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Personal Narrative: Scuba Diving In Hawaii
Scuba Diving In Hawaii

I was always amazed and interested in the sea. I also like scuba diving with my dad and my older brother, Benjamin. The last time I went scuba diving was two years ago in French Polynesia. Now, I was going to dive in Hawaii! I saw things that I was totally not expecting to see.
We had gone on a vacation to Hawaii for the summer. Four days before we left Hawaii, my dad told me.“ I’m going scuba diving with your brother in two days, you want to come?”
I was so excited to go scuba diving again, and this time it was going to be two dives, not only one! I was happy to say,“Yes!” My dad called the store and told them that I was going diving with too. Unfortunately, my dad said that since I didn’t have the Open Water (Level of category for scuba diving) I had to do a couple of tests in the pool. I was fine with that as long as I could go scuba diving.
The next day I woke up at 6:30 a.m. I was so excited and stressed at the same time, but I knew that it was too late to go back. In the car, my dad reminded me everything.
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Once we were at the bottom of the water I was so happy to finally see all those fishes and corals again. I checked if I had put everything correctly, once I did, we started to explore. First, we went towards an “underwater arch”, we saw tons of eels, they were swimming in between corals. When we went under the arch, there were some huge sea urchins along with beautiful starfishes. It was very cool being under the arch, there was even a little cave inside it, but it was too small to get in. When we got through the arch, I asked in “sign language” if we could go up on top of the arch. My instructor said ok. We found a little area with no coral that we could go on. Being on top was like being the king of the sea, you could see a lot from up there. I decided to “jump” off the arch. My dad was filming me with the GoPro, so I did it like if I was jumping off a diving

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