In March of 2019, our team Newton County Rescue and Recovery (NCRR) was called to Beaver Lake to assist the Benton and Washington County dive teams in searching for and recovering a couple of people that had drowned. The water temperature was around 45 degrees for the dives we did. The visibility was less …
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, no, it’s a SCUBA diver riding the current. What? Think about it, in SCUBA classes you are told about being neutrally buoyant. So, you don’t weigh more or less than the water but basically the same. Think back to those open-water classes… neutrally buoyant divers only move just a …
Sea Turtles are a creature that we love to see while Scuba Diving. They are large air-breathing reptiles that have been around more than 110 million years. Sea turtles are one of the earth’s most ancient creatures. Their shell is streamlined for swimming and unlike other turtles, they cannot retract their legs. Seven species of …
If you were at the April Extreme Dive Club Meeting, you’ll remember the comment where we asked Grady to write a blog post for this month. No, not the one he has written so far, but the one about diving after “bypass surgery.” This is what he wrote: “Don’t take your wife to the doctor …
You’ve arrived at your tropical ocean destination and perhaps have even done a day or two of diving already and then somebody asks if you’d like to go on a night dive in the ocean. Why would you want to go on a nighttime ocean dive? It’s dark out there. Ocean night dives are one …
Are Lionfish a Problem in the Caribbean?? Lionfish are a venomous species of scorpionfish that are not native to the Caribbean. They are a beautiful treasured fish in aquariums that through purposeful and accidental release have been released in the American Tropics, Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico. Lionfish are believed to have shown up …
Working with students has been a GREAT joy to me for several reasons. The first brings me back to Mike. He was the first student I had responsibility for. We were on a live-aboard in the Bahamas. He had some reservations about the first dive in the ocean. When we got in the water, he …
Many times people ask “how did you get started SCUBA diving?” Well, let me tell you, SCUBA Diving was not something I thought I would ever want to do. How it started, Grady won classes at a charity auction so he and his brother took classes. They became Open Water SCUBA Divers. Several months later, …
One of the most asked questions if wanting to learn to SCUBA Dive is “what about sharks”? What about them? Sharks are an awesome and wondrous sight to see. There are over 440 known species of sharks. However, we only get to see a few of these while Scuba Diving. Nurse Sharks Nope, they don’t …
Diving every month…..why would anyone living in the Midwest dive every month? In the words of Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof, “I’ll tell you – I don’t know. But it’s a tradition…” I was certified to dive in July 2003, then dove in Beaver Lake in August and Hawaii in September. Beaver Lake again …