Best and worst dive ever

Skydvwolfe

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Yesterday I had the best and worst dive ever! I have to share!
Since it was Easter, the local Marina (Kadena Marina, Okinawa)does an Easter egg hunt every year.
I said to myself, Easter egg hunt in the beautiful Sea of Japan. I'm in. Then I remembered its at the marina. The bottom is sludgy muddy goo, and with about 50 pairs of divers kicking up the bottom....
As soon as we went down, I practically landed on egg. The little plastic eggs that carck in half and get stuffed with candy were suspended with fishing line to little lead weights.
The next four eggs were recovered "shrimp boat style." I held tightly onto my husband's BC and spread my arms as far as possible.
To give you an idea of vis...I literally held my guages almost touching my mask to read my air.
30 Minutes later...we surfaced and returned to shore with 5 numbers for a raffle.
The blue spotted egg that held number 70 earned me a new Oceanic D4 reg :D.
 
It is not clear that this would qualify as a best dive. My best dive was playing with 15 foot manta rays in Papua New Guinea or diving with Orcas in the same location. My worst was diving in Palau after a typhoon where visability was zero.
 
my best dive has to be in fiji at Malolo resort, 5 minute boat drive and we where there,with visibility of 60+feet.
 
My best dive has to be my first (the 1-day hotel certification)... it was what made me want to get certified. My worst dive was in a shipwreck. I was in a very narrow stairwell, probably about 3' in diameter, and with my gear on, I'm probably 2.8' in diameter. Swimming up and all of a sudden I got stuck! Tried to go back, stuck... tried go to forward, stuck! After about 2 minutes of trying to reach behind me and undo whatever was stuck, panic started to kick in. We happened to have a videographer (sp?) with us and he just happened to be filming me as I came through the stairwell (or at least as I tried). Luckily my buddy realized what was going on, grabbed my fin, pulled me down, unhooked whatever was stuck and I was on my way. Scary moment, that's why you dive with a buddy!

Actually, I can't imagine my best dive... they are all so good!

-Scott
 
Doing wreck penetrations is a different skill set and should really be done only with specialized training. Can be very scary, more so if you happen to silt up the wreck.
 
best dive was San Francisco wall in Cozumel. We saw a gold Grouper.

Worst dive was cancun, MX when i was doing my check out dives.
 
Best Dive: Key West- Speigel Grove..Thats just cool!!!
Scary Dive: Key West- Speigel Grove..(different trip) 1 man + 1 Goliath Grouper in 1 Bulkhead = warm wetsuit.
 
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