1、一起来听听Nicola讲述在澳大利亚水肺潜水前的准备和介绍课上一位学员的状况。Scuba Diving 水肺潜水Todd: Nicola, you were talking to us the other day that you went diving in Australia?Nicola: Thats right I did.Todd: Wow, so what was it like?Nicola: Well, actually it was quite scary, to be honest. When I first started I did an introductory co
2、urse, which was just maybe like two days. And so they just sent you out with all of the equipment, put you in the sea, and guided you, but then when I did the real course we started in the swimming pool, which was fine and it was all great fun, although there were two men on my course who completely
3、 freaked out and had to leave.Todd: Oh!Nicola: Yeah! So that was fine but then they took us out to sea which was a bit different. Yeah, because they made us set up our own equipment, I mean they still checked us and everything so we didnt die, but we had to put on our own equipment. We had a diving
4、buddy who were we with, and I was with my friend Graham, who I was traveling with anyway, and we went down into the sea. We went down maybe fifteen meters. And they always say like dont panic just keep breathing normally and everything. But I did kind of panic a bit.Todd: Oh, no!Nicola: So then I ro
5、se to the surface really quickly, which you know, youre not supposed to do in diving. So I went up quite quickly. Luckily we werent deep enough to do any damage but my diving buddy Graham was having a great time down there looking at shipwrecks and didnt even notice that I was missing.Todd: What a t
6、errible guy!Nicola: Yeah, I know. so, then.Todd: Wow! Did they fail him? I hope he failed the course!Nicola: No, he passed. He paid enough money. He passed. But it meant that I couldnt go diving for the rest of the day cause I had gone down quite deep, so that was a shame, but.Todd: Thats terrible.
7、But you didnt hurt yourself, you didnt come up too fast?Nicola: No, I was fine in the end, but it was a shame because that was the end of my diving day. But we had a few more days to do it.Todd: So now you are comfortable diving? You dont freak out anymore?Nicola: I dont freak out anymore, but I couldnt go diving now on my own because it has been so long. Yeah!英语单词：freak out 崩溃；紧张害怕