Stan Waterman told a story with film of course about
being in Bermuda on a boat loaded with students doing their first two open
water dives.
The giant stride put them right in front of a whale shark,
they promptly got right back on the boat! After they were convinced that the whale
shark was harmless they spent the entire dive with it, snorkeled with it during
the SI and then dove with it again for the second dive. Where do you go from
there?
My most memorable cert dive for all of the wrong reasons
was when I showed up at a quarry for the rescue class and it was frozen over so
it became an ice dive. Something like the joke about the dive boat sinking and
the PADI instructor announcing that there would be an extra charge for the
wreck cert!
There was just a story in the news recently about a kid in Florida finding an acient dug out canoe during an OW training dive.