Seeing videos and photos of the beauty of the coral forest and its underwater inhabitants, it feels like wanting to dive too. So you can see directly with your own eyes. I started to find out how to make it happen.

Apparently, a diver whose cool language is diver, must have a certificate or license from one of the diving schools. It's different from snorkeling, as long as we have the tools we can do it anywhere. Certainly only on the surface and edges.

No one is allowed to dive if they do not meet these requirements. There are also people who live near the beach doing this, but now they are starting to have licenses, because now diving has become a tourist attraction too. Many foreign tourists enjoy our country's underwater, Indonesia. As a buddy, you should have a license.

Like in a mountain, there is a mountain guide certification that is carried out by APGI. For the sea, there are many kinds of schools that issue diving certifications or licenses, there are NAUI from America, there are Possi, Padi, SSI and many more.

On a friend's recommendation, I learned from NadipatiDC.id or Nadipati Scuba Dive Center licensed at www.NAUI.org which was conducted for 4 days for open water beginner classes with a maximum depth limit of 18 meters.

The first day, the theory starts with the introduction of the name of the tool, the depth and risk, the terms used, the logic of thinking related to physics lessons in our early school days, to the simplest basic rescue. How much nitrogen is in the body, is related to how much longer we can dive.

The second day, practicing in the swimming pool how to breathe "with the mouth", removing the mask and cleaning in the water, learning to enter at a depth of 1 meter, 2 meters and 4 meters, I'm confused. Because we usually live on land, we need good coordination, stay calm and don't panic. Learn to breathe slowly, take a deep breath from your mouth and exhale a deep breath from your mouth too. Serenity is really needed. Feels like meditation. I think, divers should find it easier to do meditation. That's how I feel.
Besides that, we also have to always pay attention to our condition, the deeper our ears can get excruciatingly painful if we don't do equalizing. There are three ways, first by squeezing the nose, while exhaling through the nose as well, like we are boarding a plane. Have you ever felt that your ears feel deaf? Well similar to that. The second way is to open the mouth and move the jaw, the third way is to swallow. But if it's in water, choose the first method.
What I caught, apart from being like meditation, a diver has to "really care" about his dive companion called a buddy. Starting before going into the water, first check the tools and their functions, this is not just the tools that we use ourselves, including those of our diving friends, the point is checking each other. How much is the contents of the tube, is it correct or not used? Everything is functioning properly and we must know where the ballast is used, the location of the spare air regulator, all the accessories used must know the position of each other properly. This is especially useful when unwanted problems occur deep down, we know what to do without frantically looking for what to let go.
We don't want to be far from our friends, at most as much as our hands, so that if something happens we can immediately tap our diving partner on the shoulder.
Not much different from in the mountains, in the sea "more" care and cooperation is needed because of the greater risk associated with visibility and sound signals that we can hardly hear. Why must it always be close together? Apart from the above reasons, in the sea we can only pat friends on the shoulders, talk with our eyes, read what is written with special tools and by hand code only.

Once we lose our buddy, in a minute we look right and left and can't find it, then we have to go up slowly. It has become an agreement that was agreed upon together.
Lower currents can drag us far away without us knowing it, as well as the joy of seeing beauty can make us forget to pay attention to the distance from the buddy. Still, there is no need to panic if you miss or get separated. That agreement is what we must remember.
The forest and everything in it in the sea are beautiful, colorful fish, seaweed, beautiful corals. Actually it is likely to be poisonous, so we have to wear closed clothes, besides that, to maintain body temperature and buoyancy.
Yes, all creatures on earth, no matter how small, are always armed to defend themselves like slot online. A kind of rose is beautiful, but it has thorns. When used by them, when they feel threatened. So don't touch it carelessly.
One surprising fact, so far we know about the ferocity of sharks in films. Turns out that is not true, sharks are also friendly. My conclusion is, any animal will not attack us if we do not disturb it, or it is hungry.
Learn to float in a deep, flat horizontal body position and maintain it. We really are required to coordinate our own bodies, as well as the environment. It is a little difficult as land people who are accustomed to standing and walking upright.
If you have experienced it, it turns out that doing diving or diving is not as easy as imagined. Calmness, awareness, care, logical thinking, understanding the risks, all become one tumpek blek we must master because we need it in the water.
So it is "necessary" to learn, to have knowledge so you don't panic easily. Panic is the main path to disaster. Prepare yourself armed with complete equipment, enough knowledge so that we can solve and know what to do if something goes wrong. Just as we are on the mountain, this law applies in all places and circumstances.

The third day, it's time to really practice at sea. We headed to Pramuka Island, one of the islands in the Thousand Islands. This island is also often used by other institutions or schools for trainning and scuba dive exams. There must be fear and worry. Start attaching the BCD (Bouyancy Control Divice) or balance vest to attach to the tube, install the regulator and check all functions and how much it contains.
We started to go down and act, of course, the briefing first, please repeat a little theory that was done in the pond yesterday. Learning to submerge yourself, really have to remember which button so that the body can sink, when you get to the depths trying to find a balance point while practicing some of the other theories that have been taught. Diving is done 2 times. In the afternoon, I'm busy, writing test box. Hahaha, it feels like school is repeating the memory of physics lessons, about the bias of light, what color first disappears in the depths of the sea, the density of sea water and yes, around that. We must know the basics.
The fourth day, in the morning you have to be ready to dive again, while you also practice the exam in the water. Because I happened to be with a friend who was doing an advanced class, it was not bad so I also got a wreck dive session (visiting a shipwreck, namely the Praja Ship) at a depth of 16 meters. Luckily I always take sides hahaha. It should be for a class like me not to get it.

Well, but because the advanced ones had to take a rescue exam for a diving friend who was fainted, I played the role of a victim. Raised from the depth and must be dragged to the edge. It's really exciting, including the fun of getting hit by the waves. Sea sickness hihihi. But the struggle paid off with the beauty of the corals and fish in the depths.
Indonesia is indeed incredibly beautiful, both in the mountains, on the coast and even in the sea. I heard a story from my instructor Hendrata Yudha, a few months ago there was a student with twin mothers and 70 years old, a Jakarta resident, who works as a PAUD teacher. Really crazy, at an old age still interested in learning to dive. Young ones, don't want to lose. Come on, enthusiasm for learning, age is not an obstacle. So as not to panic in facing the situation. Interested in enjoying the beauty under the sea? Immediately visit one of the diving schools that issue certificates, so that we can travel safely and pleasantly.
"Panic due to lack of knowledge is the main path to disaster".