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    Dive reports with beach/weather conditions

    date 12/27 time in 3:22pm time out 4:20 location just north 1/2 mile of fishing pier 3 miles west of shore on dive charter index Good vis 7-10 ft, water temp 65 25' fsw Found nice 1" mako, but, wasnt looking for teeth , mostly taking in aquatic reef fish, lots of fossil...
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    Diver reported missing in 40 Fathom Grotto

    I was their today with adv students, but, knew something was wrong when Hal recommendend me to go to blue grotto with students , I didnt stay long enough to ask questions since a loth of sherrif cars and dive teams were gearing up. I hope we can learn what happened and what mistakes can be...
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    6th Annual ScubaBoard Birthday & Fossiling Bash - July 26, 2008 at Venice, FL (Take2)

    Count me in with my raft. Its only capable of carying 2 people with 4 tanks and has a small (3.5 HP motor). I will hang at the drop off site for safety purposes after I get 2 dives in of course. Thanks
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    Scared the s..t out of me

    This happened to me at 40 fathom grotto, we were doing a AOW dive and on our ascent from 110 ft , 2 students and myself, we stopped at 40ft to check out the prehistoric sea biscuttes and to level our bouyency , I noticed rubble and dirt falling on us and thought "darn its starting to rain...
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    Venice conditions December

    12/08/2008 Vis 25+ Minumum temp 71 dive 1 in 11:16 out 12:40 dive 2 in 1:55pm out 3:03 The best vis so far this year, found a nice Meg and many small ones, not sure who we ran into underwater, but sure scared the heck out of some solo diver, he ascending way too quick and didnt see him...
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    Venice conditions December

    12/02 in 2:45 out 4:04 temp 71 vis 20+ , when I hit 20FSW I looked up and could see the flag quite easily, found 100 small ones and 3 sleeping seahorses happend to have my camera so I took a picture of one , tried not to spook em as ya know how bad the seahorse stampede could be
  7. Sleeping seahorse front side

    Sleeping seahorse front side

    didnt want to spook it as ya know a stampede could ensue
  8. Venice Florida lone seahorse sleeping

    Venice Florida lone seahorse sleeping

    This is the back side
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    Venice conditions December

    Thanks for starting December tooth. I will be diving Alhambra beach at 8:00am and 10:00am for second dive and probably Sunday with some newly certified divers
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    5th Annual Scubaboard Saturday after Thanksgiving Turkey Fry!

    After seeing all the women divers my wife decided to maybe take up diving...lol. , we thouroughly enjoyed meeting everyone and look forward to more gatherings. Thanks Colin
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    Venice beach conditions November 2007

    11-19 sorry , dove alhambra , fossil bed at 15ft is uncovered and found about 100 small ones and found a half Meg.
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    Venice beach conditions November 2007

    11-19-2007 in 10:30 viz 8-12 ft at 15FSW at 21FSW viz was even better out 11:50 water temp 67F not too bad yet , viz helps stay warm
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    Venice beach conditions November 2007

    went today at SHarkeys pier , vis 4-8 inshore then when I reached the fossil area vis was 8 - 12 not bad vis, but, the beach renoureshement pretty much ruined the reef at the 21 foot depth as all the rocks are covered with sand now , sand and dead shells absolutly nothing worth diving for...
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    5th Annual Scubaboard Saturday after Thanksgiving Turkey Fry!

    Looks just like the one posted on the sign , it was located on the no parking sign since Saturday January 3rd until, now, perhaps someone removed it from the sign and dropped it in the water. I am surprised it lasted this long, usually tourists/snowbirds take em, I wish all the teeth are as...
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    Venice Sat 11/10

    I have found the NOAA listing below to be the most accurate, this is actually located on sharkeys pier and if there is a "W" in the wind then diving is usually no good...I have dove in 25kts , but, wind was E and steadily out of the east for several hours . NDBC - Station VENF1...
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    Venice beach conditions November 2007

    Water temp 73 , near shore 0 vis. start of first fossil bed at 15ft vis seemd to be 20ft top to bottom, I could see flag from bottom. further out 20ft seemed to diminish to 8-12 ft vis , spotty clarity. seemed like a clear channel of water running through 15-17 FSW area. Firs photo...
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    5th Annual Scubaboard Saturday after Thanksgiving Turkey Fry!

    I hope to make it , my son ...with his girlfriend will be here and my daughter with her boyfriend so maybe if all the girls go shopping the boys can go diving ....yayahoooooo, or the girls will tag along if it appears the boys might get into too much fun, I will bring a cooler of drinks.
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    Venice beach conditions November 2007

    Venice conditions for November Here is my experience for Venice wind is a large factor for beach diving conditions Generally anything < 5kts will be fair to good E < 20kts probably good ( we actually dove in a East 25k gusts and was 20 ft vis , no one else was around due to wind...
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    Venice Sharks tooth, urgent read please

    I actually was bruised up by a heard of stampeding sea horses once, it was a horrible experience and I would not reccomend diving in the 3 fathoms of Venice without an experienced wrangler ever again. As that write bye poster mentioned about returning with 1000psi is gospel to live by. That...
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    Should I be scared of diving with this guy?

    Perhaps this diver in question dives so much he is showing the signs of impairment of cognitive function and brain bruising caused by deep diving see: Log In Problems its stone crab season lighten up, I need someone to hold the flashlight whats his e-mail address?
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