From Kos without Freediving

This is a post by Jorg Jansen.

Greece is great! Beautiful country, nice people, good food. Too bad the underwater life is boring! I’ve been in the sea a few time, even did a boat trip, but nothing spectacular to mention. I even deleted the few underwater photos I made in the sea, because there was simple nothing to see besides water and a sandy bottom.

Don’t get me wrong! Visibility is great and if I had a line into the depth I probably would have had a great time together with some other freedivers. But as it turns out, I didn’t have that to my availability, so nothing fun to say about the sea.

I went to see Kos-divers to ask about some scuba diving. After the honest guy behind the counter asked my certification and I said I was a scuba instructor, he told me not to spend any money on scuba diving in Kos. Wow, that was honest and unexpected! He even told me that I could dive for free to see that there was nothing out there for me to see.

To clear things up: if you’ve never snorkeled or dived before, it will still be interesting! There are a lot of small fish swimming around, but if you are an intermediate or higher diver, don’t bother.

So, in the end my only real freediving I did was in the pool. I trained every day for a half hour and it was fun. Some breath hold crawls, some underwater laps and turns. All in all I’m very motivated to get back in the pool in the Netherlands and to Panheel where I can dive into the deep again next to a line!