Finally after nearly 400 dives it happened. I went up to Hood Canal with a bunch of friends for a camping/diving weekend. Weather and diving was the best. Saturday for my first dive I took my Zodiac up to Rosie's Ravine with some friends. Since I pulled a bonehead move and left my dry suit in the truck I was not able to dive the first dive.... But the dive Gods were smiling on me. After going back to get my suit, a friend and I went back to dive Rosie's. After dropping down the anchor line we started to swim down the slope and saw a 3' Dog Fish shark. This was only the 2nd shark I had ever seen and the first one was also at Rosie's and it was a Dog Fish also. After 60' the vis opened up and and we swam down to 125' checking the wall out. My buddy grabbed my fin and when I turned around there was a 8' 6 gill swimming around us. It was unforgettable. What a beautiful shark. My first real shark in the wild. It swam around us a bit then went on its way. We were giving each other the high-five :wave-smil :wave-smil and doing the victory dancing in excitement. This was also the first shark my buddy had ever seen. Then on our way up we ran into a 5' Dog fish shark who was not happy with us. He circled us then came at us, finally turning about a foot in front of my face. All this on top of seeing three large Wolf Eel's and several fish I have not seen before. I am still jazzed.
It was a great day of diving on Hood Canal.
Charles
It was a great day of diving on Hood Canal.
Charles
