DUDE! this water is amazing, I just told my wife the best part of tropical dive is that you have nothing but a BC and tank on all natural. the best part of PNW dive is that you cant ever see every little critter and you actually get to do something other then just swim around like a crazy fish upside down (well thats what I do)
so when I got in the water, it was with beg, borrowed, and all new (to me) gear! talk about crazy all at once! that combined with new water low viz...yikes
One thing I had never dove with was a wetsuit yikes! I was a underwater Yo-YO my ear still is killing me! I must say that I felt worse then my first dive, couldn't look at anything really, other then trying to figure out why I had lost all my ability of buoyancy control after thinking back to my class days of oh yea air expands and I just put on a bubbled suit! I was going nuts bouncing all over. that combined with also forgetting that suits compress so my weight belt flung all over I thought that I was getting snagged on things due to the weight shifting.
one thing I did get time to look at was a HUGE starfish! I have never seen starfish anywhere that were larger then a foot or so across, I never knew these critters existed. I will never make fun of my friends wife again for getting "Caught up with a starfish"
going back out tuesday and cant wait!
need to go rent some more gear and use a full tank (or two) with no swimming just buoyancy control
and they will get better with time and practice. The one thing I do remember that helped alot was having someone who was willing to dive with me just about every week. Once you get more experience make sure you continue your learning and get your advanced open water. There are alot more fun things to see like WOLF EELS and OCTO's, and IF you get the PHOTOGRAPHY bug there are so many MACRO things to see as well. There is a group of Thursday divers who dive the south sound from about Burien south. I would be glad to dive with you, I am at about 136 dives and counting.
