DIVE 1 – Milln Reef – Great Barrier Reef – Cairns, Queensland, Australia
My first dive ever was at the Milln Reef on the Great Barrier reef in Australia. I had such a great time traveling Australia and thanks to my girlfriend registered with Pro Dive Cairns to get my open water dive certification. Check out my Pro Dive Cairns Review if you haven’t already.
We left early in the morning to get out on the reef. Our first dive was at 10:45 am, and we started the dive doing surface skills. You have to do four open water dives with a group and an instuctor before you are fully certified. In order to be certified we had to complete four open water dives and complete the skills. The skills we had to complete on the first dive were buddy check, entry, buoyancy check, controlled decent, underwater tour, ascent, safety stop and exit we also did a few dive flexible skills including cramp removal (seeing how to remove cramps from your legs), tired diver tow (pushing or pulling a diver about 30 feet), snorkel/regulator exchange, remove/replace scuba, remove/replace weights. We did all the surface skills first and then went down. It was so excitting to go down for the first time and I snapped a shot of us going down (they rent underwater cameras on the boat, and you can also rent them in town for the whole weekend which is much cheaper)
That is the first group going down. I was not able to get a lot of pictures on my first dive as I was trying NOT TO DIE, ok I was not really that scared but for the first few dives I was focusing on doing the skills and really taking in all there is to see underwater! It was so exciting to be underwater, it is a whole new world and sometimes I just forgot to take pictures. But don’t worry, I took a lot of pictures over the next 27 dives (a lot of those dives I got for free )
During my first dive I saw a Blue spotted sting ray, a Giant Clam, a Sea Cumcumber, and a sand perch. I have added some pictures below to give you an idea of what I saw.
Check my future posts for the picture of the Blue Spotted Sting ray (I got a nice close-up) and lots more underwater pictures.
The first dive was awesome, it is amazing to be able to see what goes on in the Ocean and actually breathe under water. I was a bit nervous at first (I have almost died a few times in the water) but once I calmed down and breathed normally it was really easy. We were underwater for about 26 minutes and got to see quite a bit in that time. Our next dive was at 2:44pm. You can read about it in my next post 
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