I'd come home from school and spend my time getting acquainted with the crabs and the fish and the sea urchins and the star fish. I was so pleased to get a face plate. That was my first piece of real ocean exploration equipment. And it's still probably the most important. Just a little piece of glass you put over your face so you can see underwater.
Snorkels are nice, flippers are nice, scuba tanks are nice.
But, number-one is to be able to actually see clearly what's down there. That's what lured me into the ocean. It still does. Tell us about your first dive . The first real dive in the ocean, aside from splashing around as a youngster with a face plate, was using a scuba tank at Florida State University when I was taking a summer course.