Who's diving where next weekend (October 15/16)...?
Did the SS Minnow up outta WPB this last Saturday, and spent all daya Sunday w/ S. Florida Diving HQ. Phenominal dives on the Cptn Dan & Tracey - I'm going to love the wrecks down here...
SS Minnow - good parking, plesant crew. In-water DM, unique dive platform, no ladder. A submerged deck you pull youself onto - no effort at all. Minor battery problems delayed heading out, quick repairs done on the spot. Active Roll Call used. A+ operation.
S. Florida Diving - parking arrangement leaves alot to be desired. Basically pull up, find a place to park temp. while you unload your car, then go to the municipal lot which is $1/hour, find out both machines are not taking dollar bills, grab all your change, find out that its a real ***** to feed nickles and dimes. Give up hope, run around a find a free spot across the street, and sprint back to the boat. Then between AM and PM dives, haul your tanks the 300yrds from boat to car to swap out tanks, cuz you don't wanna loose the parking spot.... They run three boats, and it shows. The front office is a bit of a mad house, divers all over the place filling in paperwork, etc.. Imagine thats par for the course w/ potentially 70 divers showing up.
DM's dropped in to tie a mooring ball for the wrecks, reefs were drift, good captns and crews all around. Dave and Brian on the Aqua View definately had alot of 'personality' to add to the ride out....
Ran across plenty of bugs s/o really searching - I'm going to be getting license and gear this week.
Did the SS Minnow up outta WPB this last Saturday, and spent all daya Sunday w/ S. Florida Diving HQ. Phenominal dives on the Cptn Dan & Tracey - I'm going to love the wrecks down here...
SS Minnow - good parking, plesant crew. In-water DM, unique dive platform, no ladder. A submerged deck you pull youself onto - no effort at all. Minor battery problems delayed heading out, quick repairs done on the spot. Active Roll Call used. A+ operation.
S. Florida Diving - parking arrangement leaves alot to be desired. Basically pull up, find a place to park temp. while you unload your car, then go to the municipal lot which is $1/hour, find out both machines are not taking dollar bills, grab all your change, find out that its a real ***** to feed nickles and dimes. Give up hope, run around a find a free spot across the street, and sprint back to the boat. Then between AM and PM dives, haul your tanks the 300yrds from boat to car to swap out tanks, cuz you don't wanna loose the parking spot.... They run three boats, and it shows. The front office is a bit of a mad house, divers all over the place filling in paperwork, etc.. Imagine thats par for the course w/ potentially 70 divers showing up.
DM's dropped in to tie a mooring ball for the wrecks, reefs were drift, good captns and crews all around. Dave and Brian on the Aqua View definately had alot of 'personality' to add to the ride out....
Ran across plenty of bugs s/o really searching - I'm going to be getting license and gear this week.