What has been the best thing you have seen when diving

Ally · 09-27-2007, 06:23 AM

What sticks in your mind about what you have seen when diving?

Scuba Mama · 09-27-2007, 02:44 PM

Someone who had a fear (of drowning) overcoming it and learning to dive and go on a trip on a live aboard.

**dalehall** · 09-27-2007, 03:23 PM

Right now, the Oriskany. But, I still haven't seen a shark yet. That's #1 on my want to see list right now. I'm either going to do a shark dive in the Bahamas pretty soon or next Spring, we're going to dive the NC coast and we're sure to see Sand Tigers there. I don't care what kind I see, I just want to see a shark.

Vegas · 09-27-2007, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Ally

What sticks in your mind about what you have seen when diving?

There are quite a few things for me....

I remember the first time I saw a Ray. Twas a huge batray in the Channel Islands.....I wanted to see one soooooo badly! The first one I saw was, as I said, Huge! and it rose up out of a cloud of sand it was kicking up, like a phoenix rising from ashes. -- took my breath away!

Next would be the Sea Lions. Watching them imitate my instructor and I sitting on the ocean floor with our feet in the air -- two of them on the bottom with their back flippers pointed up....priceless. ...And just the sheer numbers of them... heading back to the boat, turning around to look behind us, and seeing about 100 of these guys following us, darting and weaving through the water like giant underwater ferrets! unbelievable! wow....

I also carry a mental snap-shot of the first Moray Eel I ever saw....and one of a turbot, maybe 14" long, leaping from the ocean floor at one of my dive buddies.....and one from the moment I realized that rock was really a scorpionfish, not a rock.....

I have one from the lake too! there's a clear image in my mind of a paticularly aggressive craw-dad, lit up in the beam of my flashlight, waving his pinchers above his head as he ran toward me like he was going to single-handedly run me and my dive buddies out of HIS lake!!

but the clearest picture in my mind today
is from my last trip to Catalina, gorgeous vis, sunbeams streaming from the surface through the kelp, the three folks I'm diving with are all checking out a big lobster under a rock and I decide to go around to the other side to get a better view..... I push through the kelp, and about 2' in front of me is a little horned shark, maybe 18" long and the same yellow color as the kelp, I freeze and watch him swim. I look over my shoulder & try to signal my buddy, only to turn back around and watch his tail disappear. Kodak Moment. I hope I don't ever forget it.

MgicTwnger · 09-28-2007, 01:38 AM

A group of 78 year old cars in the hold of a freighter in lake Michigan.
Come to think of it, I'm going back to see them again in two weeks.

Or maybe it was that lady in Bonaire who was getting out of her wetsuit when........never mind. I'll wait for Ally to start a section for that kind of stuff.

**glynneco** · 09-29-2007, 03:20 AM

For me it was a dive in the Tuamoto's in the French Pacific. I was on a wall dive with tons of life from sharks to morays and lionfish as well as beautiful corals with 100 ft plus vis. I turned around and saw nothing but the most beautiful shade of blue. Nothing but the big nui as they say. Very zen. Very serene. Very memorable. I still dream about that moment.

**dalehall** · 09-29-2007, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by glynneco

For me it was a dive in the Tuamoto's in the French Pacific. I was on a wall dive with tons of life from sharks to morays and lionfish as well as beautiful corals with 100 ft plus vis. I turned around and saw nothing but the most beautiful shade of blue. Nothing but the big nui as they say. Very zen. Very serene. Very memorable. I still dream about that moment.

Now that sounds AWESOME!!!