No for Scuba Luben?

Yeah! I've just finished my Open Water Diver certification today here on Utila island in Honduras. I arrived on Monday morning and signed up at the Bay Islands College of Diving on a recommendation from a chap I met in Costa Rica, it turned out to be a good choice. The course costs around $200 but the school offers a room in their apartments for only $3 a night so it works out pretty cheap.


My instructor and I after my final qualifying dive.

I started my course straight away on Monday and finished all my theory and exams that afternoon. I was lucky in that the school wasn´t very busy when I signed up so I got my own private instructor, Jen. She allowed me to do all my confined dives on Tuesday morning and then head out to the reef that afternoon. I then had the last of my supervised reef dives this morning and got signed off. So now tomorrow I'm heading out to deeper water in search of whale sharks!

And we got to swim with dolphins during our surface time between dives today...

The whole experience has been pretty awesome. The island is very laid back and the Caribbean English they speak is so melodic. The place isn´t how I pictured it as there is no beach front but rather a series of dive centres and lodges cover the waterfront with their piers being the only access to the water. Still, it looks like a place I can spend some quality time in.