After a week of teaching, a week of guiding followed, and for sure this was high time to swap over to my dry suit. And boy did it make a difference! Hmm nice n snug I was for the whole week, even doing three dives in Tiran at the end of November.

This week we had another real taste of winter too, with some fairly sizeable swell in the bay.. not so great for teaching at all. However we had some great, keen students, who just dealt with it all particularly well.

It was one of those weeks, where all good plans had to be changed, when we entered the water we realised that there was no way we could dare swim, even a little, underwater as the water was like thick fog! I reckon we had a metre visibility! Hehe. So plan B… pool on day two, forget the sea for a day. Unfortunately the pool isn’t its warmest at the moment. Usual teething problems with the heater and cover which always crop up just as winter begins and suddenly we have to crank it into action after a few months sat idle.

Well our students were stars, and we finally managed to catch up the time we lost, although it made our course just one of those non stop, ones, where we didn’t even get the chance to give everyone an afternoon off on the third day.

Our first open water dives were interesting to say the least. Again we had a nice swell so we got to practice a bit of a surf entry!! Of course this had stirred up the sand big time. It was quite effective in a moody kind of way… in clearer spots you could see the milky mists of stirred up sand rolling in and settling around the corals and sea grasses. Quite cool if we weren’t trying to get our newbie divers to manage a nice controlled 12M dive!

Today was back to normal Red Sea conditions again! Wooo Hooo! We had gin clear waters and flat calm around the whole of Sharm. Not a whisper of a breeze either, so it felt sooo much warmer between dives too. Four smiley happy Open Water Divers left this evening, and thank god they got to see what the Red Sea looks like on a normal day too.

For teaching, I am still in my wetsuit (it gets so annoying when the drysuit leaks every time you signal to a student to deflate, add air, etc. ) so was a little bit chilly (blue lips after each dive)! Ok I am a wuss, as it is still 25ºC so really not that drastically cold in the water.. but any breeze on the surface and it feels freeeeezing hehe.

So bring it on.. Christmas is just around the corner.. I don’t think we are about to get snow, (unlike the UK) but it is definitely feeling a little crisper out there these days.

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