decompression

How do I put the experience of diving into words? How do I describe how it feels to be 18m underwater and have a fish 5cm away from me staring intently and curiously into my mask trying to figure out just what the hell this big black mutated sea cucumber is doing bubbling all over the place. Or finding a rare blind shrimp under an old tyre and holding it in my hand. Or looking up from the bottom and seeing hundreds and hundreds of brilliantly coloured fish going about their business above me. One of the other dive groups even saw a group of mellonhead whales! Whales! Off the coast of MALAYSIA!! Who would've thought!

Not the end. Only the beginning