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Drive South Part III - The Barfening
I have a love/hate relationship with boats. When we first moved to Florida, my dad was a Dockmaster at a marina in Miami. Wow, writing...


Come on Baby, Drive South - Key Largo Diventure Part I
Turns out throwing up in the middle of the ocean isn't as bad as I'd expected. There I was, bobbing around in the surf, miles from shore,...


Making Advances
Come on. You really didn’t think you could get rid of me that easily, did you? So the ScubaNewb, despite a rocky start, managed to master...


Into the Great Wide Open: Part Two
My Confined Water days were officially behind me and I had just two dives left to complete. I was poised to make my entry into a wider...


Into the Great Wide Open - Part One
Well, here we are. I’ve made it as far as Confined 3/Open 1. It had been moderately exasperating. I had almost quit but Will kept me on...


The Importance of Being Equal
So… after my experiecne of having struggled through most of Confined 1, I was sure to do my homework. I practiced in the pool until my...


Confinement
As mentioned in my “Diving 101” post, there are several confined and open water dives a new diver must progress through in order to...


Why am I doing this?
As my lessons have begun, I’ve oft been asked “what got you into diving?” Dating a scuba diver is the obvious answer but there’s more to...


Sometimes life gets in the way
So. I'd met my knight in shining Aqualung. I'd had my first taste of breathing underwater. I was ready to pull the trigger and get my...


Once upon a dive...
So, what would drive someone to want to learn to scuba dive at ... (I can't even type it) 50 (eep!) years of age? Crack a beer and let's...
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