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By Gloria Henderson
(Huge Kudos to Gloria for even remembering a comment that I made during one of the socials. I didn't think anyone listens when I start off with "How would you like to write an article for the Brief?"
We all felt this way when we first started diving, and it's nice to be reminded that new divers still see a fresh and unusual world in what we so often take for granted. - Scott)
Scott Bell asked me to jot down some of my observations from the perspective of a "newbie" diver. He had to wait a bit because my first real dive came, due to scheduling and lousy conditions, a full six months after my certification last November.
My dive instructor-dive buddy took me to the canyon off La Jolla Shores. One of the first spectacles was a four-inch sheep crab. At our approach, it pulled itself up to its full height, claws waving overhead in a fierce defensive display. How ferocious! How adorable! Leaving him unmo
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lested, I could just imagine him thinking, "Ha! I showed them!
After a couple more minutes of crawling along the ocean floor, it occurred to me that I should probably be swimming, like the pictures in my dive magazines, and like my buddy, who was effortlessly neutrally buoyant. A quick shot of air into my BC and nothing. Another little shot. The same. A third send me floating surfaceward. I got vertical, fully vented, and resumed crawling on the bottom. I repeated this procedure religiously throughout the dive.
We came upon a starfish almost one foot wide. My buddy touched it gently. Emboldened, I did too and was surprised at how soft it was, how like a human. Maybe I was surprised because the only starfish I ever handled was the dried, petrified variety in souvenir stores. An alien type of locomotion caught the corner of my eye, and to my amazement, there was a little octopus. I couldn't believe my good luck to see one on my first dive.
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This is the current Schedule for DASC 1999. If you would like to add to it, just let us know. And of course, our boats run every weekend, just call Jim Hudson
Jun 5-6 La Bufadora
Jun 9 DASC Social
June 12 Membership picnic
Jul 17-18 La Bufadora
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Jul 14 DASC Social
Aug 11 DASC Social
Aug 14 DASC Beach Party
Aug 28-29 La Bufadora
Sep 8 DASC Social
Oct 9-10 La Bufadora
Oct 13 DASC Social
Oct 22-24 3-day Horizon
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Trip
Nov 10 DASC Social
Dec 4 DASC Christmas Party
Dec 8 DASC Social
Dec 31-2 3-day Horizon
Millennium Trip
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