Florida Divers! Year End Summary

[Manatee Diver]

I'll have to dig out my sweat pants!

Atleast you own pants, LOL!!

Meetings, weddings, & funerals are all in shorts

What are pants?

 

[scubadada]

I rescheduled my plans earlier in the week. Not a good weekend for diving!

I want all my friends in Florida to feel a little better. This is my house, about 15 miles west of Philadelphia. About 6 inches of snow so far, a few more hours to go. Seventeen degrees now, windy, wind chill of zero. Tonight 7-9 degrees.

Take care

 

[Divin'Papaw]

I want all my friends in Florida to feel a little better. This is my house, about 15 miles west of Philadelphia. About 6 inches of snow so far, a few more hours to go. Seventeen degrees now, windy, wind chill of zero. Tonight 7-9 degrees.

Take care

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Thx @scubadada! The company I work for is based in Cambridge and the whole Boston area is just getting pummeled today. So even though it’s chilly and super windy here, it’s sunny and the humidity is down and it’s really quite nice. So no complaints!

 

[CosbySweater]

I threw all my pants away when I moved down here. Couldn’t fit them in the uhaul.

I got out yesterday morning. Viz sucked so we’re not missing much by being stuck on land this weekend.

 

[boulderjohn]

The people who will complain are the people from those frozen states who scheduled their only annual vacation to South Florida over the last couple of weeks.

I have been in town two weeks now, and on one of those days I went out to the beach with relatives, and we sat in chairs and talked with our coats on. I took a walk this morning with a parka and ski hat. We'll have more time, and there could possibly be warmer days in February--so I am OK with it so far.

 

[scubadada]

Hi @boulderjohn

How many days of diving have you gotten in so far?

Even though I've had a townhouse just north of Boynton Beach for more than 10 years, I still begrudge lost diving days during my visits. I only get down for a week or two at a time and would dive every day if I could. That is often not possible, especially in late fall, winter, and early spring.

Of course, I did have water temps as low as 60 degrees last June Trip Report - Back in SE FL 2021 part 4

 

[boulderjohn]

Hi @boulderjohn

How many days of diving have you gotten in so far?

Even though I've had a townhouse just north of Boynton Beach for more than 10 years, I still begrudge lost diving days during my visits. I only get down for a week or two at a time and would dive every day if I could. That is often not possible, especially in late fall, winter, and early spring.

Of course, I did have water temps as low as 60 degrees last June Trip Report - Back in SE FL 2021 part 4

Two days of diving so far. One of the problems is with scheduled trips being canceled for lack of divers. Neither of the dives I did were the ones for which I was scheduled.

In the first case, I arrived early and set my gear next to the boat. All payment, liability waiver, etc. had been done online the day before. As the time for check in approached, it sure looked to me like the employees who were there were getting ready to perform boat maintenance, not go out for a dive. I asked about it, and I was told that, no, they were not diving that afternoon. They told me to check with the operator next door. When I did, I found other fully mystified divers who were supposed to be on my dive trip. The second operator knew something though, because they accepted our prepayment to the first operator.

So, miffed about all that, for the next dive, I booked with the second company. When I got there, I discovered that the trip for which I was booked had not filled; in fact, I was the only one scheduled to be on it. So I was referred back to the first company, which had scheduled its dive to leave a half hour earlier, so the boat was about to pull out. I scrambled and got me gear on board as it was about to pull out.

So neither dive went to the site for which I had signed up, neither was with the operator with whom I had signed up, and neither left at the time for which my dive was scheduled. On neither occasion did I receive any kind of communication telling me about changes.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Two days of diving so far. One of the problems is with scheduled trips being canceled for lack of divers. Neither of the dives I did were the ones for which I was scheduled.

In the first case, I arrived early and set my gear next to the boat. All payment, liability waiver, etc. had been done online the day before. As the time for check in approached, it sure looked to me like the employees who were there were getting ready to perform boat maintenance, not go out for a dive. I asked about it, and I was told that, no, they were not diving that afternoon. They told me to check with the operator next door. When I did, I found other fully mystified divers who were supposed to be on my dive trip. The second operator knew something though, because they accepted our prepayment to the first operator.

So, miffed about all that, for the next dive, I booked with the second company. When I got there, I discovered that the trip for which I was booked had not filled; in fact, I was the only one scheduled to be on it. So I was referred back to the first company, which had scheduled its dive to leave a half hour earlier, so the boat was about to pull out. I scrambled and got me gear on board as it was about to pull out.

So neither dive went to the site for which I had signed up, neither was with the operator with whom I had signed up, and neither left at the time for which my dive was scheduled. On neither occasion did I receive any kind of communication telling me about changes.

Assuming this was where you normally dive, you need to try the better dive Ops up in Palm Beach County. This crap doesn’t happen with the boats most of us use up there. With the closure of PDC, the operators left in Pompano do not fill one with confidence.

 

[Johnoly]

..This is my house,

I didn't know you had water-front property !!

Sure it's frozen snow, but technically it's still water.

 

[boulderjohn]

Assuming this was where you normally dive, you need to try the better dive Ops up in Palm Beach County. This crap doesn’t happen with the boats most of us use up there. With the closure of PDC, the operators left in Pompano do not fill one with confidence.

Unfortunately, my wife and I have one car between us, so that travel is problematic.