Count ODI:Saturday (in the near future) it is! Perhaps Divemistress2 can join us. I will PM you with some dates. How was the mighty Empress!
One word.
SWEET.
When I get a mini-trip report done I'll let ya know. An absolute must-do, buddy. Tyler put together one heck of a good trip.
He's evidently the go-to man for the Empress. Well liked and respected by the Quebec contingent. I wouldn't think of doing it with anybody else.
Diving with Dany on his 500th Empress dive, TV crew coverage, videoing it myself, 60ft of vis...... Being in the water with the true King of the Empress, hovering over the starboard rail and seeing clearly the port rail, was certainly divine intervention of the highest magnitude. It was touching to see Dany pour the remaining champagne over the marker of his fallen friend Pierre Lepage, on the forward deck. Right beside that was another marker for Lise Parent and Xavier Roblain with a "fresh" bouquet of flowers, a reminder to us all of the perils of this wreck, and our chosen sport. I'll never live to see another diving day like that one.
It doesn't get any better than that man. No-where, no how. Sometimes life just smiles large on you.
Steve