Some dive destinations feel like places you visit. Others start to feel a little more like home. For Extreme Sports Scuba, Mermet Springs in southern Illinois has definitely fallen into the second category. Over Labor Day weekend, divers began trickling into the Metropolis area on Friday for three days of diving September 5–7. By the
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There are probably a lot of ways to celebrate your 70th birthday. Deb chose scuba diving in Cozumel. This should surprise absolutely no one. Deb’s birthday falls around Memorial Day, which usually means we’re spending the holiday weekend diving at the lake. But 70 is a pretty significant birthday, and this year Deb decided she’d
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it’s means more than you’d think When traveling to a dive destination, rather if you’re in a large dive group or by yourself, tipping may be important. This guide will help you understand why we should tip as divers, when to tip, how much to tip, who to tip, and when not to tip. Share
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fear of being lost No matter how long you’ve been SCUBA diving, we all have that fear of losing our dive buddy at the worst time. Whether this has or hasn’t happened to your group, it’s bound to happen. The best way to prevent this from happening is to identify yourself. Let’s look at a
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When diving in Cozumel it’s not always about eagle rays, turtles, moray eels, sharks, or even splendid toadfish. Sometimes it’s the littlest creatures. Those that we see and sometimes even photograph. Sometimes we don’t. Some of the smallest creatures can be amazing. Sometimes animals are overlooked not due to their size but due to being
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Or as we call in the SCUBA diving world, drift diving. If you have ever been to diving in Cozumel you’ve probably been drift diving. A very simple description would be, you jump into the ocean and the boat follows you and then picks you up when you are done. Sometimes you just slowly move
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Six o’clock already?!?! Just in the middle of a dream. We were diving Santa Rosa. But we got in on Cedral Reef. There’s my tribute to the Bangles. I hope they don’t hold it against me. We had a pretty manic Monday here in Cozumel. Manic for a dive trip to Cozumel that is. We
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I wear my mask at night, too. In staying with our recent musical blog posts themes. I love night diving. Especially here in Cozumel. Whether it diving from the shore at Hotel Cozumel & Resort, from the dock at Cozumel Marine World, or from the boat at Paradise reef. I really enjoy night diving. You
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First dive boat at the pier, told us 8 an’ they’re already here No phone, no shoes, no work, Ain’t got no dive regrets But two hours of diving fun Buys eight hours of no-fly time I’m a man of depth and night dives
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My bags aren’t packed, not ready to go. I’m standing here beside the dock I hate to wave to you and say goodbye But the dawn is here, it’s time to go The dive boats here, there loading the gear
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