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[boomx5]

I was on another website ( non scuba related ) and heard about something called geocaching. I looks like something that would be a blast to try if you had a GPS. I was wondering if anybody had an idea how hard it would be to adapt it for scuba diving?www.geocaching.com
Scott

 

[Spectre]

Definately a cool thing. I was digging around the site a little, and I already found that there is some threads about underwater caches... I'd check them out. I signed up, and I think I might start playing around with it this summer when not diving, and perhaps I'll start hiding caches on my dives

 

[otter-cat]

Wow, that looks really cool! A game to play with my GPS! I was just wondering the other day what I could do with my GPS, now that I don't use it for geologic mapping anymore. I wonder what kind of stuff would be good to leave in an underwater cache....

Suggestions, anyone?

otter-cat

 

[Fishkiller]

Well I went to the site looked around, retrieved my GPS, logged on and did quick search for Caches around my home...There are 10 within 5 miles....going tonight to search...

it would be really difficult to make a Scuba version as GPS don't like being used underwater. Now you could mark a spot on the surface, but not all people have a boat...

they have pumkin hunts and such around Halloween and Easter

I know I once I get into this Geocaching I to will want to leave a underwater one as well..


33 23.057N
111 48.741W
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(WGS84)
is the best DIVE SHOP in the entire area

 

[Spectre]

Originally posted by Fishkiller
it would be really difficult to make a Scuba version as GPS don't like being used underwater. Now you could mark a spot on the surface, but not all people have a boat

The ones that I have seen described on there are GPS for a point on shore, along with a compass bearing and distance from that GPS point. Some have the cache at that point, some have something that gives another GPS point on shore to find the actual cache.

 

[Fishkiller]

my brain was a little dry

I like that way better

 

[boomx5]

I went to Best Buy today and bought a $99.00 gps. After finding
the closest cache on the geocaching website, I took my wife and kids on our first "caching" adventure. We really had a lot of fun searching for hidden treasure as a family. I think it's going to be a lot of fun once I can search for hidden underwater caches. If you guys have not tried this yet, you got to give it a try.

 

[Fishkiller]

Well I can find the location easy enough but I forgot about the rules of diving and didn't plan completly...Clues do help if you bring them with you...

My buddy and I found the first one easy the next three were not
read the clues at home and will get them first thing in the morning as once the clues were read I knew exactly where I wasn't looking.

By the end of our searching we came up the idea of leaving a cache at the end of the rope in a water proof container near a local scuba diving spot..

 

[boomx5]

Well I went caching again today. There are about 750 caches within a short drive from my house. I went to the website (geocaching.com) and found an underwater one on Maui. If any of you get a chance to go to Maui let me know what you find in it.
Scott

 

[randyjoy]

Finally, an excuse to buy a GPS!!! 'Gonna get one Saturday!

This sounds like way too much fun when combined with diving!