Here I have "Open Water" certification.
My first organizational membership was the Collier County REEF Research Team. (REEF is an international organization engaged in education about and protection of marine life.) We were doing a fish identification and count on the new artificial reefs in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Naples.
This
photo was taken October 6, 2001
It is the start of a "two-tank" morning. This was the first
dive of the day. We were diving on two separate reefs.