I turn a couple of flips, take the regulator out of my mouth to smile and pose for a couple of pictures. None of them touch their food until I turn to swim away. Give me a costume and call me Goofy. I could do this all day long. After an eight-minute introductory video, divers are shown to locker rooms to change into bathing suits and shorty wetsuits, and then to the dive deck above the aquarium.
Dive gear is set up on the edge of the dive deck and ready to be strapped on.
The group of eight divers is divided into two groups of four, given a predive briefing and a divemaster to follow into the aquarium for a half-hour dive. You can bring your own mask and dive skin, but that's it. Sorry photo hounds, no underwater photography allowed. The aquarium is kept at a cool 74F to supress algae growth, but there's never any surface chop or current to worry about. Because space is limited, make reservations well in advance of your visit.