SLS032611A New Crew...bad start

Yesterday we arrived at the boat and loaded up. Things went very well. This is a tight , motivated crew. Off we went for our lead dive at Western Sambo. On the way we heard several other dive boats chatting on the radio about how bad conditions (visibility, etc.) were at other dive sites. When we arrived at Western Sambo we grabbed a ball and found that the visibility was crap; we could hardly see down the mooring line. The Captain and I talked it over and decided to go to Toppino's Buoy and have a look. At Toppino's it looked a little better so I got in and did conditions. Visibility was a little better so we decided to try the lead dive. What a goat rope. The tag lines were all screwed up so I couldn't get them together on the lines. We finnaly went down and the group broke into two groups, immediately getting separated. I surfaced with my group, went to find the other group which had drifted further from the boat and surfaced them. One of the divers was having a problem, saying he had been stung by jellyfish. We all went back to the boat, got on board and ended the day agreeing to try again tomorrow at Looe Key. Oh yeah, I also had to recover a weight belt in the beginning...an omen.