I am NAUI certified in - open water 1, open water 2, under water search and recovery/salvage, and under water navigation. I grew up spear fishing and rig diving off the coast of South Louisiana and also did some low visibility diving in local lakes and rivers back in Louisiana. When I say low visibility I mean zero. I hit my head on a submerged barge once and never saw it until I ran smack into it. And for some reason little fish love to pick at an open wound. I have dived numerous places in Florida from Destin all the away down to Key West. Several years ago I spent a week wreck diving in Bonaire, absolutely one of the most beautiful places I have ever been. One of the guys with us got pretty wasted the night before our first dive, I watched him throw up under water. It was pretty funny, he managed to keep his cool and kept his regulator in his mouth the entire tire. Basically he puked, purged the regulator and kept diving. The fished swarmed him instantly. Funny as hell.