Scuba Diving Denver Aquarium

Saturday Andre and I went scuba diving at the Denver Aquarium. Originally I was looking to go snorkeling at the aquarium, but I saw that if you were a certified diver you could go diving. Neither of us had ever gone diving, but I decided to call anyways to see if they would let us do that instead of snorkeling. I called A1 Scuba and they were very friendly, they were able to hook us up, and for some reason made a special exception for us so we could go diving.

We got to the aquarium right at 10:30 and we met our instructor at the "dive lounge", he was an older guy but was very nice. He took us up to where we would be diving and walked us through some basic diving info. After a short quiz we hopped into some wetsuits and got in the water.

There was a ledge at the top where we were supposed to sit and go through a couple of basic diving routines. There was a giant sea turtle opening and closing his mouth on the ledge and they had to move him, but he was really cool. I went first and I sat on the ledge underwater, I had to remove my regulator from my mouth then find it and put it back in, then I had to breath through the back up regulator, and he had me fill my mask with water and blow the water out with my nose. I did this all pretty quickly and didn't have any problems.

So I started floating around the tank and taking videos while he helped Andre. Andre had a few problems with his mask, but he got a new one and was good to go. We started diving, we had to pinch our noses and blow to regulate the pressure in our ears on the way down. It was kind of scary at first, breathing underwater isn't exactly natural, but we both got used to it within a few minutes.

We spent about 50 minutes underwater and we saw all sorts of amazing creatures, moray eels, stingrays, sharks, nurse sharks, a 300 pound Queensland grouper, sea turtles, etc. It was awesome, I got some great videos and pictures and we both had a really good time. We were both nervous about going and at some points even thought about canceling the trip, but we were so glad to have gone. It was really fun. Our instructor was really great, he was patient and helpful, he even helped us by taking some pictures and videos, I really recommend A1 scuba they were very friendly.

The pictures didn't all come out too good because of the light reflecting off of the particles but the video is amazing. It is probably my favorite video I've made so far and you can watch it below!