La Aguja (means "The Needle" in english) is a diving place that belongs to the natural park named Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, near to the city of Santa Marta. Currents are very strong in the open areas, so you have to stay near the walls of the mountains that end into the sea. And the water is very cold -approximately 21 degrees Celsius-, considering that the place is in the tropical zone and at the coast of the southern Caribbean Sea. Visibility is alright, and there are supposed to be many sharks, but I didn't see any this time.
The diving experience was more than OK. My fiancé happened to be my buddy in this dive, and she had lots of fun. More importantly, we finally had beaten the bad memories of a bad diving experience of the past, and now all she wants is to be diving with me almost anywhere, and almost anytime. Since I am an OWSI-PADI Instructor, her happiness and very good underwater skills made me not only happy, but very proud of my work teaching her.
While I assumed the role of instructor, I never forgot to lead her way into SCUBA diving, and we have many confined water sessions (in the pool) behind us. It worked. We both enjoyed diving, followed all the safety rules naturally, and had lots of fun while diving at the same time. So maybe the video that follows may not be full of interesting marine species, but it has the highest value for both of us. We only left our worries and many bubbles behind, as we were supposed to. Until next time, Thilo.
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Hola
My name is Marcela and I'm from Colombia. I'm glad to find a complete blog dedicated to diving in Colombia. I couldn't find out if you’re Colombian or not. Either way let me say keep up the good work!
I'm an advanced diver myself and your post about diving with your fiancé really touched my heart because I want my boyfriend to discover what "DIVING" really means as well. Hopefully he will star his training very soon so we can enjoy our underwater paradise together. I did a drysuit training in Scotland about 3 years ago. And now that I’ve read your post about Tota, I want to go tomorrow! Do you do trips to tota or any other diving destination in Colombia? I’m very interested in your info.
I’ve just started writing my blog about Colombia. Here it is for you to check out… and don’t forget to leave me a comment =) http://colombia-travel-marcela.blogspot.com/. It would be great if we could link our blogs back.
Abrazos
Marcela
Hi Marcela: This blog has an entire version in spanish as well, you may find a LINK to the spanish version at the right column above, underneath the SCUBA flags. Well, I can recommend you a few PADI divecenters in Bogotá that do travel to Tota. I will go to Tota, but not soon, and I always associate with some Dive center since they have the boats and special wet - or drysuits needed for this SCUBA experience. I don't own a Scubacenter, but I am a PADI SCUBA Instructor and can teach 9 specialties (DEEP, NIGHT, NITROX DRY SUIT, ALTITUDE, etc.) so I only organize trips for large groups. On the other hand, while I'm sure you will like Tota not only as a diving place but as a very beautiful (and inexpensive) place to make tourism on general, as SCUBA INSTRUCTOR I DO NOT recommend that your fiancé starts diving there (as a first diving experience), since it is much more difficult than diving in warm tropical waters, for example. However, many SCUBA instructors do the open water part (after completion of the confined waters skills in the pool) of the OPEN WATER DIVER COURSES there, but it's much more difficult, and many students may assume that scubadiving is too difficult or too technical, and become discouraged and never dive again. If you want more INFO just write me an e-mail, I can give you a few hints if you wish. Greetings, Thilo.
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