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Hey Aucilla,
Great to have you in the group and the ADP!!
Hope you guys have a wonderful time in the Keys!!!
Jeff
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Hey Aucilla,
Great to have you in the group and the ADP!!
Hope you guys have a wonderful time in the Keys!!!
Jeff
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Welcome to ScubaBoard! I am one of the Tallahasseans 
I've been diving for about a year and a half. Got certified at Blue Water out on the Parkway just past Target. I now do most of my shopping and such down in Crawfordville. Anyways, back from that tangent, I hope your diving was great! I'll be getting wet for the first time this year next week...yippee.....
I've been diving for about a year and a half. Got certified at Blue Water out on the Parkway just past Target. I now do most of my shopping and such down in Crawfordville. Anyways, back from that tangent, I hope your diving was great! I'll be getting wet for the first time this year next week...yippee.....connellc
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Welcome to the board Aucilla!
Good luck on your C dives and at FSU!!!
If you're ever down here in FLL again, check out our club, Florida Conch Divers and hook up with us for some diving!!
Semper Safe,
Rick
Good luck on your C dives and at FSU!!!
If you're ever down here in FLL again, check out our club, Florida Conch Divers and hook up with us for some diving!!
Semper Safe,
Rick
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Aucilla
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Thanks for all the warm welcomes! I am so excited about this new experience. 
The FSU Academic Diving Program has been great, and it is nice to link up here with some folks who are connected with it. And then a fellow FSU-related follk, and then on top of that an invite from Ft. Lauderdale, where I grew up through graduating from high school in 1969.
I have now done everthing but the paperwork for OW and AOW YMCA certification.
The Keys dives were "awesome," and I have decided that "kids today" over-use that word and should save it for SCUBA! We dove the Christ of the Abyss and the North Dry Rock Reef on Wednesday. Thursday, we started with the USS Spiegel Grove, followed by the North Horseshoe Reef; and then after a break onshore to buy dive lights, we did a night dive to he USS City of Washington. Wouldn't you say that's enough? Naaahhhh... We got up at 4:30 AM on Friday and dove the USS Duane followed by the French Reef. The best was saved for last. Can you spell E-X-T-A-S-C-Y? We came really far, really fast, as all the class room, pool and even springs check out knowlege became concrete. By the time we did the Duane, I had neutral bouyancy down so well, and we were blessed with such great visability and low currents, that I just slowly floated through the blue for 100'.
Only you good folks understand that.
Peace.
Bill
The FSU Academic Diving Program has been great, and it is nice to link up here with some folks who are connected with it. And then a fellow FSU-related follk, and then on top of that an invite from Ft. Lauderdale, where I grew up through graduating from high school in 1969. I have now done everthing but the paperwork for OW and AOW YMCA certification.
The Keys dives were "awesome," and I have decided that "kids today" over-use that word and should save it for SCUBA! We dove the Christ of the Abyss and the North Dry Rock Reef on Wednesday. Thursday, we started with the USS Spiegel Grove, followed by the North Horseshoe Reef; and then after a break onshore to buy dive lights, we did a night dive to he USS City of Washington. Wouldn't you say that's enough? Naaahhhh... We got up at 4:30 AM on Friday and dove the USS Duane followed by the French Reef. The best was saved for last. Can you spell E-X-T-A-S-C-Y? We came really far, really fast, as all the class room, pool and even springs check out knowlege became concrete. By the time we did the Duane, I had neutral bouyancy down so well, and we were blessed with such great visability and low currents, that I just slowly floated through the blue for 100'.
Only you good folks understand that.
Peace.
Bill
You'll have some great spearfishing opportunities up in North Florida. Man, I just made the drive to launch from Steinhatchee last weekend for a three day trip, and although most of our diving was out in the Middle Grounds, we hit some local spots and it was great. You definitely want to get good at diving before shooting fish. On Saturday I had a large amberjack entangle me repeatedly, and if you don't have good skills it can hurt or kill you. Serves me right for not stoning him.
Hi Aucilla and welcome to Scubaboard. We do a lot of beach diving down here off of Ft. Lauderdale. When in this neck of the woods, be sure to look us up, we have a good active group of divers, and the SI is usually just as entertaining!
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Aucilla
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Thanks Scott and Jenny! I was raised in Lauderdale, and I hope to take you up on your invitation sometime Jenny. I do have a way to go, in more ways than one, before I can do so.
I expect to be certified, YMCA, as advanced open-water diver, by summer. But I don't have any gear to speak of..... So that will have to wait.
But I am thinking of joining the Seminole Scuba Club at FSU. If I do, I can check out gear from the University.
Scott: Maybe one day I can meet you when you come up here to dive again! I would meet you in order to dive with you up here!
All that lies in the future......
Thanks so much for the welcome--this is quite a deal for a relative oldster like me.
I expect to be certified, YMCA, as advanced open-water diver, by summer. But I don't have any gear to speak of..... So that will have to wait.
But I am thinking of joining the Seminole Scuba Club at FSU. If I do, I can check out gear from the University.
Scott: Maybe one day I can meet you when you come up here to dive again! I would meet you in order to dive with you up here!
All that lies in the future......
Thanks so much for the welcome--this is quite a deal for a relative oldster like me.
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