Kyle and I got our open water diver licenses yesterday

Kyle and I got our open water diver licenses yesterday. It was a lot of fun, andI enjoyed the training and we had a good, tough and a bit crazy young (22) French woman who was raised in the Dominican Republic as our instructor. She was very thorough and I feel very comfortable doing dives at our level.

Highlights: getting down to 65' and seeing the largest Southern Stingray I have even seen - had to be bigger than 6' in diameter. Swimming by he seemed like sublimely graceful evil.

Trailing a large Hogfish, and finding an octopus in his den with a pile of bones and shells outside his lair.

Took some GoPro video, but where I am at cannot U/L video. Have some drone flights edited as well.

Originally posted on Facebook on July 20, 2016.