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We are planning a very cool new trip the week of June 6 to 13th....The will be a DIR Adventure Dive trip, I will get Halcyon Demo gear and some well known DIR divers 
to be on the dives with you...and the dive sites will be largely 70 feet or less in this trip to accomodate single tank diving....( I "could" switch this to deeper and doubles based diving if enough of you really prefer this--and we have a boat spectacular for doubles, with room for a second set of doubles under your seat, and massive room to walk around and not be crowded--this boat is Narcosis..you can find it in South Florida Dive Journal > Home ).
My initial plan, is to take you guys to the most colorful and vibrant reefs Palm Beach has, notably Horseshoe, Pauls and parts of Breakers and DelRay that are really spectacular.
For many of these reefs you have our classic multi-level potential, where you can get dropped on the offshore side at 90 or 100 or so, spend 5 minutes, then begin swimming up the slope of the offshore walls, and reach the crown in a minute to 3 minutes at the 37 to 40 foot depth range.....the crown is about 50 to 100 yards wide over many of the reefs we would be at, meaning you can swim leisurely across it, looking for sea turtles, lobster, and the life found in this extremely lush area....and as you reach the west( inshore side), you hit the inshore ledge--typically 45 feet on top, to 55 to 65 on the bottom of the ledge where it meets the sand.
These reefs are a dream for u/w photographers, and for DIR people, these represent many cool issues for you to play with.....when we swim across the reef crown, across the drift current, this is incredibly effortless when done flat horizontal, with jet fins ( or my freedive fins)...sideways to the current will create some challenges for non-DIR divers using biofins and some forms of splits, that don't work well sideways to current---certainly we can find some split fin lovers to help us with this "research project"
The shallow crown allows DIR ideas of deco to be exercised, between the deep first few minutes, and the choices the diver makes on the remainder of the dive.
If we have a day with the correct wind conditions, we can run the boat out to the "weed mats" durring the surface interval, where something like a Sargasso Sea can be played in--you get under it, either with snorkel, or tanks with 1000 psi ( or lots less) and discover the outrageous camoulflaged life that lives in these mats..you are not more than 3 feet deep, and can come up through the mat if you need to--to surface, but usually you would swim to the side first, and come up outside of it.
Below, the vis can run to 400 foot visibilty---deep gulf stream clear water over 500 to 1000 foot depths. As we drift under the mats, massive schools of Bonitas or other pelagics will often visit the mat...and we can hang the flashers that blue water freedivers use to pull these vast schools up for a look..... Again, this is just one possible thing we can do, out of MANY.
We can have some groups do some scooter diving, with their own flags, and we will have buddy teams doing exactly the dives they want to do....there are many choices--you will sit down with me, go over what you like most, and we will plan it.
We will have the Blue Heron Bridge Marine Park on some of these days, considered as an after diving or part of unlimitted shore diving after the boat dives....
The Hilton on Singer Island is giving us an even better deal than before--this will be UNDER $120 per night for our group!!! And, they have a new DIVER DOWN CAFE menu they created for the diving market--our nutritional needs, our ideas about how much meals should cost, and how good things should taste
The Hotel Shuttle service is operating now, so NO ONE will have to get a rental car....the Shuttle takes you to the boats, to the other attractions on the island, to the Ocean mall, and to the BHB...even as far as Seasons 52 if desired. For NON-diving family, there will be an enormous range of activities and things to do--so it WILL be a fun vacation for them as well.
If interested, and if you have questions, email me at
dan@sfdj.com
Also know, Pura Vida Divers will probably be running a special color management workshop for U/W photographers during this same time period ( they brought in an incredible expert at this)---it will be about how to make your printer print the same colors and lighting you see on your screen ( from Lightroom or photoshop) , along with some special u/w specific training in LR and PS....This is separate, but there could be "interplay" for some of you if you like.
to be on the dives with you...and the dive sites will be largely 70 feet or less in this trip to accomodate single tank diving....( I "could" switch this to deeper and doubles based diving if enough of you really prefer this--and we have a boat spectacular for doubles, with room for a second set of doubles under your seat, and massive room to walk around and not be crowded--this boat is Narcosis..you can find it in South Florida Dive Journal > Home ). My initial plan, is to take you guys to the most colorful and vibrant reefs Palm Beach has, notably Horseshoe, Pauls and parts of Breakers and DelRay that are really spectacular.
For many of these reefs you have our classic multi-level potential, where you can get dropped on the offshore side at 90 or 100 or so, spend 5 minutes, then begin swimming up the slope of the offshore walls, and reach the crown in a minute to 3 minutes at the 37 to 40 foot depth range.....the crown is about 50 to 100 yards wide over many of the reefs we would be at, meaning you can swim leisurely across it, looking for sea turtles, lobster, and the life found in this extremely lush area....and as you reach the west( inshore side), you hit the inshore ledge--typically 45 feet on top, to 55 to 65 on the bottom of the ledge where it meets the sand.
These reefs are a dream for u/w photographers, and for DIR people, these represent many cool issues for you to play with.....when we swim across the reef crown, across the drift current, this is incredibly effortless when done flat horizontal, with jet fins ( or my freedive fins)...sideways to the current will create some challenges for non-DIR divers using biofins and some forms of splits, that don't work well sideways to current---certainly we can find some split fin lovers to help us with this "research project"
The shallow crown allows DIR ideas of deco to be exercised, between the deep first few minutes, and the choices the diver makes on the remainder of the dive.
If we have a day with the correct wind conditions, we can run the boat out to the "weed mats" durring the surface interval, where something like a Sargasso Sea can be played in--you get under it, either with snorkel, or tanks with 1000 psi ( or lots less) and discover the outrageous camoulflaged life that lives in these mats..you are not more than 3 feet deep, and can come up through the mat if you need to--to surface, but usually you would swim to the side first, and come up outside of it.
Below, the vis can run to 400 foot visibilty---deep gulf stream clear water over 500 to 1000 foot depths. As we drift under the mats, massive schools of Bonitas or other pelagics will often visit the mat...and we can hang the flashers that blue water freedivers use to pull these vast schools up for a look..... Again, this is just one possible thing we can do, out of MANY.
We can have some groups do some scooter diving, with their own flags, and we will have buddy teams doing exactly the dives they want to do....there are many choices--you will sit down with me, go over what you like most, and we will plan it.
We will have the Blue Heron Bridge Marine Park on some of these days, considered as an after diving or part of unlimitted shore diving after the boat dives....
The Hilton on Singer Island is giving us an even better deal than before--this will be UNDER $120 per night for our group!!! And, they have a new DIVER DOWN CAFE menu they created for the diving market--our nutritional needs, our ideas about how much meals should cost, and how good things should taste
The Hotel Shuttle service is operating now, so NO ONE will have to get a rental car....the Shuttle takes you to the boats, to the other attractions on the island, to the Ocean mall, and to the BHB...even as far as Seasons 52 if desired. For NON-diving family, there will be an enormous range of activities and things to do--so it WILL be a fun vacation for them as well.
If interested, and if you have questions, email me at
dan@sfdj.com
Also know, Pura Vida Divers will probably be running a special color management workshop for U/W photographers during this same time period ( they brought in an incredible expert at this)---it will be about how to make your printer print the same colors and lighting you see on your screen ( from Lightroom or photoshop) , along with some special u/w specific training in LR and PS....This is separate, but there could be "interplay" for some of you if you like.
