What makes your first dive memorable/special?

[blue starfish]

Besides that it was your 1st dive, did anything funny happen, that makes you look back and simply puts a smile on your face? :fish:

 

[spectrum]

It was my wife's too

 

[300bar]

Just the (now)simple fact that I could breath underwater.
Like my students now I must have had the same stupid grinn on my face back then.

 

[TSherman]

What made my first dive so cool was seeing Richie Kohler from the "Deep Sea Detectives" on the boat. I was the big dork who asked him to sign my log book to!

 

[Teamcasa]

It was my wife’s first open water dive, on her 50th birthday. We were diving at Koloa Landing on the lovely island of Kauai, Hawaii. Were down about 50 minutes and as we were walking up the ramp we could hear helicopters flying around and people talking about a tsunami. Apparently a small 2’ tsunami hit while we were diving!

We felt nothing underwater but it makes a great story!

http://www.prh.noaa.gov/hnl/pages/events/Nov15tsunami/Tsunami_November_15.php

 

[drbill]

Um, ah, er.... it was almost 50 years ago. Do you think I can remember things from that far back? I do remember my first salt water dive here off Catalina on August 24. 1969. As I descended at Arrow Point, a shovelnose guitarfish swam down with me. Rarely see them on the island these days.

 

[swmarc]

Besides that it was your 1st dive, did anything funny happen, that makes you look back and simply puts a smile on your face? :fish:

I got to hear a story of sea lion/man love from my DM....

 

[ScubaSarus]

We took a compas heading across the pond to the cliffs. After reaching what we thought were the cliffs, we ascended and noticed we were right were we started from.

 

[Paco]

Mine was a resort dive at Chankanaab park in Cozumel. The instructor checked a couple of skills in the shallows and complimented my on my comfort level and ease with which I appeared to do them. I think he was a little too confident as he led and I followed. Well, being my first dive, I had no idea that my tank getting lighter and my breathing could suddenly cause me to pop to the surface. Well, I did and when I got there, I remembered that I could dump air from my BC. I did so and resumed my place right behind the instructor. I was back before he noticed I was gone. I now understand, as well, that he really should have kept a better eye on me and we should have swum side by side, but it is one thing that sticks out in my memory of my first dive.

 

[Squishy]

First dive in the pool in OW class was funny because it turns out I have extremely buoyant legs and every time I stopped forward motion, my legs would float up behind me and I would be hanging upside down in the pool. (The instructor eventually pulled a couple weights from his belt and stuffed them in my boots.)

-Mike-