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Hello fellow divers !!! -
We are a couple who just last year decided to take the plunge and get certified to dive.
We checked out a local dive shop (Dive Quarters) and from the moment we walked in the door the staff was just super friendly. We got prices on everything and even thought about it for a day .... and went back and signed up.
We took the one weekend class and knocked out our classroom and pool portion, and the following weekend headed up to Lake Rawlings Scuba Park for our open water dives.
Low and behold I had something up my sleeve the entire time, and this was all part of a larger plan .... (video to follow)
We booked a cruise with a few friends from Norfolk to the Bahamas, did some research on a couple places to dive while in the bahamas and decided to to with Stuarts Cove in Nassau, and of course wanted to do it with the sharks!!
Im super lucky, found a girl who is right there with me on my crazy ideas, (Im also a road race fanatic, and strapped her into my car for a couple of sessions)
I got in contact with a private video guy at Stuarts Cove a month ahead of time, and planned out this special day for us ..... things really turned out amazing. Here is the video
[video=youtube;YBqxx1dMfhw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBqxx1dMfhw[/video]
All of the video was shot on our first dive that day, the second dive was during the shark feeding .... AMAZING!!! These guys did a hell of a job.
We then took off for Freeport and went diving with UNEXSO ... again, another amazing experiance!! Went down about 100ft to a wreck on the first dive, about 40ft to a sunk tug boat on the second dive. Heres the video from my gopro from the bahamas (warning not near as nice of a video as the first one)
[video=youtube;6BFp-CS0kwg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BFp-CS0kwg[/video]
Now that its started to get a little nicer out we are trying to convince friends to get certified so we have a few friends who share the same interest .... I actually have a friend who is deaf who jumped all over it.
I took him to Dive Quarters and talked with them if they had ever had any experiance teaching a deaf person (He was turned down by another local dive shop because he was deaf) .... I told them I would have no issues taking the course again and translating for him, so all of last weekend I went through the course again with him ... and he passed with flying colors!! .... he has his open water dives at Lake Rawlings on the 11th of May.
We would love to meet up with some fellow divers in the area and do the cabin thing at the Lake, or a trip out to a wreck (once it warms up a little more)
Look forward to socializing and diving with some of yall in the future!!
- Mike & Marybeth
We are a couple who just last year decided to take the plunge and get certified to dive.
We checked out a local dive shop (Dive Quarters) and from the moment we walked in the door the staff was just super friendly. We got prices on everything and even thought about it for a day .... and went back and signed up.
We took the one weekend class and knocked out our classroom and pool portion, and the following weekend headed up to Lake Rawlings Scuba Park for our open water dives.
Low and behold I had something up my sleeve the entire time, and this was all part of a larger plan .... (video to follow)
We booked a cruise with a few friends from Norfolk to the Bahamas, did some research on a couple places to dive while in the bahamas and decided to to with Stuarts Cove in Nassau, and of course wanted to do it with the sharks!!
Im super lucky, found a girl who is right there with me on my crazy ideas, (Im also a road race fanatic, and strapped her into my car for a couple of sessions)
I got in contact with a private video guy at Stuarts Cove a month ahead of time, and planned out this special day for us ..... things really turned out amazing. Here is the video
[video=youtube;YBqxx1dMfhw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBqxx1dMfhw[/video]
All of the video was shot on our first dive that day, the second dive was during the shark feeding .... AMAZING!!! These guys did a hell of a job.
We then took off for Freeport and went diving with UNEXSO ... again, another amazing experiance!! Went down about 100ft to a wreck on the first dive, about 40ft to a sunk tug boat on the second dive. Heres the video from my gopro from the bahamas (warning not near as nice of a video as the first one)
[video=youtube;6BFp-CS0kwg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BFp-CS0kwg[/video]
Now that its started to get a little nicer out we are trying to convince friends to get certified so we have a few friends who share the same interest .... I actually have a friend who is deaf who jumped all over it.
I took him to Dive Quarters and talked with them if they had ever had any experiance teaching a deaf person (He was turned down by another local dive shop because he was deaf) .... I told them I would have no issues taking the course again and translating for him, so all of last weekend I went through the course again with him ... and he passed with flying colors!! .... he has his open water dives at Lake Rawlings on the 11th of May.
We would love to meet up with some fellow divers in the area and do the cabin thing at the Lake, or a trip out to a wreck (once it warms up a little more)
Look forward to socializing and diving with some of yall in the future!!
- Mike & Marybeth
