30th. December 2013 – 17:30: Rookie finds his sea-legs

The sun was setting, its golden light cradled the surface of the pool where it all started so tenuously three days ago. Only now, it trickled peacefully onto the faces of those that remained leisurely paddling their feet in their reflection.

More paperwork, a photograph and that was all there was to it; time to savour the moment and understand that you are now a member of that rare species; discontent to walk among the ranks on terra firma, we had returned to the sea as our ancestors did, to live, if for a brief moment, amongst creatures of the depths.

A cliché perhaps, but you hope that you will be fortunate enough to bask in the magnificence of the last remaining wilderness within the limits of what the technology will permit. You want to stay longer, go deeper, hone your skills to perfection and push farther into where few have dared, but you here that whisper over your shoulder from the past:

At Delphi it roars

“Know thyself” and “thy limit”

But I speak fish now