Dive Buddies

In 2005, I was trying to finish college by any means possible.  Well not really by any means, but when you are down to needing only a few units to graduate you start to get creative.  I found myself needing one unit of P.E.  21 years after graduating high school, taking a PE class seemed pretty silly but what are you going to do?  After some research, I found out that something I have always wanted to do, scuba diving, could get me the unit I needed.  So, off to dive class I went.  Megan, then only 12 years old, also loves the water and I was able to talk her into going along.

Megan is the best dive buddy ever!  In class, we learned how to handle every mis-step you can have when diving.  Megan almost drowned me during buddy breathing regulator passing.  She got hit by a rogue wave and lay floundering in the surf at Laguna.  Her tank came off in Catalina.  We have had a lot of laughs.  Watching her try and get a wetsuit on is pretty hilarious too (sorry Megan, I am laughing at you not with you here).  Believe it or not, they actually gave us certification cards.  We actually did pretty well. Megan being only 12 was amazing!

Now even though we don't get a chance to dive very often, we love to dive. On almost any vacation, you will find us underwater at some point. I have dove Cozumel, Maui, Catalina, Shaw's Cove (Laguna Beach) and my favorite, The Big Island of Hawaii.  We hope next year brings diving in Grand Cayman.

The picture is from this past weekend when Meg and I dove off Catalina Island at "Sea Fan Grotto" and "Dynamite Shack".  The diving was only fair.  We saw lots of kelp, garibaldi, blue banded goby, sea stars and urchins and even a very nice lobster.  We had a lot of fun.  No mis-haps this time.