Scuba Diving in Looe Key By Alec Thompson 2/2/10

The South East Costal Team, known as the tickle sticks, went scuba diving in Looe Key. They were super excited about going, even though one person couldn’t go. When the tickle sticks went to Looe Key they were told to put on their wet suits. We tried to put them on as quickly as possible, but most of us had trouble doing so. I got to wear two wet suits because I got cold. I got the first one on and then the second one on as quick as I could. It was time to go after we got our wet suits on. We got all our gear on and jumped off the boat into the ocean. It is so cool when you are able to breathe under water. There were lots of cool fish to see. The open water divers saw a lizardfish and the advanced divers saw a 16 ft moray eel. When we sat on the bottom it was very relaxing to us. It was a very quiet and peaceful place underwater. We moved from coral to coral being careful not to break any coral or rocks. We saw some amazing colors in the coral reefs. Some of the colors included blue, green, red and purple reefs. Over all the dives went smooth.