nolatom
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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.
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.