Sister's Trip '16: Wrecks Galore

Now, I'm pretty sure Sarah and I were the subject of several bets made that day between the dive crew. We were slightly VIP and I feel like it was bit, 'let's see what we can get these girls to do.' Including, get them to dive inside 3 ship wrecks. So I have this fear/anxiety trigger about being in deep water with big boats...Yup, had to get over that one in about 2.3 seconds as I realized we were going into the hull of a sunken ship and there was no way to bail. Not to worry, though - I remembered my 'how not to die' training from the previous hour and it was all good. 

Sister's Trip '16: And Then This One Time

So, going back to the snuba adventure...After our snuba adventure, we were hanging out at the dive shop and Sarah met up with the owner, who had worked with Donnie on a project and knows Donnie's boss well. In the course of the conversation, Stuart told us to come on back the next day and do the discovery scuba and then SWIM WITH THE SHARKS in the afternoon. We got a little excited. 

So Sunday we got back on the Stuart Cove bus at 8am and headed back to the boats. Sarah is scuba certified, but I'm not so I did the discovery scuba class, which is basically a brief run down of how not to die, making sure you can breath with the regulator in a pool and then throwing you in the ocean with a certified guide. We'll come back to the certified guide part later. 

After my how not to die run down, we hopped on a fancy RIB boat to meet up with a dive boat already out. The boat does two dives and the group was in the middle of their first when we got out there. After some mis-adventure, we made it to the second dive site. And down we went! 

Sister's Trip '16: Downtown Nassau

After our afternoon beach beverages and a little nap, we headed downtown for church and dinner. We scoped out the church situation and had some time to kill, so we checked out downtown Nassau. Three cruise ships were in port and at least one of them was re-boarding, so it was a bit crazy and there were a lot of drunk people. Pretty much New Orleans on a Saturday night, but surrounded by nicer water and beaches. After (long) church, we went back down to the port for dinner at Lukka Kairi. We ate conch and it was tasty. 

Sister's Trip '16: Sarah's Dark and Stormy

Sarah's bucket list included drinking a dark and stormy on the beach in the Bahamas. So, we made that happen. After a long day on the water, we came back to the resort to relax and drink our dark and stormies on the beach. Bucket list --> check!

Sister's Trip '16: Step 3 - Swim ABOVE the Sharks

After Snuba, our boat took us over to the shark arena. The dive company has an area where they dive every afternoon to do a shark feed. The company is very into shark awareness and preservation. Although the sharks weren't going to be feed for another 3 hours, they still hang out in the area a lot. We got to get in the water above the sharks to check them out from the surface. The water was about 40 feet deep and it was hard to tell how far down the sharks were, but I would say they were pretty close to the bottom. After we all got back onto the boat, the captain threw some chum into the water and got the sharks to surface. Sarah and I figured that was the closest we would get to them, and that was ok...