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SDI Scuba Diving E-Learning

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The weather is changing though. The last couple of days have been absolutely beautiful. It makes you want to get outside and play in the sun. Do some spring cleaning around the house. Really, just move on with your normal everyday tasks. Unfortunately, right now we’re not able to do that quite yet. This is a weird time in history. Everyone I have spoken with agrees we’ve never experienced anything like this. And unfortunately, we don’t know how long it is going to last.

So, what is something fun we could do? Something to prepare us for the upcoming summer weather. Something to just get our mind off this time of uncertainty.

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Social Distancing and SCUBA Diving

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This is a newer phrase that has been introduced into our vocabulary. It seems like in a matter of weeks we went from life is normal to the new normal. The new normal, whatever that is. It’s been an interesting ride up to this point and will continue to be with the unknown. Wow, Elsa said it right, “Into the Unknown….” Who would have thought she would be able to predict the future?

I’m not going to bore you with much Coronavirus talk because, seriously if you wanted that, just go to Facebook. It is everywhere. Every perspective you could imagine and wish for.

But here’s a thought… I seriously don’t believe that the virus will last underwater. Underwater? How do you breathe underwater? Well, if you are Harry Potter, you take Gillyweed. Continue reading→

The T-Shirt Quilt

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Earlier this year we decided to do something fun. If you happened to be at the meeting last week, Deb mentioned what we’re doing. But for the rest of us, I want to explain.

First off, the title of the post gives you an idea, we’re making a T-shirt Quilt.

Back in 2018, our friend Harriett Miller made Grady a t-shirt quilt out of old dive t-shirts (see above). Jump forward to January of this year and Deb and I got to talking. I mentioned that we should make a t-shirt quilt this year. We’ll have a shirt at every dive club plus each event. We would like all of our divers and friends to sign the shirts. Then Harriett is going to help me (the blogger for those of you who don’t know) make a t-shirt quilt. Continue reading→

March 2020

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Where did February go? I think it ran off. Allison made the comment just this morning that it seems like it has been ages since we’ve all seen each other. Unless you went on the February Cozumel Trip, that’s probably true. The February meeting was canceled due to bad weather. January’s meeting happens on the New Year’s Day Dive. So, here we are, it’s March.

Upcoming dates

You’ll get the full list of upcoming dates tomorrow, but here are a few to plan into your calendar.

  • Thursday, March 5, 2020 – March Dive Club Meeting 6:30 pm – Fajita & Nacho Bar
  • Tuesday, March 10, 2020 – Nitrox Class 6 pm
  • Friday, March 20, 2020 – Equipment Maintenance Seminar 6 pm

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It’s the Little Things… Cozumel Trip

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When diving in Cozumel it’s not always about eagle rays, turtles, moray eels, sharks, or even splendid toadfish. Sometimes it’s the littlest creatures. Those that we see and sometimes even photograph. Sometimes we don’t. Some of the smallest creatures can be amazing. Sometimes animals are overlooked not due to their size but due to being plentiful.

There are divers that carry magnifying glasses to find the really small stuff. There are photographers that specialize in macro photography. Continue reading→

Just going with flow… Cozumel Trip

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Or as we call in the SCUBA diving world,  drift diving.
If you have ever been to diving in Cozumel you’ve probably been drift diving. A very simple description would be, you jump into the ocean and the boat follows you and then picks you up when you are done.  Sometimes you just slowly move along kicking just a bit to get around. Other times you just fly.
Yesterday we were treated to unusually mild currents here in Cozumel.  We took advantage of this and dived a couple of reefs that are seldom dived due to strong currents. We hit La Franseta (misspelled) reef first. We dropped in on a pair of eagle rays that gave a couple of our divers quite show. We had just enough current to keep us moving.

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Just Another Manic Monday… Cozumel Trip… Day 9

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Just in the middle of a dream. We were diving Santa Rosa. But we got in on Cedral Reef.
There’s my tribute to the Bangles. I hope they don’t hold it against me.
We had a pretty manic Monday here in Cozumel. Manic for a dive trip to Cozumel that is. We had the Manati loaded with about as many divers as is comfortable having aboard. Once we arrived at our first dive site we missed our reef and had to swim across the sand to get on track. Once we were over the reef we saw one of the largest spot-fin porcupine fish I’ve ever seen.

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I Wear My Dive Mask at Night… Cozumel Trip… Day 8

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I wear my mask at night, too. In staying with our recent musical blog posts themes.  I love night diving.  Especially here in Cozumel.  Whether it diving from the shore at Hotel Cozumel & Resort, from the dock at Cozumel Marine World, or from the boat at Paradise reef. I really enjoy night diving. You may ask, why jump into the ocean and go diving when it’s dark?  First of all, we start the dive when it’s still light. This makes for a much easier transition from daylight to dark. Instead of just jumping off a boat into the darkness.

The real reason for a night dive is the critters.   You are going to see different creatures and a lot of the daytime… Continue reading→