Holy Moly! That's like diving in an aquarium. Lots of really interesting fishies.
I dove just a little when I was in and just out of HS. The water where I grew up is pretty uniformly cold, it wasn't as much fun as it could have been.
One of my besties was a hard hat diver in the Navy for over 20 years. He tells some amazing stories of both diving AND liberty call :)
Oh man it's such a comfortable place to be. In Laguna Beach I've been in school of tuna probably 3' long but way to many hundred Ed of them to count. Good times down there, Catalina Island, too, saw a sea turtle down there once, biggest I've ever seen, thing was the size of a tailgate.
Don't you miss that weightlessness feeling? I can't get enough of it.
That clip I shared was a reef in shallow water, not anything big but lots of little guys.
Yeah, I do miss the weightless feeling. I sorta got to a place where I had to choose between diving and riding. I don't regret my choice at all...
My buddy tells lots of 'training dive' stories about Catalina and the piers at San Diego. Langusta. Lots of them :)