YOU GO LadyV!
Many congratulations on your OW..and how super to have WAR stories already!!!!!! I guess if you couldn't see very far perhaps the perch can be excused for mistaking an ear fro a nice bit of dinner!?!?!
Were you not wearing a hood? Guess not if he could get to your ear - a 'maybe' for your next dives if you're still sorta wigged out about the attack - I think I'd be! Heck, my class finished our OW in the Puget Sound at Keystone Underwater Park in Washington State - we were diving a really great wall and my dive buddy swished her fin at a big old fish - looked like a rock fish of some sort - and he just moved a foot or so, settled again, looked up at us and BARED HIS TEETH!!! Boy! Was that a shocker! Both of us (and maybe him, too) were supremely weirded out, so the bite must have been a real corker!
I was pretty odd feeling and sort of 'out of it' for a while after my OW - but keep on top of this - if you're still having issues tomorrow, check with a medical pro. Stranger things have happened than an inner ear thingy. Don't freak, but don't let it go too long - and if you get feverish or really dizzy get thee hence to a medico pronto!
And DON'T LET THIS stop you from going back in - we all have issues to conquer. You're among the brave, the true, the real, the perennially damp - you're a scuba diver.
BIG OL HUGS from MsChris in Pasco WA
