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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Calculating No Decompression Limit, NDL
We will start with the DSAT Air Tables. simply known as the Recreational Dive Planner, RDP. Using your DSAT Air Table, position the card so it looks like what you see above. Dive tables, what are they? Why do they exist? Why do I need to understand how to use a dive table? If I have and use a computer, do I still need to know how to use a dive table? Dive tables may be found in many forms. They may be online, on a hard plastic, water proof card, they may be flexible and/or foldable but what they all contain is a method to calculate our bottom times, surface interval times based on our planned depth, time at depth and our time between dives. Is it important to know how to work your dive tables? One question asked “If I’m wearing … Read entire article »
Filed under: Diver, Divetalking, Education, Open Water, RDP, Recreational Dive Planner, Reference, Training