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2007 Remembered - Your Best Dive
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1_T_Submariner
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It's a tie for me.
Two Dive trips.
1. Uss Oriskany (Did 4 dives all spectacular)
1. A week at Buddy Dive in Bonaire (Jerry's reef was the best dive).
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How about yours Rick?
Two Dive trips.
1. Uss Oriskany (Did 4 dives all spectacular)
1. A week at Buddy Dive in Bonaire (Jerry's reef was the best dive).
Edit:
How about yours Rick?
Whoa! Well now....
The two dives with each of my two sons immediately after they got certified?
Any of the dives with my wife?
The dive at Arrow Cove, Catalina, when my "insta buddy" (who had done over 1000 dives in seveteen years but never dived Arrow Cove) hit the surface and told me that the dive was in one of his top ten!
Heck...they're all best dives in one way or another.
Ian
The two dives with each of my two sons immediately after they got certified?
Any of the dives with my wife?
The dive at Arrow Cove, Catalina, when my "insta buddy" (who had done over 1000 dives in seveteen years but never dived Arrow Cove) hit the surface and told me that the dive was in one of his top ten!
Heck...they're all best dives in one way or another.
Ian
Well, I guess there must be a best and a worst dive if one actually ranks them. I guess my best dive of 2007 would be the dive I saw and filmed a thornback ray on. In 38 years of diving here off Catalina, I'd never seen one here before (although they are fairly common on the mainland). I got enough footage to use in my upcoming Sharks and Rays of So. California so it was a great dive.
I'm hoping my best dive of 2008 will involve meeting the dive buddy of my dreams.... yes, I know, dream on!
I'm hoping my best dive of 2008 will involve meeting the dive buddy of my dreams.... yes, I know, dream on!
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Best dive ???
There've been so many ... but my last one would have to rate up there among them ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
There've been so many ... but my last one would have to rate up there among them ...
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
How to choose? The dive in Dos Ojos with Kevin and Danny, where I absolutely KNEW that cave diving was for me? Or the encounter with the six gill shark from just the other night? Or a hundred feet of viz on oil rig Eureka off Los Angeles?
But I think just maybe, the very finest dive of 2007 was the second dive through the Devil's Ear at Ginnie Springs. To begin with, I was in a state of euphoria and unreality about just BEING in that place. I had seen so many pictures of the place, with the dry-suited divers floating in the clear spring water, and now I was the diver in the picture. And as we did the dive, I was hearing snatches of dive reports in my head, describing the Gallery, and the Lips, and the Keyhole. I knew them all, but now I was THERE. (And why the second dive? The first one, I was struggling so hard, I barely got to see where I was
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But I think just maybe, the very finest dive of 2007 was the second dive through the Devil's Ear at Ginnie Springs. To begin with, I was in a state of euphoria and unreality about just BEING in that place. I had seen so many pictures of the place, with the dry-suited divers floating in the clear spring water, and now I was the diver in the picture. And as we did the dive, I was hearing snatches of dive reports in my head, describing the Gallery, and the Lips, and the Keyhole. I knew them all, but now I was THERE. (And why the second dive? The first one, I was struggling so hard, I barely got to see where I was
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It's a tie between 2 for me also:
1) While shoring diving in Maui last Jan we found a cleaning station with about 10 manta rays! They were swimming all around us and seemed just as curious about us as we were of them. They would swim right towards us and then go over or around us...definitely close enough to touch at times. It was awazing! Here's a video, which doesn't do it justice but it gives you an idea. YouTube - Mantas in Maui
2) It was our 2nd dive of the day off the Cypress Sea in Monterey. It was actually my 2nd dive ever in Monterey. We anchored at Hopkins Reserve and there were seals popping their heads out of the water all around us! As soon as we decended I felt a tug on my fins. At first I thought I had snagged some kelp but when I turned to look there was this adorable seal looking at me with curious eyes. It posed for a few pics (my avatar) and then swam away. The entire dive was more of the same with different seals. One time I had 3 of them swimming around my feet, nipping at my fins, and rubbing on my legs. It was an unforgettable dive, to say the least. Here's a video of one of them. YouTube - Seal in Monterey
1) While shoring diving in Maui last Jan we found a cleaning station with about 10 manta rays! They were swimming all around us and seemed just as curious about us as we were of them. They would swim right towards us and then go over or around us...definitely close enough to touch at times. It was awazing! Here's a video, which doesn't do it justice but it gives you an idea. YouTube - Mantas in Maui
2) It was our 2nd dive of the day off the Cypress Sea in Monterey. It was actually my 2nd dive ever in Monterey. We anchored at Hopkins Reserve and there were seals popping their heads out of the water all around us! As soon as we decended I felt a tug on my fins. At first I thought I had snagged some kelp but when I turned to look there was this adorable seal looking at me with curious eyes. It posed for a few pics (my avatar) and then swam away. The entire dive was more of the same with different seals. One time I had 3 of them swimming around my feet, nipping at my fins, and rubbing on my legs. It was an unforgettable dive, to say the least. Here's a video of one of them. YouTube - Seal in Monterey
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200' wall dive with my two tech buddies where we had 60' vis, amazing structure, found a truck (no body), and everything was executed on the money. Seeing my two buddies hanging off that wall, which dropped down below us another 600', in the pitch dark with their HID's playing out against the wall structure, and knowing that just two years ago doing dives like this was just a dream... I had an epiphany that day, a thrill that was indescribable.
The last dive of the Tec Deep course last January, at Forty Fathom, down to the Chevy van. We're descending along the down line, and I turned my light off for a moment, so that I was descending in water that seemed to be inky black, yet crystal clear (I was probably just narced and it wasn't that way, but who cares). I turned my light back on and there below me was the tree trunk that I had been told about so I had an instant reorientation, and the top of the van was just below. I dropped to the silt and planted my depth gauge and remember thinking - "Wow, I am diving at 160'!'
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