ZENOBIA DIVE or my best day of the year

What is the best day? And for what period of time is it the best: for a week, for a month, and maybe for a year? .. Probably, it will still go about the best day of the year. You, my guest, confess to the mind at once come some joyful milestone events, like a wedding, funeral birthday, a child's journey into the first class ... But do not be afraid my dear guest, although all this is fine, but the speech will go not on this. It's about rest. Stop, stop, reader, do not go away! This is not a report about the hotel and about what I ate for dinner. There will be quite a bit of text and a few pictures about the adventures under the water, about diving on the ferry "Zenobia" sunk in the 70s,

If you, my friend, have not gone to read the recipes and see the photo of cats, then we are both of the same blood. And you understand that someone who decided to get on a wreck, you need some list of rubber and metal appliances and ... a boat.

Smart people try to solve these issues in advance. Of course, I tried to follow their example and tried to contact the owners of the local dive clubs. However, they all spat in chorus on my inquiries from the big bell tower, well, or from the lighthouse ...

Then the mind came to the decision to surrender to the will of the case, and to spite everyone to go to the first available kiosk with a sign PADI.
On the first day of vacation, the tourist moves along the hot southern streets a bit uncomfortable. Flight, the consequences of psycho trams from communication at work, acclimatization, not knowledge of local prices and customs, etc. Well, therefore, on the first day, as you know, it's better not to buy anything. However, some signs on the white facades look pretty attractive, and tourists eyes are covered with a pink veil and he pulls his paws to the sweet ...

However, the vigilant guard of the family hearth in time reminds the guest that in the hotel room is all free of charge and not nearly worse.

The first house with the inscription PADI looked something like this

In the office sat a cool Greek Cypriot. There is in the world a cohort of sunny good-natured people who are disposing themselves at first sight. So this Greek is one of them

The owner of the dive club is so charming that I immediately want to give him all the euros available, and the guard of the family hearth in addition.

The favorite word of every real Cypriot is relax.

His axioms:

1. Relax, friend, you are in Cyprus!
2. If you have a Cypriot friend, it's forever!

So, having experienced all the power of the charm of our new friend, I gave him almost everything that I earned by overwork. We did not hesitate to pay a dive on the ferry "ZENOBIA".

What is Zenobia, or who is it?

A little info.

This is an ancient queen, beautiful and intelligent, and courageous. But unfortunately, in the opponents she had Ancient Rome. And these guys at one time defeated smart, beautiful and brave men like Spartacus and Ganiball. What could a girl oppose to them, even a queen!

They caught a girl, caught a beautiful girl, and walked along the streets of Rome to the chains. Well. barbarians. that from them to take.

In honor of this girl was called a great ship. It looked something like this

But something of this wonderful ship went wrong, and he began to fall on his side. As they told me, the captain began to ask for the port, but the dispatcher told him:

Hey baddy you would close off the fairway, get up here and stand by.

He waited to agree, but something went wrong again and the ferry ~ ~for applause~~ sank.

Our new friend at one time dived on Zenobia and got out of there everything that badly lies. Especially bad were the boxes of whiskey on the ship.

Years passed. The ferry quietly lay at the bottom.

But then we arrived :-) We decided to look and touch it.

As was agreed, we arrived at 6 o'clock in the morning to the stall. Imagine our surprise when the owner told us that his back aches and he entrusts our destinies to his friend, who is called Mister Fiction.

I must say that we did not regret it at all. This friend is better more than two girlfriends! The dude's name is Mario. He's just a lighter, a fan of his business. Perhaps, one of the best dive guides that I met.

So it looks like a standard dive bot. We went on a former fire ship, which used to go on the Thames. He was sold to Cyprus after the write-off.

Usually before diving, I feel a kind of jim. How will I breathe underwater? Did I properly attach the balon to the waistcoat? Is the air in the cylinder good? Probably it's because I'm suspicious.

This video shows the place somewhere in the middle of shipboard. It seems that the guide wanted to make sure of the normal well-being of the wards, so he forced us to sit for a while, calm down and chat with the fish.
Finally, the guide looked at us, calmed down and we moved smoothly towards the stern of the ship.

Very impressive place in the pipe area. There the prospect opens, the transverse farm goes down - you understand and feel the depth.

We turn around and go back along the side of the ferry

Time under water runs fast. Guide constantly requests gestures:
— You have everything ok?
We respond in a standard way:
— All OK
Again, a gesture follows:
— The volume of air?
— 70 bar
— We go to the rope
And the first dive is over. We hang out at the decompression stop. It is short - only 5 minutes.

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