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Posted on: June 16, 2015HEALTH ADVISORY - High Bacteria Count at Morrison Springs HEALTH ADVISORY - High Bacteria Count at Morrison Springs Walton County – The Health Advisory is issued June 16, 2015, for Morrison Springs. The Advisory is issued based on the criteria for fecal indicator...

Mike S once again motivated the SeaYoda to push back all the time consuming cares of the world and just go dive! Mike was down for a visit and I was off on Monday so he called and got us a ride with ScubaTech. I was a little worried about my gear - it had been stored in a shed since we moved...

I convinced Larry's (Gulfgulper) son to be my "schlep-it" for the jetty death walk since I have not done it in a about a year and a half. I wore my BC and loaded the sand-yacht with a 19 pony, two AL80's and all that goes with them. No camera and strobe to add extra weight. The poor young fella...

It has been about a year and a half since my last dive - far too long. Life gets busy sometimes and the fun stuff gets put on the back burner. Time to change that! If I can find my dive gear (sold the house and moved since my last dive), and it all works, I will be able to call myself a diver...

Some non-diving friends were in town so we went for a snorkel day at the jetties. We were to meet at 10 am (a couple hours before high tide). As I went over the Mid Bay Bridge, I saw some strange dark patches floating in the water to the west. I called the coast guard and reported what I saw and...

Gulf-Gulper and I are on a vacation with our wives and of course since we are near water we have to dive! We rented tanks from a very nice shop called Deep Six in Vero. They had two monster sized AL 100's so of course we opted for those. I banged my fingers twice with those heavy beasts and they...

I went to pick up my regs from service today and got some updated information. Oil is as close as 4 miles and it has hit some of the reefs like White Hill. No news on what effect the oil is having. A guy in the shop said he has a friend in the fire department that reported tar balls on Okaloosa...

Gulf-Gulper and I will be in Vero Beach on Monday and Tuesday. We'll be staying in Ft. Lauderdale Wednesday and Thursday. Anyone have favorite beach dives for those places that you want to share, anyone interested in some morning or late afternoon diving on those dates, and are we missing any...

Pufferfish, GlenFWB, Gulf-Gulper, and I went for a ride on the SeaCobra Monday. The weather was iffy - like always - but the seas were 1 to 2 feet so Nancy took us out to dodge the storms and find a dive site. I'll have to leave the statistics of my dive for others to fill in. I was borrowing...

MikeS and I had decided to give the jetties a try on Tuesday, even though the viz had been less than spectacular on my last two dives. I picked Mike up at the condo and we noted a lack of boat traffic along shore as well as the fact that he heard that ScubaTech had canceled their boat trip that...

I decided to give the jetties another look today. High tide was around 9am so I got to the parking area about 8:30 to lug the gear to the water. Parking was no problem - May is not a busy tourist month around here. I met some people on the way in that were fairly new divers and wanted to know...

Last week I went to check out the water conditions for a dive on Tuesday. I went to the west side of the Destin bridge and the water was a little brown. I decided to drive over and see what things looked like at the dive site anyway. I was greeted by pockets of greenish-blue and slightly brown...

I'm so tired of rain and cold keeping me away from diving that I pulled out the stops and put the baby shampoo bottle (used for defog) back in the Jeep. Maybe this will break the cycle? :D

A couple of friends and I have been planning dives to capture the size of a large cavern here in Florida in picture form. After a couple test runs and some learning, we got back to the cavern and took these shots - the best we've gotten so far ... We will be doing some more work and...

Quick set of pics - more to come with explanation to follow:

Last week the river level predictions were below 6' and the "official site" reported clear water on the 1st so I made plans to go and do some more picture experiments Monday or Tuesday. The rains set in on Sunday and Monday morning and the river prediction was having it go above 6' by Tuesday...

I had been watching the weather reports and checking the tide charts since late last week. I decided Monday to commit to a dive Tuesday morning. I called GFWB to see if he could jump in the water on short notice and he said yes. High tide was supposed to be at slightly after 7 am but sunrise was...

Thoughts? ........

The now standard "wait and see how the weather is" turned out well for a couple dives this morning. There were storms out in the Gulf but none on shore. The sky was overcast as I left the house but was breaking by the time I wheeled the sand-yacht down to the water. Crowds were very thin at...

Plans were made to dive with Comp.Air.Junkie on Monday and the weather cooperated for a change! It was a double high tide day so the fear of bad viz was on my mind. As we got to the water it looked a strange green/brown. When we got in it was hot but there was a change in color where the sand...