The vintage equipment divers that gathered for this vintage ralley had a great time. We dived a variety of venues, something for everyone. The visit to Weekie Watchie was a lot of fun and our dive out of Destin, a new venue for this event, went well. I made 15 or more scuba dives including several beach/kayak dives at Navarre beach, Pensecola Beach, Destin Jettie twice. Also dove two wrecks out of Pensecola and viewed the soon to be worlds greatest wreck dive, the Oriskany. On my last day I passed back through Destin for another kayak dive on the jetties I was fortunate to dive with a group of bottle nose dolphins that surfaced around my kayak and seemed to accompany me off and on for nearly an hour at their leisure.
The Oriskany is HUGE!!!, this is going to be a premier dive site assuming dive boats run to it, something I am not convinced yet of. I was told by one shop that the reason they no longer carrry divers to offshore locations was the poor level of training of divers today, what a shame.
Any way, the SDIII vintge dive ralley was a complete success, thanks to all who made it possible. N
The Oriskany is HUGE!!!, this is going to be a premier dive site assuming dive boats run to it, something I am not convinced yet of. I was told by one shop that the reason they no longer carrry divers to offshore locations was the poor level of training of divers today, what a shame.
Any way, the SDIII vintge dive ralley was a complete success, thanks to all who made it possible. N