Air is an element too subtle and impalpable to afford protection. This cosy sensation may also have to do with subconscious reminiscence of the amniotic liquid in the maternal womb. Nonetheless, I realise that everything I have said up to now is only a posteriori rationalisation, justification of my desire to dive. The stark and simple truth is that I derive immense joy from it and under water I feel really good and completely at ease. Subsequently, I also earned the advanced certificate.
Many hard corals are extraordinarily light and seem to imitate plant forms.
Eight years and nearly five hundred dives in the seas around the world have taught me many things that have led me to the conviction that underwater sports are indisputably within reach of the visually handicapped, providing they are undertaken with the necessary precaution and attention, learning, wherever necessary, from the experience of others to avoid any minor or major difficulties that may arise. In my comings and goings around the globe, I have met over five hundred underwater guides, none of whom had ever dived with a blind person or taken any courses to prepare them for it. The joint dives constitute the practical part of the course, a way to reinforce the theory classes. I have beenable, in this way, to award around fifteen guides in different areas of the world certificates to guide blind scuba divers, in addition to the nearly fifty awarded to Italian and foreign instructors who have attended the courses we regularly deliver in Italy. Trained guides Proper training for underwater guides is both a very important safety factor and a way of enhancing the very positive role they play in the blind person's enjoyment of his dive.