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Ladies Dive trip has been revived!!!

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Posted in Friends & Family, Scuba Diving

Last year Pro Dive offered all Ladies Dive trips…well I really liked diving with the ladies so its back! We went out on Wednesday evening (August 4th) for a 1 tank dive of the Bob Diver. We went to a 60 ft reef called Hammerhead and did a nice 40 minute drift dive. And boy was it a drift! The current pushed us pretty far which was great cuase we covered a lot of territory. The vis was about 50 ft, and I used my slate to count the numbers of lion fish and lobsters while on this dive: 4 lion fish and 10 large lobsters!

Now my favorite part about the ladies dives is not just diving with the girls or the chocolate chip cookies I make or the girly music we play….no its that the boys onboard dress in drag….and guess what they like it!!! Check out the photos!!!

FYI Next month we are letting the guys join us on our dive…we are calling it Ladies Night, ladies get half off on the charter price and they get to get into the water first! We are going to be doing the 5 Wreck trek Drift….so Guys catch us if you can!!!

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Pirate Day at Pro Dive

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 Posted in Friends & Family, Scuba Diving

On Saturday July 31, 2010 Pro Dive hosted Pirate Day!!! It was so much fun, all the staff really got into character. Especially Matt, he walked around all day yelling pirate slang. He even brought a clown mask to scare Wedge, Wedge hates clowns! Before the night dive we cooked up some hot dogs and had a raffle. Ocean Bound donated t-shirts and tank wraps to give away, they were super cool (click on the link in this sentence to check out the photos from their website). Plus they made yummy cakes for us! Ocean Bound has some awesome dive wear and tank wraps. We are slowly starting to carry their products. I worked in retail all day with Marissa, and customers that came in kept asking us if this was our actual uniform! Funny, but no. After I closed the shop I was able to go out on the night dive for some fun diving with my cousin Lauren and roommate Sam! Boat crew made me dive in my Pirate costume, so that was a sight…to bad I didn’t get any photos of that! Enjoy the photos![nggallery id=62]

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My friends the Spotted Dolphins

Thursday, July 15, 2010 Posted in Scuba Diving, Travel

We had an amazing encounter with a family of Atlantic spotted dolphins (Stenella frontalis) while on our trip to Tiger Beach, Bahamas. Even though I am a former dolphin trainer, something about having an encounter with a pod of wild dolphins makes me so happy everytime. This was Matt’s first up-close encounter with dolphins and I was happy to get some great photos of him and his new friends…also Matt used some great freediving techniques that he learned from me, I was proud! No snorkel violation!

Spotted dolphins as juveniles don’t have spots right away, they develop them as they get older and grow. So as you can see in the photos we had a pod with babys and their mommas…super cute. What amazed me was how interested they where in us. They were playing in the sand and swimming in circles around us.

I truely enjoyed swimming along these beautiful creatures!

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Tiger Beach 2010

Thursday, July 15, 2010 Posted in Friends & Family, Scuba Diving, Travel

There’s a beach in the Bahamas that’s unlike any other in the world. It’s located 20 miles off the coast of West End, Grand Bahama, and buried like sunken treasure under crystal clear blue water. Divers from around the world go there in search of sharks….lemon sharks, reef sharks, hammerheads, and most of all Tiger Sharks! One of the most famous sharks in the world lives here at Tiger Beach. Her name is Emma, and she is 14 feet long. She is known as a “supermodel”, this means she likes to come in close to pose for the cameras, Emma could possibly be the most photographed wild animal on this planet. Tiger Sharks are very powerful creatures but if you respect them and their space they will not be the ferocious like we all think thanks to the Jaws Hollywood movies. They are truely beautiful creatures and once you get over that 10 mins of fear within the dive you learn to relax and thats when you get the best encounter and the best shots with your camera. If you’re interested in going to meet Emma please go see my friends at Jim Abernethy’s Scuba Adventures, they will take you to an experience of a life time! This was by far once of my eye opening diving experience!

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