You are an hour closer to Dutch Springs than you are to Lake Rawlings....with better facilities once you get there and you don't have to deal with Erol. 
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You are an hour closer to Dutch Springs than you are to Lake Rawlings....with better facilities once you get there and you don't have to deal with Erol.
LMAO... MOst people complain about Kevin...Errol is pretty invisible.
The best question is going to be, where are we going to take students for checkout dives? Fantasy??
It would be nice if there was a reliable boat in the Virginia beach area to run ocean dives....you know one that will actually RUN the boat when the winds pick up past 10kts....and preferably one that doesn't want $175 per trip with no comps available for instructors.
Yeah, right; Kevin certainly helps the party...
So you mean Fantasy the island resort, or Fantasy as in "there is no place to go?"
I like to take students to Bonaire....easy, non-threatening, not horribly expensive, easy to combine shore and boat.
Yeah, a "local" boat would be nice.
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I do NOT like to take OW students to Millbrook for cert dives....too easy to ruin their interest in diving.
I was referring to Fantasy Lake in Raliegh. Its better than Millbrook, but not by much. Usually it is crazy clear in a quarry during the winter.....still pretty nasty at fantasy in my experience. I wish I had the money to buy Rawlings, if nothing else just to make it better. I think some laser lights and a stripper pole would be interesting during the summer..lol
Randy g
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Hell I am so disgusted with the lack of local boats/diving ops that we are planning on purchasing "A hole in the water to throw money into" either next year or the season after just so I can dive when and where I want.
I just picked up a 11 F250 diesel to haul it with a short time ago and next is either a 30' travel trailer or a 30' boat. Both are about the same price range used.
I just picked up a 11 F250 diesel to haul it with a short time ago and next is either a 30' travel trailer or a 30' boat. Both are about the same price range used.
Randy g
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I hear ya and have felt the same as you, for several years now. There are some really great wrecks here, the problem is no one dives them anymore. Tons of fish and bugs for the taking if you can get out. I have made it out off VB maybe 2-4 times a season the last few years. I dive NC and FL 10x as much simply because there are dive ops that actually run if the sea state is more than 2' and wind more than 10.
I will probably get the boat since we can use it more often locally to dive off VB, CB and fossil hunting rivers north of here rather than a traveling dive trailer that I can haul to NF and dive/live cheap for a week or two, a couple times a year.
I need to play AND win the lotto.
I will probably get the boat since we can use it more often locally to dive off VB, CB and fossil hunting rivers north of here rather than a traveling dive trailer that I can haul to NF and dive/live cheap for a week or two, a couple times a year.
I need to play AND win the lotto.
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novasquid
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anyone want to meet up over the martin luther king holiday weekend before lake rawlings is gone for good? sat, sun or monday, or any combo of those days?
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