Feel like a fish...

We stayed 3 days in Dive India, Havelock, Andaman. We went for scuba diving on 23rd Dec, 2009. Couple of us know swimming. Rest of us know the basics of swimming. We had breakfast around 7:00AM, Picked the dive jacket and fins according to our size, travelled in dongi about 40minutes to reach the dive spot. On the way, in the dongi, dive instructor explained about the procedures, signals, dos and don'ts etc. Reached the spot, fitted our cylinders, etc and were ready for the dive :) . Dive instructor, David, gave instructions, and asked us to practice it in the shallow water. We practiced to breathe from the cylinder, to clean the goggles, to clean the mouth piece, etc. for 5 minutes. Once we were ready, David asked us to touch the ground with finger, keeping our body flat, move like crawling only with fingers and flipping the fins. He took care of inflating and deflating the air in the jacket to maintain the buoyancy. Actually, there are lot of calculations behind it. You need to know all those if you want to go deeper, say 20meters depth, and above. There are dive certification courses to know about those in detail. We reached 5 to 7 meters depth only.
Raffi, Sunil, and Elango went in one batch and Maruthu, and Sampath went in other batch. David asked us to clear the air pressure on the ear regularly by swallowing saliva. Coral reef area started just few meters ahead in the water. Saw lot of beautifull corals, colurfull fishes, Blue fish, Yellow and Black fish (Clown Fish), Green fish, Sea urchins, rose colored star fish, groups of fishes, etc. David asked us told the boulder corals if we need any support and asked us not to touch any other corals or any other creatures over there. It was a nice experience seeing the marine life under water. Didn't feel any difficulties. One of the mates had a calf muscle catch, but within manageable limits. We were under the sea for 30 minutes, felt like a fish, and enjoyed the marine life.