Search results

A recent dive trip

My wife has not shore dove in Florida other than BHB. So we are coming down and trying these dive sites. We are staying on the beach - Ocean Treasure Beachside and have access to as many tanks as we can use - I am hoping for 2 to 4 dives a day. Shore diving Monday through Thursday. Blue Heron...

So if you have time tonight Sat 7/25 9pm - History Channel - The UneXplained- S02 E03 Mysterious Curses - Round Valley Reservoir - I have 15 secs of GoPro video in the show... William Shatner is the moderator - I am not in the clip but my video is.. My 15 secs of fame - freshwater - 75 houses...

Looked at the Shark River bridge but there were too many fishermen - so we chose A Street. The only folks at A Street were divers and a freediver. It looked green from above but I could see vertically maybe 5 to 8 feet. Turned out to be about 2 to 3 foot viz once in - tropicals were in and a...

So with my drysuit it took about 50 dives before I felt ok and capable and until 100 dives before I really understood and could predict how my suit would behave in shallow and deep waters before I needed to react. How long does it take for a DPV? I kick occasionally to keep an even keel - I...

For me I was looking for a place to dive that would accommodate my wife who was a new OW diver. Had 4 dives after being certified and only dove in NJ - once in the ocean and 3 times in fresh water - all of them were shore dives. She was hesitant about a giant stride off a boat and was not...

I am going to Coco View for the first time and I realized I have not seen any postings about dive flags. Is it not required for beach dives? Not an issue for night dives? Thanks.

General question - Florida Boca Rotan to Hollywood shore diving currents. Are the currents always strong or is it based on wind, tides and weather? In other words are they always there? Are late spring, summer and early fall the best times to dive with the least currents? I am planning some...

So I thought I would head down to the shore and try a new spot. The drive down was uneventful I got to Lake Como in Spring Lake - ocean dive. There are supposed to be some rock formations off the shore. I started getting dressed and felt like I was in a fishbowl being watched... I assume these...

All - I am planning a dive off Green Bridge to Gooseberry (arches) - I am also looking at Surfers End into Purgatory Chasm if the weather / waves cooperates and up toward Easton Point. I have a DPV and should be ok... Does anyone dive off of 40 Steps? I figured off season it may be worth a...

So I finally sat down to talk about my experience with DPVs. A year+ ago I went to a local quarry and did a DPV trial with SubGravity DPV’s. I grabbed a DPV and took off – how hard can this be? I must admit I was completely baffled on how to steer them and why a DPV was needed. I remember...

Went out to Dual Wrecks as a shore dive today - beautiful day and I was really looking forward to it... No video no photos - I am going to blame the US Army Corp of Engineers and the sand replenishment project... Dove through the surf and waves to get to what should have been a 22 to 25 foot...

This is a very general OW not Cave question - I have seen the Tahoe Benchmark Reports - but I don't think this has been posed... If you run a DPV at cruise speed for say 50% run time speed (arbitrary percentage by me) and then switch to or hit max speed - how long would you expect the DPV to...

So this is one off and I could not find a thread that was similar. Started looking at the some of the more popular DIY sites on how to create Nitrox. My question to me is straight forward but I am sure the answers coming back will be - so here goes... I am trying to understand why in Pseudo...

Seahorses and I spent some time together - about 45 mins and 9 foot average depth. Very peaceful and quiet evening...

We did an hour dive but it was funny... Divers Two was hosting an OW Rototilling Event... 30 mins into the dive I was getting mugged while I was videoing - literally divers were stepping on me while I was in a prone position taking video... Divers crashing into us and making the viz something to...

So I planned my dive on the Stolt Dagali of the NJ Coast. Sand is about 125 feet and the wreck goes up to about 70 feet. I used Subsurface software which I have used before and calculated my dive times and gas usage. I was going to just use air for the entire dive but realized my second dive...

First dive from the surface to about 50 or 60 feet was pea soup. Once below it opened back up to 25 to 35 foot viz. It was tied in at the top of the stern. I dove to the bottom to 124 feet on the first dive. Not much down there but I have some video. Wreckage and some fish - empty lobster trap...

USS Algol - Shark River Reef - sunk in 1991 - 130 feet to the sand but the main deck is about 100 feet - the superstructure in the photo is a multi level - 90, 80 and 70ish feet - give or take. We tied in at the bow of the ship - Gypsy Blood another dive op was tied in on the superstructure when...

First I am extremely disappointed in the GoPro video taken but I will claim it is not my fault. At this point it is rendered unusable unless I can continue to play with it and find a way to save some footage... After watching the weather and buoys all week with 6 foot seas and 6 second...