Gonna have to say goodbye to SoCal diving comes early 2015

[Merry]

We'll miss you and your kind comments. Don't be a stranger on the board!

 

[diver 85]

Skins is all you'll need for the GoM come summertime ---& be sure & make it out to the Flower Gardens on the Fling(it's out of Freeport. Tx---about an hour or so SW of Houston)......

 

[fnfalman]

I may not be diving SoCal but I'm still a SoCal diver. It might be a couple of years before I get back to the Left Coast, but I'll keep on diving. I tried the Flower Garden before but the trip was cancelled due to weather. Hopefully between February 2015 and summer, while I'm in Houston, I can make it to the Flower Garden.

Of course, I will wreak havoc on the unsuspecting East Coast divers with my eye searing wetsuit.

In the mean times, I'm gonna squeeze out as many dives as possible between now and end of January 2015.

 

[industrious95]

You ought to come up and visit us in Jersey. But a 3 mm isn't going to cut it. Most divers I know use dry suits, wetsuit guys usually in 7 mm.

 

[dead dog]

I just got the word that I'll be transferred to Houston first of February 2015 and Maryland by summer 2015. Good bye magical kelp forests, hello Gulf Coast and East Coast diving.

Gonna have to visit either Horizon or JMJ for 3mm suits.

Here's a few spots for you to try :

https://www.google.com/search?
rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS602US603&es_sm=93&biw=1440&bih=799&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=0j91VOjQCcmuogSH04FY&ved=0CGMQsAQ&q=Flower%20Gardens%20Freeport.%20Tx

daveread.com - Diving the Flower Gardens National Marine Sanctuary

Dive Charters to Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary

Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Gulf of Mexico, Texas and Louisiana coast | Scuba Diving

daveread.com - Diving the Flower Gardens National Marine Sanctuary

Alert Diver | Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, Texas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xokJo5_FSsA

https://www.google.com/search?q=Flo...sm=93&ie=UTF-8#q=Flower+Gardens++Freeport.+Tx

http://www.chopf.com/FLOWERS.HTM


Good diving and dive safe and free go SOLO as long sa you can.

dead dog

 

[diver 85]

fman---weather is the main consideration for diving the FG------July and August are the 2 best months to give it a try--RE the weather.....I have made 5 outta 5 trips during those 2 months in the past......I'd shoot for one of those if you really want 'to get there'.....

 

[fnfalman]

You ought to come up and visit us in Jersey. But a 3 mm isn't going to cut it. Most divers I know use dry suits, wetsuit guys usually in 7 mm.

I plan on diving up and down the entire East Coast. And no, I don't have a 3mm wetsuit. My wetsuit and I are good down to 48-F. Lower than that, I might have to rent a dry suit.