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Which resort?
and I checked all my messages, it appears you forgot to invite me.....
Grand Cayman's next spring.
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Which resort?
and I checked all my messages, it appears you forgot to invite me.....
Grand Cayman's next spring. We are staying at sunscape. We want to do Cayman Brac. That may be next year but it depends on where our dive club decides to go. They tend to go to Bonnaire every other year. Bonnair is nice and you can dive a lot but it is a lot of work as well.
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Hey folks, here is an update on the progress of the missus and her dive certification. Three tries in the open water test, first two cancelled middle of the dive testing due to insanely bad conditions. It was more like seal or coastguard training then a simple open water certification test. Nevertheless the third time was the charm for her. She has now made 27 dives with me. Deepest 76 feet so far. Here is a link to some of the photo's we have taken. It's such a pleasure to be back in the water with my best friend sharing it with me! She is also pretty hardy diving in Puget Sound. 47-52 degree water for multiple dives per day. Can't wait to get her into a tropical high vis location with light weight equipment and 40-60 foot visibility compared to 4-8 feet here at times! Click here for some of her photo's this year. These were taken with an Olympus TG-4 point and shoot camera. Although I have an external flash on it. It's pretty freaking dark in the sound at 50 feet deep or more. https://goo.gl/photos/i6hu7wcxEAc5rBQbAWhat was the water temperature? I know the Sound is not warm!
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Advanced PADI. Great Lakes diver tho - never seen a pretty fish.
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I got PADI and NAUI certs about 20 years ago, but just never kept up with it. Did our open water qual dives in Whittier in dry suits. Cold water diving just doesn't turn my crank. We're going to Costa Rica for our 25th next spring. May have to take a refresher course, and enjoy some warm water diving.
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4 dives today, 58min, 59min, 60 And a 45min quickie to burn the rest of a tank. Water temp is a balmy 84 degrees. A 3mm was to much. Vis 100-150 ft. Lots of marine life. The reefs are in very good condition. Now I remember why work so hard.
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My oldest boy and myself are Padi advance certified. Wife and daughter are open water certified. Next week-end youngest boy 11 years old will get open water certified. We go to Cayman in August for vacation.
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Confession time, pangs of envy here.....You're killing me......
Cool to see you rockin that Luna!
Eel pic is epic. 4 footer?
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First thought was you're diving with the octo! that yellow hose threw me!
www.huntingadventures.netAre you living your life, or just paying bills until you die? When you hit the pearly gates I want to be there just to see the massive pile of dead 5hit at your feet. ( John Peyton)
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I am since 1987, current level Advanced Scuba; oldest son (18 year old) is Advanced Scuba; Wife is open water, 15 year old daughter is open water and 11 son is open water.
Oldest son and I are working on our Rescue Diver cert
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Cool pics WeimsnKs!
I was certified PADI when I was 17 but haven't done much diving since I was 18-19 years old. Might have to get recertified next time I'm in Maui.
That's ok, I'll ass shoot a dink.
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Confession time, pangs of envy here.....You're killing me......
Cool to see you rockin that Luna!
Eel pic is epic. 4 footer? The eel is probably at least 6ft. The pic doesn't do it justice. If you blow up the pic, you can see the screen I dive. This is the full screen. If you don't care about all the info or your vision is iffy, you can go to the large font screen. I normally dive a 3 mil but the water was to warm. I dove in a rash guard and shorts all week. Had to be careful on one dive. Fire coral was everywhere. That is not something you want to range with.
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https://goo.gl/photos/i6hu7wcxEAc5rBQbAThose pictures are from cold water diving, 49-52 deg 2' to 15 foot visibility. Around vancouver island the visibility is better 30-50 feet but still very cold diving.
www.huntingadventures.netAre you living your life, or just paying bills until you die? When you hit the pearly gates I want to be there just to see the massive pile of dead 5hit at your feet. ( John Peyton)
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https://goo.gl/photos/i6hu7wcxEAc5rBQbAThose pictures are from cold water diving, 49-52 deg 2' to 15 foot visibility. Around vancouver island the visibility is better 30-50 feet but still very cold diving. "Cool" pics - What wreck was that?
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Cool pics WeimsnKs!
. Might have to get recertified next time I'm in Maui. Seriously, "Might"? Hawaiian Rafting Adventures, super good people, very reasonable rates. HRA does a lot of dives in and around the underwater volcano formations just off Lanai. Spinner Dolphins swimming along side us was off the charts cool. HRA
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Now that you mention the yellow hose on the second stage,
it all makes sense.
When using the Air2 as your octo, you put the normal yellow octo hose on the second stage. A color coded heads up to your fellow divers..
Good idea.
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I was scuba certified in 1990. Haven't been diving since then.
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Just a few pics of the dive trip... Nice photos. What camera/lens/strobe?
"There's more to optics than meets the eye."--anon
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