Home Travel Diving Running Kids Mail us		Sunday 9 September 2001 Our next adventure is a diving day with Scuba St Lucia. Tommy, Tom, John and Hilary go underwater for the first time. After a rather tedious morning briefing things get more interesting in the afternoon when everyone dons wetsuits, BCs, regulators and tanks and head into the clear water of the marine park. Once in water Mia from Scuba St Lucia takes the divers through their drills. Mask clearing and regulator retrieval are essentials covered before the brave foursome head out across the sea bed. Although there are some problems with bouyancy and ear clearing Tommy shows how to do it and engages in some underwater rock and roll. An unusually fierce current cuts the dive short and the exhilarated novices soon end up back on Anse Chastenet beach. Earlier in the week Ross and Vicky have been tackling the more serious diving from Anse Chastenet. This is a great base to reach the best diving on the island. It is not the Red Sea but the fish and coral are plentiful and the diving outfit highly professional. Most of the diving here is either scenic reef dives or walls. The cliffs under the Pitons make great drop offs with water dropping off to hundreds of feet deep. The Pinnacles dive is a particularly scenic site with underwater pinnacles providing swim throughs and walls to explore. The boat ride back up the island to Castries makes a great end to the day's diving and provides John with another chance to view the geology of the island, this time from the sea. Click for more: