Sounds good Rob, the Tug is 1 of my favorite in-shore dives, along with the Santore which I got to dive by accident recently, we also had 40+ ft of vis. Seems like a good year for vis in Va. Beach.
We were just at Rawlings last Saturday & 2 weeks before on a Saturday giving my wife more practice in her drysuit before we hit Lake Erie next weekend.
Good luck with your classes, & look forward to diving in the near future with you. That Nitrox cert. will help tremendously with BT.
1 more thing Andy (Drewski) & I have been going to Nags Head & diving recently with
http://www.obxdive.com/ with good results. Maybe you could join us on a trip. We go early in the morning & are home by 5pm the same day.