Presumably you are a BSAC drysuit English Channel murk diver? 
'Tis true - my life was quite glamorous once upon a time, but no more⌠
I have done some south coast murk dives but equally some beautiful UK inc Scotland dives, drysuits being a requirement most of the time. Then diving Egypt, A big deep breath and ânow I remeber why I do thisâ 
Whatâs a murk dive? Anything like the murky swimming I do, a tasteful shade of green.
Yes the Red Sea is amazing - some of the dive operators can be dodgy, but the clarity of the water and the diversity of life is incredible.
I learned to dive in Turks & Caicos so diving in cold UK quarries or off the South Coast with visibility of about six inches never appealedâŚ
Yes quite similar to your murky swimming David, but probably more so! UK waters have a lot of silt thatâs stirred up by the currents so you canât see very far usually (or so I am told!)
In Turks and Caicos there are no rivers so no silt, and the âsandâ is basically ground-up coral so is quite heavy and doesnât hang in the water column, giving good visibility most of the time, except in the period after a hurricane has passed through!
I can only dream of that, I suppose my pond green is algae, the visibility is less than 30 cms. Although there are thousands of living things in there surviving happily, I make sure that eyes, nose and mouth do not allow entry and I clean my ears out very soon after the finish, even before I climb out.
Talking of living things, I make a couple of sweeps with the net after getting out just to remove some of the leaves and other stuff from the surface and empty it on an old metal tea tray. Then I sift it with a twig, each time I do this there are at least a dozen hoppers and wrigglers jumping around. Mainly water boatmen I think brown on the back but, and I havenât noticed this before, bright green on the underside. Also 5 cm long fearsome creatures which will one day become beautiful dragonflies as well as the odd young newts, not very big at this stage but will become a beautiful marbled green when fully grown, as long as I put them back, and I do.
Wasnât always like that. In fact only remember maybe 3 dives with poor viz. One time diving the M2 submarine swimming with arm out front so we didnt bang our heads on the sub 
. Plenty of excellent dives on the sound of Mull and Scilly isles in crystal clear water.
You forgot to say the water is freezing cold tooâ:cold_face:. When I was doing my certification, I was asked if I wanted to go on a couple of English channel dives, I politely declined and finished my open water cert in the Indian ocean 
Ahh freezing, no not normally, cold yes, with me in a 8mm wet suit and a 55 minute dive assisting our photographer in the sound of Mull, that made me buy a drysuit.
Very handy for all year round piscine maintenance 
Unless you are working on the bottom 
big weight belt needed. Was handy in a Calais pool though repairing a big liner tear
You could, of course, turn around before the end - just saying!
Hmm, bit like a supertanker in the water me, easier to continue and turn with the assistance of the strap and the sloping bottom to get some purchase. 