PADI course in Honduras

For those of you who didn't know, my record of holding my breath underwater is for 2 mins and 43 seconds in the Technion pool. (You can try this... It's really, really, really hard). Seemed quite cool at the time, until a diver came to me and told me I was nearly killing myself. Oops. Now I know that I hyperventilated to a point where the need to breath reduces dramatically. In this situation I could loose consciousness without the need to breath, and... hmmm... Well... Good nothing bad happened. Anyway, I thought this skill would help me in someway in my divings, but since I started this course, all I hear all the time is the rule #1 of diving: 'never hold your breath'. Merd.
Anyway, it is lots of fun. Today I start a Nitrox course, which will allow me to stay more time underwater. This is done using air enriched with 30 something percentages of Oxygen instead of the usual 21%. Somehow they have managed to write tons of material about technical stuff in a really interesting way. It seems that the american PADI staff did a better job than most of the computer technical writers I read in the last couple of years. Their learning system which repeats the important stuff 3 times - once reading it, once watching a video, and once with the instructor - really works.



Well, that's it for now...
From the beautiful beaches of Utila,
Adios,
Eitan.