Kevin and I were SCUBA diving in Monterey Bay.  There was a lot of kelp in the bay and it took us a while to figure out how to navigate.  If it started to wrap around you and you struggled, it would only wrap tighter – the best way seemed to be to relax and go with it.  Kevin and I were having a lot of fun playing hide and seek in the kelp about 30 feet down.  The person hiding would get out of sight and stop breathing so there were no bubbles to track.  Soon it was time to refill our air tanks and we found ourselves fairly close to shore so we headed in.  We hadn’t gone very far when we encountered a massive school of fish that stretched out 100 yards by 100 yards and extended about 30 feet down.  They were so active, the surface boiled. This presented us with a small dilemma – we didn’t have enough air to swim around them or beneath them.  I asked Kevin what he thought we should do and he said, “Let’s go right through ‘em”.  They didn’t seem to care about us and didn’t really move away when we entered their area.  Their bodies pressed close to us and we felt as if we were part of this huge, living mass.  We were carried along with the school without really having to swim ourselves.  When we left the school we were close to shore.  We were both excited about what had happened to us and shared some happy moments sharing our feelings