Description: I did my open-water certification the year before in Cancun and was ready to do my advanced certification. The Adventures in Diving program offers both the Adventure Diver and Advanced Open Water Diver certifications. If you complete any three adventure dives, you can earn your PADI Adventure Diver certification. If you complete your Deep Adventure Dive, Underwater Navigation Adventure Dive, and three Adventure Dives (for a total of five), you can earn your Advanced Open Water Diver certification.
We dove at several local reefs in the 50- to 70-foot range. The flora and fish life was very abundant. We also dove a few wrecks, the C55 and the C58. I was unable to get down to the C55 due to strong currents and had a long wait on the surface before being picked up by the boat. It wasn't planned, but it was good experience just the same. I didn't panic!
The C58 was just fantastic. I descended down to about 80 feet to this huge wreck laid out on the bottom. It looks like a freighter, just getting bigger and bigger. There are rays and barracudas swimming around, and then we go inside and navigate through the decks and hallways, through doors and little rooms. There are visible exits, and the ship had been stripped to allow safe penetration by average divers without wreck-diving certification. It was a truly amazing dive.
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