Before anyone gets too worried, it was done by a student on the instructors, not on a student, and there was no dangerous activity involved.
At one point during our "fun dives" (all skills completed), one of the students picked up a gold coin off the bottom. I didn't see it happen, as I was working the perimeter of the group (herding cats as one of the instructors puts it). Turns out he had brought it with him, but he had some of us going for a while. So much so that as we were getting out of the water, he "dropped it". Kept one of the instructors busy searching the shallows for a while. Once the story was told, we all had a good laugh.
Saw one of the neatest scenes I've seen diving in our area. Viz had been between 5-15' all weekend. Fortunately we had 6 students and 7 instructors to keep everyone together. As we hit our turnaround point, I was no longer in the back following with the least viz, but in the front. We also must have hit the thermocline at the same point. I just happened to turn around and swim backwards to check on the group as a whole, and I could actually see all 12 of the other divers, in tight formation, with all the bubble columns and everything. I'd never seen anything like that except in warm water dives. Then, as fast as it happened, the viz went back down again. probably doesn't sound like much of a big deal, but you take what you can diving in New England
At one point during our "fun dives" (all skills completed), one of the students picked up a gold coin off the bottom. I didn't see it happen, as I was working the perimeter of the group (herding cats as one of the instructors puts it). Turns out he had brought it with him, but he had some of us going for a while. So much so that as we were getting out of the water, he "dropped it". Kept one of the instructors busy searching the shallows for a while. Once the story was told, we all had a good laugh.
Saw one of the neatest scenes I've seen diving in our area. Viz had been between 5-15' all weekend. Fortunately we had 6 students and 7 instructors to keep everyone together. As we hit our turnaround point, I was no longer in the back following with the least viz, but in the front. We also must have hit the thermocline at the same point. I just happened to turn around and swim backwards to check on the group as a whole, and I could actually see all 12 of the other divers, in tight formation, with all the bubble columns and everything. I'd never seen anything like that except in warm water dives. Then, as fast as it happened, the viz went back down again. probably doesn't sound like much of a big deal, but you take what you can diving in New England
