Pumpkins
Originally I was going to join a buddy down at lake Ouichita for a pumpkin carving contest. Wasn`t able to make it down that far... my dive buddy`s gf was very involved in activities at the university homecoming, so we couldn`t take off like that. So we hit Beaver lake instead and got in some great diving. We started Friday night and figured we`d ledge out to around 100` and then progress back up the steps until we were at 15 for safety. When we got down to around 70` he signaled up. He told me ...
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Fun at the lake
We had a great weekend down at the lake this weekend. Steve and I went down on Friday and got a couple of dives in over at the north dam site. The first we dropped down to around 105` and then came across a sunfish sail boat at about 77` on our way up. We diddled around the boat for a while before continuing up and following terrain around for safety stop depth. The next dive in that sequence we set 80` as our hard deck level. Where we went in we ran out of down at 63` though. It was definitely ...
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Finishing Coursework
I headed down Thursday to hang out with friends and then headed to the lakehouse on Friday morning. Joe had told me that Mark was down doing some work on the boat, so figured I`d drop in and see what help I could be on the matter. Steve and his son Davis were down also and we got quite a lot done. When we had our work finished up, Steve, Davis and I took a couple dives in the cove behind the house. Nothing really monumental, but we gave Davis the lead for some navigation skills and he did a pret...
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A good weekend at Beaver Lake
I initially was thinking of hitting Oronogo this last weekend, but was talking with Joe and Mark up at the shop and decided to take a trip down to Beaver with the shop crew. That trip slate had been posted as full, but there were 2 padi referals and one fun diver that rescheduled. So I put myself on the list and headed down. It was a pretty good mix of people. There were two other fun divers down this weekend, neither who had ever dived in fresh water, specifically cold fresh water. They had a b...
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Stress and Rescue Weekend
Figured I`d be a bit busy to do anything with the camera this weekend so I didn`t even take it along. So not picture with this entry Knowing we were going to be worn out Sunday we decided to go down early and do some fun diving on Friday evening. Was a beautiful day. We took the boat out to Starky`s Island and Robert and I buddied up and Mark, Steve, and Joe buddied up. Robert and I surface swam around to the south side of the island where the channel cut laid. Our plan was to drop to around 100...
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Two things I forgot to mention
While we were doing our North Damsite dives when we got past the forest shelf we found a dropoff cliff that we could see bottom. The shelf was about 60 feet and we could see the floor about 20 feet below. So we did our slow motion cliff diving imitations there. It was kind of silly, but still pretty fun. Topside, Margaret told us that a couple of jetskis had been using our dive bouy for target practice. Unfortunately for them, there was a sheriff on shore watching them, so they each got about a ...
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Going Deep
Last weekend was great weather down at Beaver Lake. Went down with my dive shop for a weekend trip. Initially I was going to finish up my advanced course work but there was a bit of a snag with instructors so I just went fun diving. Wound up that Lee didn`t have any dive cons with him for this trip so I offered to help him out in whatever way he needed. Pretty much I took care of the boat for him and helped his class into and out of the water. I buddied up with one of the guys in the class for a...
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DUI Days at Beaver Lake
Went down and stayed with Robert in Fayetteville. We hit the DUI Demo day both Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was about 35 degrees out and most of us were wondering why scuba diving would have come to mind under such conditions. Sunday was a nice sunny day and I thought the absolute perfect day for Dry Suit diving. Had some bouyancy issues on Saturday, but got them ironed out on Sunday. Had great bouyancy control Sunday. We took the camera and big light out on Sunday and played a bit. Some of the...
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