WOW!!!!!!!!! Surfperch and anemones and bat stars, oh my! Can you guess why I’m so happy???? Just this weekend, I became a certified scuba diver! And I got certified right here in Monterey Bay!
I bet some of you are thinking; “What’s there to see? It’s just a bunch of kelp!” Well...yes, there is kelp… but no… there is a TON of other stuff! I saw this awesome type of fish called a scorpion fish, which have a sting, which is really a spine coated with venomous mucus. But they are soooo beautiful, and as long as you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you. I also saw tube anemones, which look sort of like regular anemones, but I think they look just a little but cooler. They have longer tentacles, and tend to be more tube-ish. And you wouldn’t believe how many sea stars I saw! They were everywhere, and they had so many different colors!
The other awesome thing I saw were the decorator crabs. I’m sure that there was a decorator crab to match every color of the rainbow. Decorator crabs put little objects from their environment to make themselves blend in to what’s around them. So there were squishy crabs with sea anemones on then, and red crabs with kelp on them, and plenty of others besides.
If you want to start diving, a great first step would be the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Underwater Explorers program. I did it a few years ago, and LOVED it! You dive in the Aquarium’s great tide pool, and get to see some pretty cool stuff. I saw a Monkeyface-eel, a sea cucumber, lots of fish, and sea stars. This program is available for ages 8-14, although it’s only available in the summer. If you want to learn, please go online to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s website, go to Fun & learning, and then click on Discover Diving. Hope to see you in the water next summer!
Congratulations on your certification! Welcome to the wonderful world of scuba diving!
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