Geocaching/scuba

[fabasard]

For those that know what it is, do you know of any SCUBA geocaches? Would love to hear about them. I expect to place one either later this year or more likely early next year. For those that don't know what it is "it is people placing things on the planet and logging its coordinates and telling other people the coords and see if they can find it" (see also GEOCACHING.COM) I plan to place a cache underwater and deep enough so that SCUBA is required (or a hell of a free dive).

 

[Fouremco]

Do a search on "underwater" in geocaching.com and you'll come up with quite a few. There's also an interesting site I came across last week on using a GSP from underwater.

 

[ClayJar]

Actually, as a scubacacher myself (oh, if only I lived nearer the water), I have a scubacache list that I maintain (I'm actually about to run today's update).

If you decide to do The Deep Dam Cache near Bristol, TN, *do* let me know ahead of time so I can drive up there. I've already done that one, but there's a second one cudlecub's placed nearby that I haven't done. (Actually, if you do *any* of them within driving distance of you, let me know ahead of time if you'll accept a Baton Rouge scubacaching buddy... you're only, what, 10 hours from me?)

Note: The scubacache list is now up to date (as of 2006-11-09).

 

[scubadobadoo]

One of my favorite caches to date was underwater at Catalina Island in the Casino Point dive park in 30fsw. Loveley!!

 

[Soggy]

For those that know what it is, do you know of any SCUBA geocaches? Would love to hear about them. I expect to place one either later this year or more likely early next year. For those that don't know what it is "it is people placing things on the planet and logging its coordinates and telling other people the coords and see if they can find it" (see also GEOCACHING.COM) I plan to place a cache underwater and deep enough so that SCUBA is required (or a hell of a free dive).

There's one in a pond in Barnstable, MA that I see every time I do a training dive there.

 

[ClayJar]

One of my favorite caches to date was underwater at Catalina Island in the Casino Point dive park in 30fsw. Loveley!!

Captain Jacques Yves Cousteau by PezCachers? I've heard good things about that one.

There's one in a pond in Barnstable, MA that I see every time I do a training dive there.

That would be Scuba School II, most likely.

 

[Soggy]

That would be Scuba School II, most likely.

That would be it. Though, I don't understand what you 'get' when you send the numbers in (which are individual numbers in a sleeve that have slipped over time and now aren't particularly readable).

 

[ClayJar]

Actually, although it may sound a bit... um... odd. You get one of these:

Oh, and your find count goes up by one, too.

(Well, it's a good excuse for having fun, at least.)

Note: When I say you get one of those smileys, I mean it in the literal sense, as that is the icon attached to all "found the cache" log entries on the site.

 

[Soggy]

Actually, although it may sound a bit... um... odd. You get one of these:

Oh, and your find count goes up by one, too.

(Well, it's a good excuse for having fun, at least.)

Note: When I say you get one of those smileys, I mean it in the literal sense, as that is the icon attached to all "found the cache" log entries on the site.

Ah, so the experience is its own prize? Makes sense. I was just confused by it being called "SCUBA School II". I thought that meant there was something attached to it other than "I found it."

That's totally cool that it's just about the going and finding part.

 

[ClayJar]

The guy who hid it (and its nearby dry land brother, Scuba School I) is an instructor who does training at the pond, as I understand it. I'm not sure if he's used the cache itself when drilling underwater navigation into people, but come to think of it, I ought to get a few caches hidden around here, just in case I end up going all instructory myself.