We had two dives planned. The first was to be between 25-30 feet, a shallow dive to adjust gear and get a taste of what was down there. Dydynski is author of Lonely Planet's Colombian edition, but he can't be a scuba diver. Not with such a skimpy understatement about diving in Colombia. It is amazing.
Scuba diving means leaving the world behind for a short time.
It means entering a paradoxical place where man does not naturally belong. Unable to speak or move about with the same agility as on land, we are dependant on our need for air and limited by time. We enter another world, and observe hundreds of other life forms frolicking in all their splendour. All is left behind as we explore the mystifying underwater world, that we still know so little about. Apparently the Caribbean Sea was once part of the Pacific Ocean, and was separated when the Central American Isthmus rose about 38 million years ago.