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10 Reasons to Visit Mermet Springs {Extreme Sports Scuba Edition}

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How much fun did you have this past weekend? Well, if you went to Mermet Springs, I can help answer that question (hopefully…ha!). If you weren’t able to go, I just want to say you missed out on some totally GREAT diving and loads of fun! And we missed you!

This blog started out in 2013 with a blog post about Mermet Springs. Then a year later there was a 2014 post about Mermet Springs. Now here we are 2 years later just having returned from Mermet Springs. Other than dives were different, people might have been different, etc, what more could be said about traveling to Mermet Springs you might ask? Well I’m so glad that you decided to show up to this cozy little corner of the Internet today to learn:

10 Reasons Why YOU should travel to Mermet Springs to dive the Extreme Sports Scuba Way:

1. You’re diving in September.

What more could you ask for? That’s it. That’s all you need to know. Bam… I could end the post on that note, but I won’t.

Mark Willoughby, Jared Weston & Karen Weston hanging out on the 15 foot platform

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It wouldn’t be Extreme Scuba Diving without Food – Memorial Day Weekend Diving

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I’ve mentioned before that another motto that we have here at Extreme Sports Scuba is,

“If there’s Food, they will Come”

Now obviously this is a joke, but still…

If you remember back to last year, Deb’s birthday fell on the Saturday of Memorial Weekend. This year though it fell on Sunday. When we were making our food arrangements we decided to celebrate Deb’s birthday on Saturday when the most people would be present.

The menu consisted of Dan’s famous fried Chicken, Fresh Curley Q’s and all the sides you could ask for. Once you were done eating, it was time for dessert. There were all kinds of desserts including 2 types of homemade ice cream and pineapple upside down cake among others! We know how to eat!

Dan, Lee, and Mark voluteered to cook the chicken and fries. Jason oversaw the kids making the curley Q’s and Tori and Cailee helped the blogger (that’s me) bread the chicken for Lee & Mark. Deb & Carlene helped prep the chicken. So it was an all out affair where many people pitched in and helped. But the best part of the night was the fellowship among friends (our dive family)! And you can’t top it off without fire. I mean seriously! Dan had Carlene pick up enough candles for Deb’s age and we banded them together and lit them all. Don’t worry though, Dan was standing close by with a fire extinguisher.

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SCUBAPRO Platinum Dealership Party

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Do you know what day it is? Groundhog Day! And don’t worry, it isn’t like that 1993 Bill Murray movie, Groundhog Day, this day won’t be repeated. But, a day that would be fun to repeat would be Saturday! Maybe not the work leading up to the day, Deb might disown me if she had to repeat the work leading up to the party, but after all the work was finished and the party started, let’s repeat that!

In case you didn’t know, Saturday Extreme Sports Scuba went Platinum with ScubaPro. About 5 years ago ScubaPro created a program with a set of guidelines and a reward system for the top 50 out of 450 ScubaPro dealers in the country. As of Saturday, Extreme Sports Scuba falls into that category.

Scott Dawson came into Extreme Sports Scuba back in either 1998 or 1999 to convince them to sell ScubaPro, back when Extreme Sports was in a 12×16 shop. At first, Grady and Deb weren’t completely sold but decided to give it a shot and it has turned out in their favor. All it took was Scott having faith in their business. Saturday their hard work was rewarded when Extreme Sports went Platinum.

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Mermet Springs Dive Traditions: Fat Edd’s Roadhouse

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I really think that I’m starting to sound like a broken record when I talk about how much we like to eat. Think about it though, Scuba Diving is a sport and people who play sports exert energy. Exerting energy makes you hungry and the way to calm that hunger is to eat. There I have made a case as to why we like to eat so much, do you agree with me?

But let’s get back to today’s post, okay?  So every trip to Mermet Springs tends to bring about a trip to Fat Edd’s as a group on Saturday night. Now Fat Edd’s has had a few different names so depending on who you are talking to and how many trips to Mermet they have made depends sometimes on what they call it.

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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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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→