I Owe Wayne Another Beer

First things first, I passed the rescue diver class. This means I'm now not only able, but kind of obligated to assist or lead rescue and first aid efforts in diving related incidents. Or near-drowning, or really and CPR related thing. I am so special. Actually in my opinion I barely passed. I couldn't find the goddamn weight belt again! Stupid 14 inch visibility. I actually lost my own buddy in the effort to find it. It still has not been found yet. The recovery and towing in went relatively fine, though the victim occasionally got his head dunked under water...oops. Then things went pretty well with the cpr, except i stopped after the Oxygen was hooked up, which you weren't supposed to do apparently...oops. Still I passed even though the victim probably would have been in trouble multiple times over. Close enough I guess...
Before that I went diving. It was my last actual fun dive, and we saw some stuff. Lobster, crab, and a giant green moray with almost it's entire body exposed which was pretty cool. Right at the beginning we saw a peacock flounder. It's so thin that I don't understand how it has bones. I thought it was some invert or other.

That was right as we got down there too. We also saw a rather large turtle with moss growing on its back. The sea was very choppy as we got to the site. I had all my gear on and was ready to go. We had been using a back roll entry, which is that we sit on the side up the boat and do a backwards roll into the war. We wait for the divemaster to give us a countdown. I sat on the side of the boat...and then we hit a wave. I lost balance for a moment and had feet with fins spread out, giant heavy tank hanging off the boat. Predictably, I fell off into the water. This wasn't a big deal as I had everything on, except my mask which was on my neck. I just stayed in the water until everyone else got in. Apparently everyone assumed erroneously that I just hopped in early. I corrected this falsehood, and Wayne claims I now owe him another beer. So that's two. For those paying attention at home, the prospective rescue diver fell off the boat.
So I mentioned possibly being a sunfish. This is what they look like

Bannerfish not usually included

very weird, but very distinct. They're also pretty rare and I had never seen one before. I mentioned it to Wayne and he said that yah, they did sometimes get small ones. It was probably about a meter or a little longer. They can easily make it to found meters long including the fins. It's always fun seeing new things, even if they look really weird.