Our submarine was nothing other than a yellow submarine, which made our experience all the more authentic.
As we all boarded in an orderly fashion, our fellow submariners looked calm and composed, but we think that was just the British stiff upper lip syndrome, as we couldn't believe they could help but be as excited as we were.
Each couple had their own port hole - in our case we were 3 bears to a port hole - but there was still plenty of room.
Our safety boat led us out and told us when it was safe to dive. As we sank beneath the waves we could watch our submersion on the t.v. screens in front of our seats.
Once submerged our screen display changed to tell us important information about our dive, in particular how deep we were. We went down to around 30 metres (100 feet for those who like the old units).
It didn't take long for lots of lovely fish to appear. They were of all different sizes, shapes and colours and they were simply magical. We went past a couple of wrecks which had been moved to our dive site to encourage fish to colonise the area.
Aboard our support boat was a diver who swam round the submarine feeding the fish. He was very friendly and waved at us every time he passed. We were enthralled when he passed us hanging on to a huge ray who clearly enjoyed his food and wasn't going to miss out on a single scrap.
We loved every minute of our dive and, as we came back up to the surface, we sang along lustily to, what other than, the song Yellow Submarine, piped over the P.A. system.
We all got dive certificates at the end, which we are proudly displaying in our Bear Cave. We'd recommend this experience to anyone.
Lots of love George, Yorkie and Pedro xxx
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