Ginnie Springs
Dec 5, 2009. A team of Open Water Divers, their instructor, Divemaster Candidate and myself, with video camera made a trip to Ginnie Springs to continue with open water training. It was a perfect day for diving. Cold outside and water temps at 72 degrees. It was warmer in the water than out. There was no one at Ginnie, except a small number of divers. Perhaps 12 divers in all and we had 7 of the 12. I figured either it was too cold for people to go diving or the Gators game that started at 4pm was the reason. Which ever, we got to dive AND listen to the game on the ride home. Great students! Here is a small clip from that day. [xr_video id=”2acc4e18627a4da29e137a89fb964469″ size=”sm”] Larry Davis … Read entire article »
Filed under: Open Water, Training, Video, Videography
Rainbow River Florida Drift Dive
Here is the video made of a drift dive down Rainbow River. We entered at KP hole, was shuttled upstream to drift for about 1 hour. Pretty kewl! [xr_video id=”40f27bd07cba41e8ad9c4516188e715a” size=”sm”] … Read entire article »
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Crystal River, Florida Manatees
We stopped to glide outselves into the water to interact with these beautiful creatures. You can see from the video how they interact with us. [xr_video id=”c82ab39ed42f48d7abd0540998b0ebd7″ size=”sm”] … Read entire article »
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Buford Springs, Florida
This dive was a side trip for the grown ups in our group. We were actually in the area to swim with the Manatees and a drift dive down Rainbow river. This was/is one of the most specatular cavern dives I’ve performed. Here is a small video of that trip. [xr_video id=”1b7685f30ce3418b8d55e5001b209906″ size=”sm”] … Read entire article »
Filed under: Adv. Open Water, Cavern, Travel, Trip Report, Video, Videography
Cay Sal Banks, Bahamas
It is August, 2009. One World Ocean is headed for Cay Sal Banks, Bahamas for a third time. My goal this trip is to film the sharks. In 2006 the last time I visited the Cay Sal Banks one of the dive sites known as Big Hole was filled with sharks. Big Hole is the name of the Big Blue Hole that sits on the West Side of the banks. It is at this blue hole sharks are predominant. In 06′ the sharks were predominant. This year they were not. A shark was spotted at Lady’s Secret. Lady’s Secret is located on the eastern side of the banks. This shark was tagged, which may be seen on the video. Since the trip did not contain the abundance of sharks I was hoping to find, I decided to begin filming the guests and the sites we dove. Here is the … Read entire article »
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St Croix February 2009
The video you are about to see is of the trip I made to St. Croix February, 2009. [xr_video id=”bc7607c633364139ad9d64d22bbb8653″ size=”sm”] Larry Davis … Read entire article »
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Spike, the new Artificial Reef
It was around October 2008 when I heard about The Spike. There was a calling to see if the owners would be willing to donate her and volunteers to clean her. Between October 2008 and March 2009, very little was heard on the subject of “Spike.” Around mid March 2009, I was brought to see Spike. She was beautiful. Spike is a retired USCG Tender that served Mayport Florida from her commission in 1968 to her decommissioning 1988. The US Coast Guard turned Spike over to Jacksonville’s Safe Harbor Boys Home where she was used as a dormatory and for maritime training. Here I began taking photographs of her before anything changed. To document what would never be again, before it it lost. I also began to video the rooms and compartments, hatches, and passageways. Around April/May 2009 time frame things began to pick … Read entire article »
Filed under: Artificial Reefs, Reefs, Video, Videography, Wrecks