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Extreme Product Feature – The Bella BC

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Nicole Willoughby Posted in Scuba Products Leave a comment

School days, school days, dear old golden rule days.
Reading and writing and arithmetic.
Taught to the the tune of a hickory stick.
You were my queen in calico.
I was your bashful barefoot beau.
And you wrote on my slate, I love you Joe.
When we were a couple of kids.

Oh. My. Goodness. I’m sorry. I guess I just had to put that out there since this seems to be the week when a lot of students are hitting the books again. Maybe quite literally if they are already frustrated. I don’t know.

How can we tie that in with a SCUBA blog? Oh you just wait. These students are getting their education while I’m here to educate you about dive equipment. Bam! I even surprise myself some days. Today’s SCUBA gear is……… wait for it… wait for it…

The Bella BC

This is an exclusive BC built just for women divers.

This particular BC is designed with women in mind. They built this BC so that women could have the ease and comfort of a BC that is specifically tailored for a comfortable fit. This is a front-adjustable BC that perfectly contours the woman’s figure. This BC features an exclusive SCUBAPRO wraparound bladder which helps to preserve that cradle-like shape even when fully inflated.

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We Need You!!

Posted on August 10, 2017 by Nicole Willoughby Posted in Did You Know Leave a comment

Were you at Dive Club last Thursday night? No? You didn’t partake in the rain with us? Well why not? So many questions so few answers… But… I need to do some house keeping business.

If There’s Food, They Will Come: Extreme Sports Scuba 20 Years in the Making.

Okay, okay, so maybe that won’t be the official title but it’s a work in progress.

What is it? So glad you asked! This is the Extreme Sports Scuba Cookbook/Memories Book. This is where we need YOUR help! It is because of our Extreme Sports Scuba diving family that this business has made it 20 years (and still going!!). We want you to be a part of this book.

How? We need your recipes. Things you’ve brought to dive club. Things you think we’d really like. If you have a request of a recipe you want, let us know, we’ll see if we can find it!

Stories. 20 years. Many millions of divers. Okay that’s a bit extreme, but we’ve had a LOT of divers come through these doors. There are stories galore. We would love you to submit those stories with us.

Pictures. 20 years of pictures. Just looking back through pictures from Cozumel for the past 7 years it’s fun to see the different hair looks on both Deb and Grady, so imagine the pictures you can submit.

When do we need these all by? Please submit all recipes, stories, and pictures by September 30, 2017.

Where? You can submit them electronically to recipe@extremesportsscuba.com or hand deliver them to Extreme Sports Scuba. That means you get to come see us.

Extreme Product Feature – Loose Fit Rash Guards, Short/Long Sleeve

Posted on August 9, 2017 by Nicole Willoughby Posted in Scuba Products Leave a comment

Let’s talk a minute about Loose Fit Rash guards… both long-sleeved and short. In May, when we were in Cozumel, Grady made a statement that still lingers in my mind… We are barbaric.

Barbaric is an adjective. It means you are savagely cruel; exceedingly brutal or it means you are primitive; unsophisticated.

Now, do you believe this to be true? Think about it… You’re diving, you pee in your wet suit for 2 reasons… 1 you really have to go and 2 for warmth (remember, there are those who pee in their wet suits and those who say they don’t, but they really do). You rinse out your gear, semi dry it out if possible, and the next day you pull it out, smell it and say, does this stink too bad to wear again? I’m sorry, I’m laughing as I type these words because I know how true they are.

I actually refused to put on a rash guard one day in Cozumel because it stunk sooooooooooo bad. I’m still laughing. So, Barbaric. Are we Barbaric? Well I don’t think we’re being savagely cruel or exceedingly brutal unless you count the stench that follows us around, because I even remember telling Mark to get away from me, he stunk. Don’t worry, he told me I didn’t smell much better and really I didn’t.

Or maybe we’re being the primitive side and the unsophisticated side… because we’re walking around in our own stench. Then there’s Kim who brought a small spray bottle of sink the stink and sprayed it on all of her gear every day. I even borrowed it a time or two because the stench was soooooooooo bad.

All of this to say, let’s talk about Loose Fit Rash Guards. How on earth will I ever tie all that in you ask? Sit, wait, read, and find out. I have your back on this one.

Loose Fit Rash Guards

Loose Fit Rash Guards, Black short sleeved and Blue long sleeved

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Extreme Product Feature – Definition Shorty Wet Suit

Posted on August 2, 2017 by Nicole Willoughby Posted in Scuba Products

The blogger had a birthday this week. I’m a year older. I woke up this morning to an ear ache, my eye hurts, and as I was walking out the door I cracked my knee on the door jam. My question is, is this what it is like to fall apart at 34 years old? Haha. There has to be some sort of explanation, right? I mean, seriously.

But here again, you didn’t come to this blog today to learn about my ailments. Oh no, you came to this blog today to learn about some SCUBA Product. Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe, Catch a Tiger by the Toe, if he hollers, make him pay, $50 every day, My mother said to pick the very best one and You…. Are…. It….

Definition Shorty Wet Suit

Men's and Women's SCUBAPRO Definition Shorty Wet Suit.

That is correct ladies and gentlemen, today we are going to discuss the Definition Shorty Wet Suit. First off, let’s discuss the make of this suit. It is built a lot like a regular wetsuit, except it is short sleeved and a lot like wearing shorts all in one. Does that make it like a romper? Just a thought. Anyway… This “Definition Shorty” is built with 2.5 mil neoprene material and is lined for that maximum warmth + flexibility + comfort you crave in a wet suit. The only difference, it is short.

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Get the Look – Nicole Willoughby

Posted on July 31, 2017 by Nicole Willoughby Posted in Scuba Products 1 Comment

Wow, it seems like it has been forever and a day since we’ve done a Get the Look post and yet it feels like we did last months just yesterday. Goodness how can time move so fast and yet feel like it’s sitting still. I guess that is the million dollar question and if I can answer that I’ll be rich? Here’s my answer… Time’s Fun when you’re having Flies. Haha… no that’s the Kermit the Frog version. How about Time flies when you’re having fun. Does that sound better?

“Kermit the Frog – Eats Flies, Married to a Pig, Hollywood Star. Live your Dreams!”

Okay, so we’ve probably spent enough time on Kermit the Frog, let’s move on. Today is the last Monday of the month. I’m still not sure how we got here so quickly, but it means that it is time for the Get the Look post. Today’s feature happens to be… well… um… Me. That’s right, I’m here to show you what the Blogger dives in and to prove that she practices what she preaches. Just follow along!

Get Nicole, the Blogger’s, Look

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Extreme Product Feature – Sea Dragon Strobe

Posted on July 26, 2017 by Nicole Willoughby Posted in Scuba Products

Hey guys, how are you this fine Wednesday? Did you realize that this September, this little ol’ blog will have been here for 4 years? Holy cow! We’ve covered a lot of topics too. In fact, to date (including this one) we’re at 358 blog posts. Holy cow!

I bring this up because there was one series of blog posts we did that I think we all had a lot of fun reading, or at least I did. I sure hope you did! That was the “getting to know the diver” posts. The year we did this, the goal was set at 52 blog posts that year featuring 52 divers. There were some weeks I wasn’t sure we were going to make it.

Again, I bring all this up because we’re bringing this line of posts back. Now, there won’t be a huge push to get 52 in a year or anything, they’ll be sporadic. We’re all a family here and it’s always fun, in my opinion anyway, to learn about our family. So I hope you enjoy this, and now I’m looking for new people to interview. And new in a sense that I didn’t include them in the 52 weeks. I would like new divers as well as seasoned divers to interview! I have my first one lined up, who wants to be number 2?

Now that we have our house keeping taken care of… Let’s look at today’s Product feature:

Sea Dragon Strobe.

In our Open Water Classes we learned that you lose color the further down underwater you go away from the sun and you lose those colors in the form of ROY G BIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet). So if you aren’t careful, you can be down 100 feet easily in the ocean, see something gorgeous, take a photo, and be disappointed with that photo because it comes out a grayish blue color. Bummer.

How do you avoid that? With the help of artificial light. Not only do they make underwater cameras, but there are also underwater flashes that attach to the camera body housing and you’re in luck, today we’re going to learn about one of those.

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Extreme Product Feature – Dive Flags

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Nicole Willoughby Posted in Scuba Products 1 Comment

The number 1 goal for diving is safety. Safety not only includes learning how to use your gear properly, but it also includes rules and regulations for sharing the water. These rules and regulations not only effect divers but also effect boaters alike. We’re right in the middle of summer so it is the perfect time to review some of these rules to make sure that everyone is safe this Summer season!

The Diver Flag

What is a diver flag? There are two diver flags. One is the international code flag which is alfa/alpha. This is a flag that is comprised of Blue and White and signifies that the vessel has a diver down and that other vessels in the area should keep low speeds and steer clear of the area. In North America typically use the Red flag with a White stripe from the upper left corner to the lower right corner.

Both flags signify there are divers below and please keep your distance. But there are a more specific set of rules that apply to the Diver Down flag or the SCUBA flag. Let’s take a look at these rules now. Remember, we’re out for safety!

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Extreme Product Feature – SeaLife DC2000 Underwater Camera with Housing

Posted on July 12, 2017 by Nicole Willoughby Posted in Scuba Products

In April I was camping at the Trails for Kids event held down in Pineville, Missouri. Dan and Carlene La Due were nice enough to allow us to use their camper to stay in so we didn’t have to sleep in the bed of the truck under the stars. Probably a good thing for the amount of rain that came down. One of the days we were down there I was sitting in their camper and there was a shelf with a lot of magazines. I first zeroed in on Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond followed by a magazine called SCUBA Diving that the top headline was “Hot New Photo Gear.”

Being the Photo enthusiast I am, I couldn’t help but pick up this magazine issue and start reading it. The first thing I read was the Editor’s Note. He was talking about the difference between writers and photographers. Basically they both are out to create the same goal, “creating and conveying images.” Obviously one does this through the written word while the other does it through careful consideration of camera placement and composition.

Buck Butler, the editor, was talking about the leaps and bounds that the digital camera industry has done both for land and underwater photographers. That immediately had me scratching my head wondering how old this issue was. Then when he started “bragging” about the digital camera that was put in his hand with underwater housing that was 5 Megapixels and the high quality photos it took, I had to close the magazine to find out how old this magazine was. Turns out I was reading a magazine from July 2005. I couldn’t help but giggle. Why you may ask? Well, this year I purchased my third underwater camera, the SeaLife DC2000 which is a 20 Megapixel camera.

One other thing that really stood out to me in the editor’s note was a quote by Stephen Frink, “The Digital revolution is definitely here.” Boy, if they only knew then what we all know now. But let’s focus on the here and now and the here and now is the SeaLife DC2000 20 Megapixel camera with underwater housing.

SeaLife DC2000 Underwater Camera with Housing

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Extreme Product Feature – SCUBAPRO Snorkels

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Nicole Willoughby Posted in Scuba Products

It’s HOT. I guess it is summer though, right? Have you ever heard that the corn needs to be Knee high by the 4^th of July to be able to produce? Well I’m not sure about you but I’ve noticed a lot of the corn fields and they were knee high by like early to Mid June. I think corn gets planted earlier and earlier every year. But seeing as though yesterday was the 4^th of July, that means that it should have been knee high… Now, you didn’t come here to hear the corn report though… Nope nope nope. Instead you came here to talk about our SCUBA gear. Today let’s talk about Snorkels.

SCBUAPRO Snorkels

SCUBAPRO Snorkels

Why do we have a snorkel? Well, we learn in Open-Water certification classes that snorkels are a piece of equipment to help conserve air. What is a snorkel? Well when you’re a little kid you learn that it is a piece of equipment that allows you to stick your head underwater and have this pipe like tube that sticks out above the water so you can breathe. The SCUBAPRO snorkel is much like those cheap snorkels we had as kids, with a little better design.

SCUBAPRO offers multiple different types of snorkels to find the perfect one for each diver. All of their snorkels are designed for ease and glide through the water with minimum resistance, because remember, they are there to help conserve air. You don’t want that extra drag, even from a snorkel, to hurt air consumption. All mouth pieces are designed of silicone to allow for correct bite for each diver as well. The idea is maximum comfort, efficiency, and no hindrance.

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Extreme Product Feature – Mesh ‘n Roll Gear Bag

Posted on June 28, 2017 by Nicole Willoughby Posted in Scuba Products

It’s Wednesday! That means today we’re learning about another product, but if you missed out on yesterday’s blog post, I highly recommend you read it. It’s a good, yet fun reason to keep your dive log up-to-date. Mine is up-to-date, I really should go look at it and see what story it tells. While a lot of my dives are seen on my Luna screen, not all because I haven’t always had that Galileo Luna dive computer. In fact, since I’ve been diving I’ve dove with at least 5 or 6 different computers so I can’t just go back through and see all my dives. Instead, I have to look at my dive log. It’s a great reason to keep it current. But seriously, go back and look at yours and see the stories that lie in the pages.

Moving on to Wednesday though, Hi Dan, it’s Wednesday. Today let’s talk about Mesh ‘n Roll Bags.

Mesh ‘n Roll Gear Bag

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