Some simple rules to enhance your diving pleasure:
- Know your limits. Charge through them like an irate German trying to get off a crowded train in Mumbai. *
- If you see anything interesting, chase it away as fast as possible. Chasing things away is best done by approaching them in an ungainly but threatening fashion, kicking sand in their faces, cutting off their obvious exit etc.
- After chasing them away, never make any attempt to explain to those around you a) what you saw, or b) why you hared after it like a Cirque du Soleil reject having an epileptic fit.
- Disregard anything anyone with more experience tells you, they are merely trying to stifle your fun. For example, anyone who says "don't try to pull the giant clam out of the wall" is clearly just a killjoy.
- Never go anywhere with someone who used to be in the U.S. Navy.
Note these rules could equally apply to life on the streets of any major city, say, L.A.
* anyone who says they didn't add lederhosen to that image is lying.