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New Years Day dive.
What a blast the dive was today! It was an early start at 6am so needless to say I didn`t do a whole lot of celebrating when the ball dropped at midnight last night. The weather was supposed to be fairly extreme for the day and that just made it more interesting for me. However, after it was all said and done, the 4"-6" of snow never made it. There was just a dusting on the ground with a few flurries. The temperature was 30 degrees with wind gusts up to 30mph. It was a 2 hour drive to the Gilboa...
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Pumkin Carving Dive
Well I am not much for blogging but I suppose I will give it a shot! We did the annual Pumpkin Carving Dive last weekend at Gilboa Quarry in Ohio. It wasn`t a carving contest as in past years. We just decided to get together and have a good time. There was roughly a dozen divers in the group, but the quarry was busy with other dive classes and fun dives going on. We seemed to be the only group carving pumpkins and we got lots of strange looks too. Which seemed odd to me, because I thought everyo...
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My Dolphin Encounter
Back in 2004, I was stationed down in Cuba for a year with the Army. I was fortunate enough to be able to do some diving in my spare time, and it was phenominal! One of my more memorable dives was the day I was visited by a pod of 6 dolphins. It wasn`t unusual to see dolphins on the surface riding the wake of the boats and playing in the middle of the bay area. But hardly ever had any divers encountered them under the surface. I was not only lucky enough to have been graced by their presence, bu...
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