Seeking local groups

[cew111]

still searching for jacksonville beach and surrounding area divers to dive and socialize.used to dive virtually every weekend up north,every lake ,river,quary,pond available with several big trips a year.moved to florida and manage only a few dives a year,explain this to me!

 

[Ber Rabbit]

Ummmmm, diving up north is better than diving in Florida?

Welcome to the board! There's a pretty big Florida contingent here, big enough to have their state broken into smaller groups! Check out the Florida Conch Divers here on the board and you'll have a bunch of new buddies in no time!
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[Dive-aholic]

Welcome to the 'Board! Here's a link to the forum Ber mentioned. I can't help you much with Jacksonville. I know there are divers that live there, but most of the ones I know head my way on a regular basis to dive. If you ever feel like taking a road trip, let me know. I'm only about 3.5 hours from you and there's quite a bit of diving around my area.

 

[LIVES4SHARKS]

WELCOME TO :sblogo:
I am just a bit North of you here in Savannah and am always looking for dive buddies! I head to the springs and also down the coast to Jupiter etc. Just PM me and I will happy to get with you for some diving. I haven't had the pleasure of getting offshore there in JAX, weather has not cooperated, but would love to give it another try!

Happy diving!
Carolyn:sharks:

 

[cew111]

thanks to all, i'm not saying diving up north is better,just did more of it.belonged to a club sponsored by a shop that was run out of a couples house.small shop,but everyone became family.had something going on every weekend.even if it wasn't diving.shops here seem more interested in.."hurry up and buy something or leave". i went to the most prominent shop here in jacksonville beach a while back to ask about dive clubs in the area,or if they knew of any place divers hung out and the owner asked if i was interested in purchasing anything and when i said no he walked off.

 

[Ber Rabbit]

I'm just razzing ya I LIKE diving up north, no hurricanes, no alligators, no sharks, no jellyfish no wilting humidity.... ok, sometimes we have wilting humidity
Ber :lilbunny:

 

[Mel-OBT]

Welcome aboard!

Lots of info here....enjoy!

 

[PalatkaBoy]

thanks to all, i'm not saying diving up north is better,just did more of it.belonged to a club sponsored by a shop that was run out of a couples house.small shop,but everyone became family.had something going on every weekend.even if it wasn't diving.shops here seem more interested in.."hurry up and buy something or leave". i went to the most prominent shop here in jacksonville beach a while back to ask about dive clubs in the area,or if they knew of any place divers hung out and the owner asked if i was interested in purchasing anything and when i said no he walked off.

I was just diving offshore Jax last Sunday (June 1st). Jellies were plentiful. A 6' hammerhead circled the boat for a couple of minutes. Vis was alright. Dove a couple of wrecks in the 70' - 75' range. Mostly spearfishers out but there were 3 of us who weren't.

Saw a couple of rays, one of which started playing with us. He had a posse with him. He swam up to me within 2 feet of my face and veered off. I was about 3 - 5' off the bottom. I was so excited I forgot to switch out of macro mode on my camera. So I got a great picture of his eyeball and vent.

A group of us meet once a month to either set up some diving or talk about it at least. Just keep an eye on the Florida Conchs group for info or posts about dives. I missed the last meeting because of an emergency but we had 10 or so turn up for the one before it.

Just post up if you want to dive on a given day/weekend and I'm sure someone will see it and respond.