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By: Holly Surratt
On Saturday at 8:00 am, two advanced students and I began our Peak Performance Buoyancy, Underwater Navigation, and Search & Recovery Adventure Dives at Tiger Tail Lake. Meanwhile Instructor Rick began preparing three Open Water students in the shops pool for their first Open Water training dives later that afternoon. Search and Recovery proved to be a bit challenging with the low visibility at the bottom of the lake, however, my students completed this task easily and with confidence.
The next morning we headed to the boat, the water was a welcoming temperature and completely flat. Our first adventure dive, the Deep Dive, was completed at the Belcher Barge while playing with an egg and drinking some soda under water. Afterwards we anchored at the Neptune Reef where we headed south and came across two eels and a Flamingo Tongue. We ended the morning boat trip with smiling faces and three newly certified Advanced Open Water Divers.
I caught the afternoon boat at 1pm meeting 6 Discover Scuba Divers from Massachusetts who were eager to jump in the water after their pool sessions that morning. The first dive was the Neptune Memorial; all six students descended easily and were greeted by a GIANT parrot fish.The next dive was The Belzona Barge, descending down the rope the students and I came across a baby green sea turtle. Other groups reported a stingray, some lobsters, and a moray eel feeding on a lion fish. Nevertheless, everyone exited the water discussing what they had seen with gaping mouths and loud voices.
°See you next week!°
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