
Wow, so brave. I can swim, and I love being in a pool – but I don’t like deep water and I’m not sure I would have managed this… Good for you!
Thanks, it was definately a ONCE in a lifetime thing 🙂
Well done for doing it. I’m pretty confident in the water and scuba diving but I must admit that helmet looks pretty scary to me!
Thanks, it was heavy!
OMG thats amazing! i would never have done this its so brave! xx
Thanks, I think more mad than brave – lol
So impressed, I had a go at diving once with Mark Warner and decided it was not for me. Popping over from PoCoLo
I’ll never get to the diving stage, tried to snorkle when I did learn to swim but it was a it like learning to drive – too much to think of at once!
What an immense achievement when you are so scared of water, well done. That helmet looks so heavy! Thank you for linking up to PoCoLo lovely xx
Thanks, it was!