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Trans Snorkelling

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By eveannessant

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On Sunday with the assistance of my partner and friends, all of whom are ex SCUBA divers, we put on a snorkelling 'taster session' at one of the swimming pools in Birmingham. This happened at a private session hired from the City Council leisure dept, by Birmingham LGBT under the name of Moseley Shoals. Moseley is a suburb of Birmingham for those of you who don't know, and Moseley Shoals have been in place for quite a while. It only costs £4 a session to swim, after the first session which is free, and it's open to anyone who identifies as LGBT.

I had offered to do snorkelling for them, with a possibility of continuing on to SCUBA later, the offer was very gratefully accepted. The group are very friendly and obviously open minded, and many of them tried ot snorkelling for the first time, along with some of my trans friends. The session was greeted with enthusiasm, and it turned out to be very successful. I've been asked to repeat the session next Sunday, and then to do fortnightly lessons.

Birmingham LGBT have an aim of involving more LGBT people in sport, as well as raising general awareness of the needs of LGBT people in the Birmingham area.

Cheers,

Eve

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    Emma

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    Sounds like a lot of fun! I've also scuba dived, in Mexico, California, and Hawaii, as well as snorkeling of course. Always a blast but be sure to tell them to wear a t-shirt when outside snorkeling or risk a nasty sunburn on the back!

    Hugs,

    Emma

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    KarenPayne

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    I still get chills looking back at my scuba qualification (18 years old at the time) the ocean was cold and stormy weather eek. 

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    eveannessant

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    Sounds like either the Pacific or north east Atlantic.............It's often like that in the UK, but then the consolation is that there are some lovely wrecks to dive on. I haven't SCUBA dived since transition, but I was a senior Instructor in one of the UK's diving agencies. Diving is not all cold and stormy - even in the UK !, I have an ambition to one day dive topless in warm waters, probably the caribbean. Don't know why, perhaps I'd feel liberated.................

    Cheers,

    Eve 

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