I've always wanted to go scuba diving. When I was a kid I used to pretend I had scuba gear and stay under as long as possible.
I love the ocean, I've never been scuba diving though.
Scuba skills
Scuba skills are the skills required to dive safely using self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, (scuba). Most of these skills are relevant to both open circuit and rebreather scuba, and many are also relevant to surface-supplied diving. Those skills which are critical to the safety of the diver may require more practice than is usually provided during training to achieve reliable long-term proficiency
Some of the skills are generally accepted by recreational diver certification agencies as necessary for any scuba diver to be considered competent
scuba diving at the Red Sea port city of Eilat, and began to reconsider his future: "I wondered again, as I had wondered when I first went to Oxford, whether I really wanted to become a doctor. I had become very interested in neurophysiology, but I also loved marine biology; . . . But I was 'cured' now; it was time to return to medicine, to start clinical work, seeing patients in London."
Early life Medical school.
Sacks began medical school at Oxford