I'd Never Be Able Too

I really wanted to learn. Maybe it was because of that scene in one of the very first James Bond films, where a beautiful actress comes out of the sea looking fabulous, with oxygen bottles on her back - I could see myself looking just like her. So, two years ago I booked a holiday which included a week’s intensive course. On the first day of the course I was incredibly excited. First we had two hours of theory, and then we went into the sea to put it into practice. But as soon as I went under the water I discovered that I suffered from claustrophobia.1do it. After

about half an hour I gave up. Every evening for the rest of my holiday I had to listen to my scuba-diving classmates talking about all the wonderful things they had seen that day on their diving excursions.2join in the

conversation was very frustrating.

I still love swimming and snorkelling, but I think that I have to accept that3scuba-dive.

Bea, USA