Open Water Dive - Ocean Dive 1 - 23/3/13

Dive Site Details
Dive Company: Makin' Bubbles with Al
Location: "The Hole" Cudgen Creek, Kingscliff
Visibility: ~1m
Temp: Surface 26 degC / Bottom 25 degC
Depth: 5.6m
Bottom Time: 20mins
Pressure Group: B

Description
My first open water ocean dive... in a creek, with only 1m vis. Well, they say you should learn in the worst conditions to appreciate the better conditions. Dive site was only 8m deep max but that was plenty of room to do most of my skills. Very cloudy visibility due to some back currents swirling around and the bottom mainly consisted of fine sand so didn't see much in the way of aquatic life.

Dive
The first dive today was fairly simple, just fall in, blow some bubbles and get yourself used to your gear and breathing underwater again. Keeping very close to my instructor, otherwise I wouldn't have even been able to see him, even with his custom fluro-coloured wetsuit, we swam around for about 15 mins and surfaced to do a short de-brief and then work on some skills.