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Work Hard! Play Harder! {Memorial Day 2018 Recap}

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Memorial Day Weekend always seems to be the “kick off” to the summer season. I guess that’s a good thing since Summer doesn’t officially start until the end of June. We get one month of summer prior to the actual summer solstice! But Memorial Day Weekend also tends to be the start of dive season.

As we learned last week, we’ve already had dive classes in the lake this year, but for the general run our dive season starts Memorial Day Weekend.

This year the top thermocline happened around 15 feet. On Sunday, Drake stuck his arm below the thermocline long enough for his dive computer to read. Then he stuck it above. There was a 9˚ difference. Wow! And you could definitely feel it when you dropped below the thermocline. The next thermocline happened around 28 feet or so. I want to say though, our divers were troopers! Especially our students! Continue reading→

20th Annual Underwater Pumpkin Carving

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It was brought to my attention last week while searching for a blog post that we never did a recap of the Underwater Pumpkin Carving last year. Can someone please explain how this happened? The best explanation that we have come up with is… We had the Chili Cookoff, the next day the underwater pumpkin carving, and then it was off to DEMA. Plus we were gathering recipes/pictures/stories for the cookbook, followed by pictures for the calendar and whew… we just plum forgot.

The question is… why did no one point this out? Last week when we were working on the 2018 Spring Sale Post, I was on the hunt for this blog post, why I can’t remember, but I realized it wasn’t here. So… I figured today would be the perfect day to recap last fall’s underwater pumpkin carving. I mean the weather is similar, right?

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2018 Annual Spring Sale

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Annual Sale sign out in front of Extreme Sports Scuba

It is about time for the Annual Spring Sale at Extreme Sports SCUBA. Make sure you mark your calendars for April 27 and April 28, 2018. That is the last Friday and Saturday of the month. Also, be sure to note that we are closed April 26 to prepare for the big sale.

This year we are offering new packages with the Hydros BC AND new and exciting G2 color computer. If you haven’t had the opportunity to hold one of these bad boys, now is the time

We have teamed these two new products up with the ever reliable and popular MK25/S620TI regulator. This package with a free mesh bag will only be $2999.00* April 27 and April 28, 2018. Continue reading→

Cozumel Group Trip – February 2018

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Time for a recap of our Cozumel 2 week trip. Grady and I went down to Cozumel a day early so that we could get everything ready for our group before they arrived.

After the group arrived for the first week, they did some shore dives to do weight checks and get comfortable with their equipment before heading out on the boat the next day. Continue reading→

Hello from Cozumel

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Hello from beautiful Cozumel.  We’re sitting in the lobby of Hotel Cozumel.  We hear a rumor that you may have ice back home.  Don’t worry we have ice here too, in our drinks.

Our trip started with a 5 am flight out of Tulsa. After arriving in Cozumel, and getting through the airport and immigration, we took a short bus ride to the hotel.  We checked in, grabbed a bite of lunch, and then headed to the swim beach to do our checkout dive and maybe another dive or two.  Then back to the room to unpack, clean up, and off to dinner.  After a wonderful and exhausting day, it was time to head off to the room to get some much need sleep.

Up early the next morning for a 6:30 am breakfast, then to meet the dive boat at the dock at 7:45 to get loaded and off before 8:00 to Cozumel’s world-famous dive sites.  Continue reading→

Super Bowl 52 Game Day Spread

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Who wants an easy Super Bowl 52 Game Day Spread? Well, we have you covered today!! What you will need to complete this spread (along with the ingredients for each recipe) is our Recipe/Memory Book, “If There’s Food They Will Come: 20 Years of Extreme Sports Scuba Stories and Recipes.” If you haven’t picked up your copy, make sure you run to the store TODAY… and by the store, I mean Extreme Sports SCUBA. We want to see your Shining Face!

Now, if you already have your copy, you are set. Get out your paper, read your recipes, go through your cabinets, and make out your shopping list. Here’s what we have for you…. oh and Bonus… We have an additional recipe at the end!

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Try SCUBA

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Here we are toward the end of January and I’m here to tell you, it’s cold outside. Oh, that may not be new news if you’ve walked out your door any at all in the past couple weeks. What I’m actually here to tell you is even though we had to call off the New Year’s Day Dive, our 2018 dive season is in full swing.

Saturday, January 13, 2018

Two Saturdays ago we had our first Try SCUBA of the year. It was a chance for old and new divers alike to get their feet wet warm waters. It may have been a swimming pool, but needless to say, we were still diving. We had the Boyscouts join us as well as other potential divers and already certified divers. It was a fun and productive day.

While Grady, Dan, Chuck, Mark, Tori, and I were off at the pool with the Try SCUBA group, Deb was back at the shop teaching class. When the Try SCUBA session was over, then it was time for the pool class portion of the classroom. Deb has 2 new students along with 2 refresher students.

So all of this to say, our SCUBA season is off to a good start. In just a few short weeks the first group trip of the year will be headed to Cozumel. Happy Saturday and we’ll let the pictures do the talking. Enjoy!

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173 and Counting

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Diver Dan, Cozumel July 2004

July 2003 I got my first introduction Into the world of SCUBA diving. Mask on, check. Breathy thingy, Check. Depth, 15 foot, I really don’t know, I didn’t check the gauges. Wasn’t really even sure you needed to check gauges. Water temperature warm. But at 15 feet in a lake my first time experiencing diving, I decided I was done. SCUBA diving was not for me.

Later that evening my daughter was getting her introduction to SCUBA diving. Hers was in the swimming pool at Big Bobber resort in Shell Knob. Danielle loved it. She was at the bottom that pool for over an hour, having the time of her life. After that, there was a brief discussion with my wife. I was informed one of us was going to dive with Danielle and it was not going to be her. Using my deductive powers of reasoning I figured out if it wasn’t going to be my wife, then it looked like I was going to learn to SCUBA dive.

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Never Have I Ever – SCUBA Edition

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Have you ever heard of the game “Never have I Ever”? The rules are simple: You give yourself a point for every item you have done. So Never have I ever become an open-water certified diver. Well, I have so I get one point. Easy, right? There is a potential to get 60 points with our Never Have I Ever SCUBA edition game.

Please make sure to leave your points either in the comments section at the bottom of this post OR in the comments section of Facebook, please!

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How Often Should I Dive?

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I am now an open-water certified SCUBA diver, how often should I dive?

The answer: the more the merrier. Diving is like a lot of other sports –  The more you practice, the better you become at diving. The better you become at diving, the more your comfort level increases. The more comfortable you become, the better diver you become. Plus, you want to keep up with the skills you learned in class.

One of the most important skills a diver has is being a good dive buddy to your dive partner. Unless you are a solo certified diver, you need a dive buddy. This is a safety issue as you may be required to assist your buddy in times of need (i.e. air sharing, emergency accident, or entanglement, etc).

The more you dive and the more your comfort level increases, the better all-around diver you will be.
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