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Check out More from Memorial Day Weekend

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So we’ve covered a bunch of topics that happened during Memorial Day Weekend at the lake, but we’re not finished yet! Not only did the kids work on their certifications but a lot of other students worked on different certifications as well. There were 4 adults students completing their Open Water Certifications, 5 students completing their ERDI Certification, 3 students completing their Rescue Diver Certifications and 2 students completed their Solo Diver Certification.

Wow, what a great weekend right? Not to mention the fact that we had people who came to help kick off the Dive season. And there were more flowers added to the flower garden! It was an all around GREAT weekend! Also a special thank you to Mark Willoughby and Lee Lake for being “victim” divers to help out the ERDI and Rescue certifications.

Check out more pictures from Memorial Day Weekend

Pokey Cupp sporting his new dive equipment complete with pink bows courtesy of Deb Weston

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Memorial Weekend Recap – Happy Birthday to Deb (May 24)

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One thing that I have mentioned in many different posts is we know how to eat. At the Extreme Sports Scuba Dive club meeting in April Doug Lord and I got on to the topic of food. Hey, why not talk about food while eating food, right? Somehow we got to talking about Dan La Due’s fried chicken and Doug mentioned that he’d never had Dan’s chicken. So I brought this fact up to Dan. That started it all.

Dan and Mark Willoughby decided that we needed to choose a time and have Dan’s chicken so that Doug could try it. After a little planning, they decided that we’d do Dan’s “famous” chicken during the Memorial Day Dive Saturday evening. At first, Doug said he worked on the weekends but was able to take off the weekend so that he could partake in the diving and of course the food!

Turns out that after we planned the dinner menu for Saturday night of the Memorial Weekend we realized it happened to be Deb’s Birthday. Exciting, we had a great meal planned for her birthday so it was perfect, although I must mention that we verified with her that the menu we planned was okay with her.

The menu consisted of Dan’s chicken, fresh cut Suzy Q’s, Grilled Corn on the Cobb, and a bunch of sides prepared by everyone. Lee Lake made his grandmother’s Pineapple Upside Down Cake, especially for Deb. They say the cake is the official birthday cake for Deb. Since this is my first year here this particular weekend, I can’t verify that.

I can’t speak for Deb, but from what I can tell, she had a fantastic birthday consisting of Scuba Diving and eating great food.

Dan’s Chicken

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May 2014 Junior Diver Open Water Certification

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Saturday morning started off with breakfast. That’s one of the best things about going camping I’ve learned, food! (Remember I’m the pregnant girl who likes to eat) I made a batch of cinnamon rolls to take down plus there were choices of cereal and milk for breakfast. Around 8-8:15 everyone packed up and headed down to the diving site for a fun day of scuba diving.

Every morning starts off with a briefing either from Deb or from Grady on what will be going on with classes that day. Deb did the briefing on Saturday and Grady did the briefing on Sunday. Continue reading→

Indian Creek Campsite at Beaver Lake

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If you have been diving with Extreme Sports Scuba any time at all, then you’ve quite possibly been to Indian Creek Campground on Beaver Lake. But if you haven’t been here, here’s a quick overview of where we typically dive on Beaver Lake.

Indian Creek Campground is located at (13325 Indian Creek Road, Garfield, AR 72732). Be sure to use that address if you plan on plugging it into a GPS or you won’t find us. As you enter the park there is a check-in where you can check in your RV/camper/tent (best to reserve sites in advance if you plan on camping). You can place a camper/RV and one tent or else three tents per campsite. If you don’t want to camp, you can purchase a day pass if you just plan on entering for a day of diving. Continue reading→

Beaver Lake Dive Traditions: Short Stop – Garfield, AR

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Hopefully, everyone is recovering from his or her long weekend (hoping that you were able to have a long weekend). One thing about long weekends, it makes for short workweeks and takes us that much closer to the next weekend! Do you like my way of thinking?

While I’m going through all the photos that were taken during the trip to Indian Creek Campsite at Beaver Lake this weekend, I thought that I would take some time to share with you an eating experience that you must try if you happen to be down at the lake at some point this summer with us. Continue reading→

All Gave Some and Some Gave All

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On this Memorial Day weekend, along with the parties and the beginning of summer, we need to remember all those who have sacrificed everything to allow us a great weekend of celebration. Extreme Sports Scuba had a great weekend at the lake, expect many posts to come this next week, but we’d like to take this time to say Thank You to all the men and women who gave what Lincoln called the last full measure of devotion.

May 2014 Junior Divers Class Take 2

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Part of the certification process for all open-water divers is going to the pool and running through a specific set of underwater skills. Normally in the summer months we use Deb & Grady’s 10 ft deep pool, but in early May, their pool wasn’t warm enough so the junior divers used the pool at 5 mile for their pool class. Attached you’ll find a video of their experience. Look for the post finishing up their certification coming soon! Enjoy!!

Try it Tuesday – Neosho Project Graduation Style

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Friday night May 16th Deb Weston, Rachele Lord, Jason (JT) La Due, Mark Willoughby, Lee Lake, and Danielle La Due met at Extreme Sports Scuba around 10:45 pm. Why so late you may ask? It was a night dive of sorts, but only in a swimming pool. Is your interest piqued yet?

Neosho High School Graduating class of 2014 was having their Project Graduation at the Neosho Y and Extreme Sports Scuba was invited to be there. Continue reading→

Extreme Sports Scuba Try it Tuesday – May Edition

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Here it is the middle of May and we’re finally starting to approach warmer weather. This month we were hoping that we could have a Try it Tuesday outside in an outdoor pool, however, if you’ve paid any attention to the weather here lately, we’ve been on a roller coaster of hot and cold so we chose to have it at 5 Mile Camp again for good measure. Turns out we made a good call since the high for the day hit around 58 degrees. Brrrr, that could have been cold in an outdoor pool.

So Tuesday night we met up at Extreme Sports Scuba and headed toward 5 Mile Camp for the May Try it Tuesday. The great part about it is if you come try it and you get hooked now, you don’t have to worry about waiting months to get certified. Nope, if you come try Scuba and enjoy it, we’re now in the warmer months and are just waiting to get you certified. This is the perfect time to come out and Try Scuba Diving!

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Next Class of Junior Divers – May 2014

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This month we’re excited that the next round of Junior Divers is working on their Open Water Scuba Diving Certification through Extreme Sports Scuba. It is so exciting that Scuba Diving International (SDI) allows junior divers starting at the age of 10. Friday, May 2nd and Saturday, May 3rd Chloe Lake, Tori Willoughby and Dylan Williams started the classroom portion of their Open Water Certification.

Dylan and Chloe are both 3rd generation Scuba Divers. Tori is a second generation Scuba Diver.

Deb Weston went over the first few chapters of the book on Friday night. Continue reading→