Im in the middle of my advanced open water course just now, did two dives today, got three tomorrow, including a night dive! When I’m finished I’ll be qualified to dive to 30m! I was doing a navigation dive today and I saw a nemo fish. I’ve seen lots of others but can’t remember their names. I am desperate to see a shark but I think I’ll be really lucky if I do tomorrow. I’m with a different group of people and a different instructor.

I’m doing a deep dive tomorrow at 7am. We’ve been told that we might get nitrogen narcosis. That’s when the pressure makes you act like you’re drunk and you can’t think straight and start acting weird. I think they time you doing maths problems on the surface and then you have to do them again after 30m and see how long it takes you. It will take me longer if I’m “narked".

Ive just finished my diving course, and absolutely LOVED it. Must be up there with the highlights of my trip. In the last two days I did four dives, each was about 40mins and we just didn’t want to go back up!!

Anyway, they run an advanced open water course which enables you to get more experience, and have more fun, and makes it better for you if you want to go and dive on your own with a buddy (which I am able to do). I just can’t decide whether to do it or not! I have just enough time before my flight to Bangkok, and it costs about 90 quid which is as cheap as anywhere else is the world, as they give a discount cos I did my open water course with them. I just want to do it sooo much.

Aargh can’t decide. I know I won’t get another opportunity as good as this to do it, and it will make me ore confident diving on my own, I don’t think four dives is quite enough.

Im going to Koh Tao tomorrow evening, taking a night bus down the coast then a boat at 6.30am in the morning. It’s all arranged with the Diving company, so I don’t have to worry about transport or accommodation for the next five days, which is ACE!