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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 |
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Diving in Dehab
Today I finished the 3 dives needed to obtain my advanced diving PADI license. Now I can do really stupid things like swimming in ship wrecks and do dental exams on Great Whites. The dives were incredible and the water was an awesome blue color that can only be recreated with paint. It's hard to describe the whole diving experience other than to say it isn't like the pictures and it isn't like snorkeling. The feeling of breathing underwater, the mounting pressure on the body, the unique seascapes, and swimming along schools of fish is best described as being in another world. Diving had left me incredibly exhausting and I wanted to relax before catching the night bus to Cairo. I was incredibly happy that Shisha had either not been banned in Dahab or the coffee shops were simply not abiding by the law. The temporary ban was supposedly put into effect in order to control the spread of swine-flu because the coffee shops have a poor record of cleaning the pipes after each use. Seeing as I've already had the swine-flu, this was not a concern to me, and I was eager to partake in this very Egyptian habit. So, in light of it being available, I once again enjoyed the coastal breeze over shisha and coffee.
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