Chapter 749 Diving (1/2)
Chapter 749: Diving
Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
”I'm sorry, man, I'm very sorry. I shouldn't have questioned you. My perception is still too narrow. Obviously, there are many people who are great in this world.”
Brother Wolf looked at the owner of the boat and at his daughter. Then he reached out and touched his daughter's hair. He said slowly, ”I forgive you.”
”Thank you,” the owner of the boat said and then went back to his cabin in despair. He did not come out again the whole night.
After spending a night at sea as usual and seeing the sunrise on the sea, they returned to shore and left King Island for Melbourne by express boat.
Big Quinn, Godzilla, Hannah, and the others went to Melbourne to have a look around the tourist areas. Li Du, Hans, Brother Wolf, and Sophie followed Li Du and went to learn diving.
They signed up for a crash course in diving led by team coach David Max, a southern hemisphere diver and a celebrity in the diving industry.
The magnificent and vast sea had always beckoned to good men. The Australian ocean had particularly clear blue water, and a rich and colorful undersea world which attracted numerous divers to explore and linger in every year.
Many countries had a niche sport such as ice hockey in Canada, cricket in India, and table tennis in China. Australia was famous for its diving.
Diving could be divided into three modes: snorkeling, deep diving, and freediving.
Snorkeling was the simplest. It was a sport in which people floated on the surface of the water with the help of breathing tubes and fins.
Deep diving mainly referred to scuba diving, using compressed air bottles to breathe underwater.
With scuba, you could go deeper into the underwater world and see more wonderful ocean scenery than with snorkeling.
Diving was more complex than snorkeling. It required diving equipment and some diving skills. The diving coach needed to accompany the divers in the sea. If they wanted to explore more about diving, they could take a diving test.
These two types of diving were the most common and were relatively easy. However, what Li Du and Hans had to learn was a third type of diving called freediving.
Freedivers did not carry air with them and only went as far as possible through their own lung capacity and their ability to regulate their breath.
Comparatively speaking, freediving was the most demanding form of diving. It required not only rich diving experience but also great physical strength.
Li Du met half of the requirements. He had no diving experience, but he did have great physical strength.
Hans was regarded as useless in the sport. He was physically weak and had no rich diving experience.
The four signed up for the class, which together cost nearly 10,000 AUD, but it allowed them to meet the famous diving coach, David Max, in person.
He held two of the world's eight freediving world records and was among the top three and five among other freediving records.
After they signed up, the freediving assistant took them straight to Max's training ship.
David Max was a young white man. He was tall and handsome, about two meters tall and not much shorter than Godzilla.
He was in very good shape, streamlined for the sea with a muscular body and a charisma of his own as he stood in the bow of his ship with the wind in his hair.