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Originally Posted by stangd1909
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These dives are taking place in the vicinity of Jupiter, Florida, which is north of the town of Palm Beach. Palm Beach County from Boca Raton to the Martin county line has some of the finest diving in the United States and, on a good day it is absolutely world class.
Palm Beach County's diving conditions are frequently trying and, substantial. The swift current, widely variable visibility, and big animals mixed with deep water make it both difficult and worthwhile. Those same demanding parameters have also work hardened and forged an inordinate number of extremely competent and renowned divers, including Norine Rouse, Jim Abernethy, Gary Adkison, Douglas David Seifert and, Connie Gasque to name just a few of the alumni.
While it would difficult to pin down the exact starting dates of techniques like drift diving and, floats to track divers, the use of low volume masks and, skin diving fins with scuba, the popularization of dive computers, recreational nitrox, independent diving, dead neutral buoyancy, and gear minimization/simplification, I can say with little doubt, all of these things, showed up in Palm Beach early. If it worked, it stuck. If it was a marketing lie or useless idea brought in from the outside it was quickly junked. This evolution continues today and, is under constant revision and, refinement.
May is my favorite month to dive Palm Beach County. Right now the loggerheads are nesting, the spring fish migrations are on, and the big sharks are showing up.
Now is the time year for big animals and blue water,
Jeff Trotta