My very first diving expereince. I had such a great time learning to dive. In fact my instructor said I was "a natural". Evidently I was very relaxed underwater and used up very little air. Kingsley had to surface about 10-15 minutes before me on every dive. On my second and third dive I had more air than my instructor at the end of the dive. He told me that in 16 years of teaching he had never seen anything like it! Here is what he wrote after I graduated my PADI course:

One of my favorite activities while in the Maldives was a sunset dolphin cruise. I cant resist saying yes to anything that offers a chance of seeing dolphins. The resort stated there was 95% chance we would see dolphins on the cruise, needless to say I was very excited.

A funny story, there was about 10 of us on the boat and at one point the captain said something about how if you tap on the floor of the boat and whistle the dolphins will be attracted to the boat. I am pretty sure he was kidding but there was a lady on the boat who took his recommendation very seriously and kept tapping her feet and whistleing the entire (2 hour boat trip. You can actually hear her in parts of the video. Although it was somewhat annoying at the time, I have to give her credit, we did see lots of dolphins which was fantastic!

I kept leaning further and further over the side of the boat to get closer to them, in fact I think a small part of me was hoping to "accidently" fall in. They are so beautiful and graceful. My favorite was a mama and her baby who came to play in the boat wake for a while. At one point she rolled on her side and looked right at me. It was awesome!