Up at 6:30, for 7 am dive briefing. Had coffee and fruit before the first dive.Loaded gear ( the Brits call “kit”) into boat, headed out to sea. After a 20 min. boat ride, got another briefing on the dive site, and got the signal to put on dive gear. Fins, mask on head or neck, BC with tank and buckle all the straps, big tanks, 90s (not like those little baby tanks they use in Japan), check regulator, depth gauges and check air supply, 3000 psi. Manuvered cautiously to the side of the boat. Mask secured over eyes and nose. Waiting for the captain to call “go”, reminds me of the thing I like least about the dive process, those few minutes that you are all geared up, ready to enter the water, the gear is so cumbersome. We are to make a backward roll off the side of the boat, not my favorite water entry, a little disorienting when you first hit the water. So hands over mask, so it won’t come off when you enter the water. My turn, “GO”. backward I tumble into the water. Refreshing cool water, begin to let our air from my BC and begin the decent into another world.  The reef is in pretty good shape, lovely iridescent sea life is abundant. That lovely feeling of weightlessness as you float over hills of coral, that’s the part I love.