Oh...THAT class... I've gota fix that, it keeps getting rescheduled.MB:
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As usual, it was great to see old friends again!
Marvel & Zendiva, it made Tess' day when you were there to cheer her across the finish line. She was really touched by how wonderful you are. I think you both made a friend for life. Yes, we did pack her in ice for the drive home.
Marvel & Zendiva, it made Tess' day when you were there to cheer her across the finish line. She was really touched by how wonderful you are. I think you both made a friend for life. Yes, we did pack her in ice for the drive home.
BabyDuck
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not in a scuba sense, no.
What a great time I attending the Florida Dive Show this past weekend in WPB! In theory I went to the show to help out NetDoc with the Scubaboard booth- in reality I spent lots of time wandering the aisles of the show checking out all the exhibitors & their wares. Despite this being the first year of the show, there were a lot of interesting vendors at the show- from dive resorts to magazines to equipment manufacturers both large & small. Plus, I had a wonderful time hanging out with a lot of friends & meeting new ones. My dive sistuh Scuba_Jenny, the Hermit Crab, Krista (KBeck), Diane (ZenDiva from Scubaboard & Zendiving.com ), DyvrDan, Padipro, Walter- too many friends to list &, of course, NetDoc who kept me entertained all weekend with his stories & jokes. I cannot even begin to remember all the folks I met, both current Scubaboard members & future ones. Got to spend time with Curt Bowen- former Moderator on SB & the publisher of Advanced Diver Magazine. His friend Jakub, now a new member & the owner of Golum Gear. Both great guys with lots of interesting stories to share & were a lot of fun to hang out with. Unfortunately, I wasnt able to attend any of the conference events & I missed meeting Gary Gentile & other speakers who came by the booth while I was out looking around. One of my favorite moments actually did not take place at the show, however. A friend & fellow diver, Tess Madeya from Ft Myers was running her 10th marathon in WPB. About 4 miles into the race, she felt something pop in her hip & was not able to keep running- it turned out to be a torn muscle. She determined that she was going to finish the race any way & WALKED the rest of the course- a total of 26.2 miles. Walter, Diane & I went down to watch her cross the finish line, which she did in a couple minutes less than 6 hours. Her tears of joy at completing her 10th marathon made me start crying too.
A couple of highlights from my visits to the booths. Mind you, these are MY favorites:
The guys from Atomic Aquatics have come up with a couple of new masks. One of them is really stylish looking- a double lens with a black frame & red accents that my friend Dan wants to get. The one I fell in love with, however, was a VERY low profile single lens mask. They expect to have them on the market by Christmas or the New Years. Chad & Darcy were real sports about modeling them for a picture. (which is still on Pete's camera)
Dive Chronicles Magazine was there handing out magazines that featured an article on Jonah, a turtle who was swallowed by a fish that was caught & cut open in time to save him. The really cool thing was that Jonah was there, complements of Marinelife Center of Juno Beach. Jonah will spend a year visiting different venues to help increase ocean awareness before being released back into his natural habitat.
Im not a real fan of wearing tee-shirts but I was impressed by the designs of Bottom Crawlers. Cool stuff! On the art side, Pascal Lecorq was there & was so gracious about signing postcards for the Hermit Crab & Colins little boy, X-Man. Lots of interesting resorts were there too- Henrik, from Wakatobi Dive Resort , couldnt seem to stay in his booth either- I kept running across him everywhere all weekend handing out brochures. Thats one place near the top of my list of places I want to dive some day.
Of course, my favorite booths were the equipment manufacturers. Diane & I spent some time at OMS talking gear with Jack. Diane, who is in the process of getting certified, tried on a backplate/wing- she looked as if she liked it... I had a great conversation about GUE & the DIR philosophy with the guys at the Halcyon booth.
The guys in yellow & black at the Silent Diving booth kept luring me in to talk about rebreathers .tempting but just not practical for someone who primarily does beach diving as I do. Funny, I kept getting drawn to all the booths with rebreathers. Curt had a couple of KISS units at his booth that I looked over too.
Most of all, I really want to thank Lamar Hires from DiveRite for the 30-40 minutes that he spent explaining their new rebreather system to a couple of us. I walked away with a much better understanding of how rebreathers work- the advantages & disadvantages. I really liked the new O2ptimas cartridge O2 scrubber- much more environmentally friendly & easy to handle than existing scrubbers.
When the show finally ended, Pete & I went out to dinner with Chris & Jared from Zeagle. Chris is the inventor of the Rapid Diver system- a really cool compact dive system used primarily by military & first response divers. Perfect for some shallow beach diving though :05:
Truly a fantastic weekend- worth missing some dives for!
A couple of highlights from my visits to the booths. Mind you, these are MY favorites:
The guys from Atomic Aquatics have come up with a couple of new masks. One of them is really stylish looking- a double lens with a black frame & red accents that my friend Dan wants to get. The one I fell in love with, however, was a VERY low profile single lens mask. They expect to have them on the market by Christmas or the New Years. Chad & Darcy were real sports about modeling them for a picture. (which is still on Pete's camera)
Dive Chronicles Magazine was there handing out magazines that featured an article on Jonah, a turtle who was swallowed by a fish that was caught & cut open in time to save him. The really cool thing was that Jonah was there, complements of Marinelife Center of Juno Beach. Jonah will spend a year visiting different venues to help increase ocean awareness before being released back into his natural habitat.
Im not a real fan of wearing tee-shirts but I was impressed by the designs of Bottom Crawlers. Cool stuff! On the art side, Pascal Lecorq was there & was so gracious about signing postcards for the Hermit Crab & Colins little boy, X-Man. Lots of interesting resorts were there too- Henrik, from Wakatobi Dive Resort , couldnt seem to stay in his booth either- I kept running across him everywhere all weekend handing out brochures. Thats one place near the top of my list of places I want to dive some day.
Of course, my favorite booths were the equipment manufacturers. Diane & I spent some time at OMS talking gear with Jack. Diane, who is in the process of getting certified, tried on a backplate/wing- she looked as if she liked it... I had a great conversation about GUE & the DIR philosophy with the guys at the Halcyon booth.
The guys in yellow & black at the Silent Diving booth kept luring me in to talk about rebreathers .tempting but just not practical for someone who primarily does beach diving as I do. Funny, I kept getting drawn to all the booths with rebreathers. Curt had a couple of KISS units at his booth that I looked over too.
Most of all, I really want to thank Lamar Hires from DiveRite for the 30-40 minutes that he spent explaining their new rebreather system to a couple of us. I walked away with a much better understanding of how rebreathers work- the advantages & disadvantages. I really liked the new O2ptimas cartridge O2 scrubber- much more environmentally friendly & easy to handle than existing scrubbers.
When the show finally ended, Pete & I went out to dinner with Chris & Jared from Zeagle. Chris is the inventor of the Rapid Diver system- a really cool compact dive system used primarily by military & first response divers. Perfect for some shallow beach diving though :05:
Truly a fantastic weekend- worth missing some dives for!
Curt Bowen
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Marvel:
Thanks Marvel
Had a good time at the show and It was nice to spend some time with you and ScubaJenny.
May I say, you look very nice in black! Maybe Jakub and I can come over for some dives someday.
Curt Bowen
Curt Bowen:
Why, thank you kind sir! just for that, you & Jakub are welcome anytime! :05:
Marvel:
Cool. I am already trying to figure out when to do it.
Will have to bring one of my shallow depth rebreathers
http://www.golemrebreathers.com/larv.htm
It was great meeting all new people at the show.
Well this was the first Florida Dive Show in West Palm Beach and my first as well so if I forget anyone’s name I apologize ahead of time. I soaked in a great deal this weekend.
First and Foremost I’d like to say what a pleasure it was to meet Pete (NetDoc) and thank him for allowing me to hang out in his Scuba Board Booth…(I did hand out Scubaboard stickers along w/ my zendiving cards) Pete is an absolute pleasure and I hope to have the opportunity to meet up with him again some day for a dive, another event such as this or the opportunity for a chat.
As someone new to the diving world I found this to be very educational, trying on equipment, getting to see different things that I’ve seen everyone chatting about and discussing. Video/camera housings, lights, etc.. I soaked up a great deal of information on trips, the different styles of trips for divers, locations, accommodations, etc. I think we put Frank and Lynn from Sunset Waters/Divers through their paces picking their brains for every bit of information about their resort and diving.
I had the opportunity to meet in person many wonderful people in addition to Pete, such as ScubaJenny, Walter’s Friend Tess whom we ran over (walter’s version of a nice leisurely walk *smile*) to cheer her through the finish line of her marathon…Dan, Curt, Jakub, and many other’s whom Marvel introduced me to and I apologize I’m horrible with names! But I can remember your faces.
I really had a great weekend and found it to be a lot of fun and am looking forward to finally getting certified and getting out there diving with everyone and until the next dive or diving expo!
*smile*
ps. Walter it was my pleasure and I'm glad to hear she'll be ok ....
First and Foremost I’d like to say what a pleasure it was to meet Pete (NetDoc) and thank him for allowing me to hang out in his Scuba Board Booth…(I did hand out Scubaboard stickers along w/ my zendiving cards) Pete is an absolute pleasure and I hope to have the opportunity to meet up with him again some day for a dive, another event such as this or the opportunity for a chat.
As someone new to the diving world I found this to be very educational, trying on equipment, getting to see different things that I’ve seen everyone chatting about and discussing. Video/camera housings, lights, etc.. I soaked up a great deal of information on trips, the different styles of trips for divers, locations, accommodations, etc. I think we put Frank and Lynn from Sunset Waters/Divers through their paces picking their brains for every bit of information about their resort and diving.
I had the opportunity to meet in person many wonderful people in addition to Pete, such as ScubaJenny, Walter’s Friend Tess whom we ran over (walter’s version of a nice leisurely walk *smile*) to cheer her through the finish line of her marathon…Dan, Curt, Jakub, and many other’s whom Marvel introduced me to and I apologize I’m horrible with names! But I can remember your faces.
I really had a great weekend and found it to be a lot of fun and am looking forward to finally getting certified and getting out there diving with everyone and until the next dive or diving expo!
*smile*
ps. Walter it was my pleasure and I'm glad to hear she'll be ok ....
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