How often should I service my dive gear? Every year around this time you hear, bring in your SCUBA gear to get serviced. Don’t forget, etc etc. Then Grady puts on a SCUBA gear maintenance class. This usually is a couple hours one day. He goes over everything that needs servicing and the y’s as …
Why should we cancel or abort a dive? This past Monday, January 1st of the New Year 2018, our dive club at Extreme Sports Scuba did NOT have our annual Polar Bear Dive. On the 27 of December, a decision was made to cancel the dive club dives for the day due to the predicted …
Hello, my name is Tori Willoughby. My mother is the writer of the scuba blog. I’m going to tell you a little bit about my time and experience as a diver. Why I got Certified Let’s start with why I got certified. I got certified when I was 11 years old. I wanted to get …
Happy New Year! Can you believe we made it to 2018. Doesn’t it seem like we were just ringing in 2017? Seriously, time needs to slow down a bit! (or a lot bit!) You’ve seen mention of it, January 2018 is going to bring some fun new things to the blog. One of which, we’re …
Merry 2 days after Christmas. Hopefully, you had a wonderful Christmas and Santa treated you well. Today I want to take a minute and tell you about something exciting we’re trying here on the blog for 2018. There was a video going on Facebook of a gal dressed in bows dancing. It said something about …
Let’s play a game called, Have you Met, Dan? Oh… you have? That’s right, we interviewed him back in January 2014. So let’s play a new game… Who wore it better? Oh… so we just have 1 diver for comparison… Diver Dan. Third time’s a charm… Let’s play Get the Look. How do you play …
Lights, Camera, Action. Lights out, parties over. Okay those are the only two I can come up with… so do you have any idea what I might be talking about today? If you guessed a light, you would be correct! If you are correct, would that mean you had that ah ha, light bulb moment? …
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When going through your open water classes, you’ll learn there are two types of divers, those who admit to peeing in their wetsuits and those who say they don’t but secretly do. You’ll also learn that if you’re diving, never grab Grady’s hand… and if you didn’t learn that, here’s your warning. Poor Grady! You’ll …
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I had a dream last night, no not Dr. Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream” speech. Mine was had, his was have, it’s clearly all about the semantics. But seriously, I had a dream last night. In my dream I was a new SCUBA diver. Maybe I had classes, maybe I hadn’t, I’m …
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So technically we don’t call ours a “Polar Plunge” and it is different than typical polar plunges, however… if you think about it, it is a polar plunge. It is January. It is cold. The water is even cooler, well sort of… our water was around 50 degrees and the outside temperature recorded in at …