Well put:
appreciating the simpler things.
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I can't agree with you more. Whenever I talk about going somewhere, the first question in my mind is "is there somewhere there I can dive?"
and all the rest who just like being underwater. I even like the dives where you literally can see nothing at all. For me there is no point in leaving Ky unless there is diving involved.
Tim Ingersoll
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Okay! You guys win. I am convinced. Tonight I'm going to slip under the cover of the neighbors pool, chip through the ice, and dive in the two feet of unfrozen water between the eighteen inches of ice and the bottom of the pool. Seriously, I have had this discussion on other threads. You will all be happy (or dismayed) to learn that I will be doing my first fresh water diving in the Thousand Islands this summer. If I hadn't found this board I never would have tried it. Thanks.
would say--you're being assimilated. Soon you will see the true light
Tim Ingersoll
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Resistance is futile!
Rice
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I'm thinking that the 72 degree water of ginnie speings is downright warm!
It is a wonderful luxury to have so many great diving opprotunities near me.
It is a wonderful luxury to have so many great diving opprotunities near me.
Amber
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Some of my friends that dive do not understand why I get excited about diving at the local grotto. They say the viz is bad (I don't think 20' is that bad compared to what I've read in some of the other posts) that is cold (oh boo hoo, cry me a river and drown in it) and that there is nothing to see. I love diving. That's enough of a reason for me.
Amber
Amber
You got it Amber...it's fun enough just being in the water.
And Rice...as far as you being near Ginnie goes....well...I have a few word for ya, but I don't think I should post them here..hehe. The water has got about 8 inches of ice on it right now around here!!!
And Rice...as far as you being near Ginnie goes....well...I have a few word for ya, but I don't think I should post them here..hehe. The water has got about 8 inches of ice on it right now around here!!!
more simpler things ...
first dive saturday was 40 minutes of flat bottom, murky viz and a gazillion shrimp goby (i like them by the way). then we saw a rope and lo and behold, it led to a discarded fishing net stuck to a sunken wooden trawler (wasn't much of the wood left, more of the rusted metal encrusted with hard and soft coral).
the weird thing was we saw a fish, still alive, stapped amongst the net. i can see how the little fella is stressed out. the net was wrapped all around it's body, including a couple of strands across the jaw. me handling it didn't help either. but it was that or death to the fish. so i cut away. (note to self - get a back-up cutting device - shears preferably).
we did our safety stop, and when we go to the surface, saw these ominous fins but was clearly not sharks. turned out they were a group (pod ?) of 5 or so juvie marlin (or looked like it) about 1.5M long.
what started out as humble expectations just to get wet once ended as a dive filled with good stuff. a DM i know said - you go find the good things about the dive, there's bound to be some.
first dive saturday was 40 minutes of flat bottom, murky viz and a gazillion shrimp goby (i like them by the way). then we saw a rope and lo and behold, it led to a discarded fishing net
stuck to a sunken wooden trawler (wasn't much of the wood left, more of the rusted metal encrusted with hard and soft coral).the weird thing was we saw a fish, still alive, stapped amongst the net. i can see how the little fella is stressed out. the net was wrapped all around it's body, including a couple of strands across the jaw. me handling it didn't help either. but it was that or death to the fish. so i cut away. (note to self - get a back-up cutting device - shears preferably).
we did our safety stop, and when we go to the surface, saw these ominous fins but was clearly not sharks. turned out they were a group (pod ?) of 5 or so juvie marlin (or looked like it) about 1.5M long.
what started out as humble expectations just to get wet once ended as a dive filled with good stuff. a DM i know said - you go find the good things about the dive, there's bound to be some.
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