Diving in Okinawa

I visited Okinawa to attend the 58th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine. On the first day, My colleague, Dr. Kawamata, and I made speeches about our research; one was the effect of small heart size on diagnostic value of exercise scintigraphy and the other, the association of subendocardial ischemia and myocardial fibrosis in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. We were satisfied with our presentations in English.

Next day, two of us and Dr. Sakai (or ChiEko) enjoyed scuba diving in Chatan. This was my first diving in almost 2 decades; I got a diving license in the late 1990s. I did not feel any fear before the scuba diving, although I have forgotten almost all the knowledge about scuba diving.

To tell the truth, the diving was not something like a dream since I had difficulties controlling my position ー I unintentionally repeated ups and downs in the sea. It took 45 minutes to have the first diving, which I felt longer that it was. On the second diving, I found myself got used to diving a little and I really had a fun time.

I am not sure if I will be able to scuba dive again in the future, but, if I have a chance, I won't hesitate to give it a try.

P.S.

I was in the center in Video. Our instructor told us that the green solid coral is well known for the shape similar to Okinawa island.