I've never dived those forests and only kelp I've seen is brown and maybe 4-5 feet long. Is there ever any real danger of getting seriously entangled in those giant kelps?
It’s more of an issue on the surface once you’ve done the kelp crawl your navigation skills will get better or you are going to get in really good shape and don’t spin! Underwater it’s literally like diving in a forest pretty amazing. Streamline your gear so less catch points if you wear a knife on your leg put it to the inside so it doesn’t catch. Also when jumping off a boat into kelp let the big guy go first and punch a hole just saying! or go in deflated and when surfacing in heavy kelp hang just below the surface and push your purge and blow some bubbles and it will make a hole that you can surface through and then crawl back up on the boat. You learn ways to deal with it.
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