The sound of slight commotion. The smell of coffee. A beam of light sneaks through the curtain from the upper hatch. It’s time for breakfast as the bell rings on deck. So begins the day, with as we scarf down breakfast and immediately scurry topside to set up our tank for the day. It’s time …
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Track your next road trip to the Homestead Crater in Midway, Utah from Colorado and Wyoming with the Homestead Crater Road & Weather Tracker. Traffic Cameras & Road Conditions I-25 North to Wyoming CoTrip I-80 Laramie, Wyoming West East Elk Mountain, Wyoming West East Sinclair, Wyoming West East Rock Springs, Wyoming West East Evanston, Wyoming …
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Vacation awaits on your scuba liveaboard adventure. If you are diving the Caribbean sea, you are about to embark on a world-class adventure for scuba diving! Eat, sleep, dive and enjoy the most incredible sunsets you will see! Here are a few things you might want to bring on your trip: Diving BCD Air Delivery …
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Looking to get scuba certified at Horsetooth Reservoir this summer? Or, are you taking some continuing education classes like Night & Limited Visibility, Stress & Rescue, Search and Recovery or Deep Diving? This video is for you! Getting to Sunrise Beach There are several places to dive in Horsetooth, but only two dive sites are …
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The March Horsetooth Dive adventure had the scuba divers encountering ice, fog in the mountains, wind, sun, an enthusiastic dive dog, friends, the park ranger, a tippy dive flag, crawdads / crayfish and more. Conditions 41 degrees topside 38 degrees water The water is warming up! So Nice, We Dove it Twice The local reservoir …
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Wow, That’s a Big Shell! The plan for this particular night dive was to find an Octopus, not to spot a Florida Horse Conch. On the way up-current, I came across this magnificent moving shell. Most shells in this area are occupied by conch crabs, so to see this “sea snail” crawling along the bottom …
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I recently attended a fundraiser for Fins Attached, where I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet Dr. Sylvia Earle. I learned more about sharks, finning, conservation efforts, the decline of shark populations and more. Some of this I had known from educational programs, lectures, dive boat gossip and sometimes Netflix and Youtube, but there was …
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It’s 78 degrees, I plunge into the 74 degree water on Molasses Reef off the coast of Key Largo, Florida. As the chilly water makes it way into my 5mm wetsuit and the first shiver hits, I find it hard to believe that the oceans are heating up. The Ocean Needs Our Help A few …
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Seaworld has been the topic of conversation for many years. It was once an attraction so phenomenal, you could interact with live animals the size of the school bus that brought you to the show. You were able to see turtles and fish, Orcas and dolphins, Beluga whales and penguins, all in one day. Later …
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Five o’clock in the morning, the alarm goes off. On any other day, the groaning and moaning would commence, but not on a weekend when the boat is packed up and ready for launch into the glass-smooth water, before the rest of the world comes to life. Fog rises from the surface as I pass …
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