Its Valentine’s Day. Time to celebrate with one of Dean Martins’s favorite songs, slightly modified for this dive trip. See the valve with the black shiny thing, that’s an O-ring (O-ring) Put your Reg on the tank and make sure it’s all tight, save an O-ring (O-ring) You can swim you can glide but you’d …
Another day of diving in the books. Today we dove Horseshoe and Cedar Pass. As usual, our group is on the boat at 5 minutes until 8:00 AM ready for our 8 o’clock departure. We hang around a couple of more minutes to see if anyone else is coming. If you are on our dive …
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As divers and visitors to Mexico, we like to respect and observe the local customs. The siesta is one of the easiest customs to respect. Waking up twice a day, that’s the way it works for some of in Paradise. Whether a siesta in a hammock on the beach, or in a lounge chair by …
I have logged almost 2500 dives in my 16 1/2 yrs of diving. Lots of great memories and great stories. Today I added to my dive story, but first, we will talk about our dives today. Dive 1 was Palencar Bricks. Lots of cool swim-throughs on this dive. Doug Lord saw our first Lion Fish …
For those of you living under a rock, the Kansas City Chiefs won Super Bowl 54. Anyway, It’s time for Cozumel dive trips now! We got to Cozumel on Friday, took a lazy day on Saturday. On Sunday we headed out to dive Caves then off to Tormentos for our second dive of the day. …
Welcome to 2020. We are 8 days into the New Year and it’s already been an interesting one. But today, let’s focus on the annual New Year’s Day dive. This dive signifies the new year. It helps ensure we start the new year off correctly. So this year we started the morning with 11 divers …
November dive, 197 months in a row Location: Mermet Springs, IL Date: Nov 7, 2019 Time: 11:02 am Conditions: 38 deg. Overcast, rain, wind at 20mph Equipment: Steel 120 (Grady’s), G2 dove computer (Grady’s), Galileo Sol (Grady’s), Galileo HUD computer (mine, yes I do have my own equipment), 5 mil wetsuit, hooded vest, 7 mil boots, …
I alternately wanted to title this blog post… “Daddy, are you done yet? Daddy, are you done diving yet?” If you weren’t with us on Sunday down at Beaver Lake, I have one question for you… Why not? We had a load of fun as you might be able to tell from the alternate blog …
Stories Galore. Let me restate that… Stories Galore. Seriously! I know we’ve mentioned this before, but if you hang with us, you’ll have stories. I can’t stress this enough. This year proved to be no different. In fact, we might have had enough stories for 2 years. If you have ever thought of going on …
When asked to put together a blog post this week I didn’t hesitate at all. I started diving last November. Yes, I’m crazy to start as soon as the water is getting cold. I have a pretty strong aquatics background so scuba diving was always an interest of mine. It finally took a bit of …