Zana,
What dives are you doing in the morning, OW 1 & 2, or have you been diving?
I live 7 miles from vortex. they have a website with live cams,
www.vortexspring.com. I may dive there Sat. they are supposed to have fireworks., I may do a night dive.
What shop are you diving with? what agency are you getting certified with?
I was first certfified with NAUI in 74, curently SDI instructor rating, I decided this year not to teach any longer.
the weather has been bad lately. I do not think there will be any good gulf diving this weekend. PCB Jetties maybe SAT. Hig tide is at 2:01 PM, Sun it it at 8:51 AM. Last week the dredge was at the entrance, probably will not be a good dive.
Morrison will probably be closed, you will have to call Dennis and find out.
I dove it last weekend, it should have been closed. there were a couple of shops taking students in the water. Just from the surface, North of the platform, and down to do skills. Vis was only a couple of 5 feet. I did a solo dive, it's OK, I'm an instructor and SDI has a Solo cert. When I approached the springs, I saw a gator on the bottom about 2o + feet away. A very big gator about 24 - 30 inched accross at the shoulders. I continued my dive in another direction. When I returned, he wasgone, ...so I thought! I worked the top ledge on the North side for about 20 min at 27'. I then dropped down to 30+ for about 10 min. All of a sudden I was covered with a cloud of black silt. I could see nothing. My first response was that an instructor had ventured over this was with some students and they had stopped at the top of the ledge and dropped silt down on me. Thiswould have been foolish for new students, with the min vis and danger fo the caves/caverns. I thought that all but a few of the divers had already gotten out of the water.
I shot up and could see 25 ' in all directions, no other divers in site, just a 2' wide by 1' high gator silt trail toward the entrance of the tributary. I must have cornered him and cut him off, when he got a chance to get out he took it.
If you like, my wife and I can get together with you and dive
Tanks
Kris