This
makes SCUBA diving even more fun, if that's at all possible. During the
training you learn how to make dives between 60-130' (Open Water divers
can only dive to 60'), how to navigate underwater - even at night, how
to recover lost objects, and learning a lot more about what lives - and
plays! - underwater.
Here's
a great shot of Herb's that shows some of the 'landscape' you can see underwater.
This one looks like something out of 'Sea Hunt'.
REALLY
large and often make you feel like you're one of those plastic divers in
someone's aquarium. The Morays aren't nearly as ferocious as their reputation
- They always remind me of puppies. You surely don't want to irritate one
as their bite IS all it's cracked up to be. But if you treat them with
respect, I've seen people hand-feed them tidbits of fish. And they always
seem willing to poke their heads out and see what's up.
Here's
another shot Herb took of a GORGEOUS piece of Fan Coral. You have to be
careful when swimming around or your fins will accidentally kick pieces
like this off, killing them, and that would be a real loss to all divers.
And
to close, here are some shots of Sea Lions. These guys are a lot
of fun and seem to feel that divers are provided for their amusement. For
instance, poor Steph was often surrounded by 5 or 6 of them. These are
all females - the Bulls don't play with divers much from what I've seen
and when they come near you it's best to move on. We figured that since
usually you have one Bull and many females, and on this dive Steph was
surrounded by 5 or 6 male divers, they were coming over to learn her secret...:-))
In these shots you can see Chris being pestered by several playful
Sea Lions. They would tug on her fins, make faces at her, and tug on her
snorkle (a bit distressing as it's attached to your mask and causes it
to flood instantly when they do that!)
A couple of shots from our most recent dive trip.
