One day, Shilpin asked me in class why don’t I go for a trip in Rameswaram. Ameya and I got excited and the class time was spent in planning my holiday trip. And here I was, diving in Rameswaram on the 1st of December.
The spots Shilpin had given were on the eastern side (9.2977800, 79.3267252) of the island and near the lighthouse at the north-eastern tip (9.3172999, 79.3316478) of the island but when we wnet there we found out that the water on the eastern side was extremely dirty due to the temple waste. Daily, hundreds of people flocked in and out of the sea for some religious purposes and the cloth and waste that they left behind drifted and covered the eastern shore. As we walked northward it became slightly better but there were still a lot of boats that it would make diving in the area a little dangerous especially because I was alone. We looked a little more on the map and a found a diving centre on the western side of the map. So we had decided to go there the next day. Although we couldn’t find the dive centre the water was excellent on the other side (maybe not the best they got in Rameswaram as it wasn’t the time of the year when the water became crystal clear in that area, but excellent compared to the Pondy waters). And that was where I made the two dives of the trip. We had found a resort instead of the dive centre and the people in the resort told us that it wasn’t the season so no one was currently diving so after all I ended up diving alone as I had planned.
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