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It's 3 hours from New Orleans to Pensacola, which is the closest good diving (except for LA rig dives which take almost as long to get to and aren't that regularly scheduled).
Go to bed early, get up at 2:30, on the road by 3am, breakfast in P'Cola by 6:15, at dive shop to rent tanks by 7, at boat before 7:30, 2 nice dives, then drive back, getting there about 4:30.
When you do one drive at night, the other by day, it doesn't seem quite so tedious.
This isn't a regular routine, but when I need to get wet, it's the closest decent place.
I drive 4 hours to Lake Rawlings and 3 Hours to Bainbridge. When Im in Florida on vacation 3 or 4 hours depending on where I am going. If Im in South Florida and the dives are washed out due to weather I will try to go North to the Springs.
2 hrs is fairly average travelling from north NJ down the shore for a charter dive. It's getting up at 4am that kills me, not to mention having to behave myself the night before.
Ya'll are lucky. I'm only three hours from the coast, but because of the altitude where I live I do not make one day trips anymore.
I'm only at 5000 feet, and I thought that it wasn't high enough to make a difference. I was wrong. First couple times I did it I did NOT feel so hot once I got home.
I had to repeat the trip before I realized why...Doh.
And the moral of the story is ... beware of scuba divers wearing only one shoe.
-NWGratefulDiver
Instead of spending all this time trying to solve a non existing problem, why not work at being smarter divers, don't do stupid stuff at the lakes and the boats will have a much harder time hitting you. (AZTEK DIVER)
Wow, I am spoilt. Closet dive site is about 20 minutes drive, the farthest mainland site is about 40 and a whole bunch of sites in between, like about 9 different dive sites.
If we hop over to some of the islands in my area then it is a ferry ride so the travel time will vary as there is different place we can go.
Buddy diving is only as good & safe as your buddy is. But before you point the finger at your buddy, take a look at yourself first and ask the question, "am I a good buddy"?
If I get up at 5 am, I can be up in Tobermory for the 9 am boat out to the wrecks....so 3 hrs isn't too far! Then a shore dive or two after lunch, and be back at home by 7-8 pm. Works for me.
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