Pumpkin Carvin
Join Lake Rawlings Saturday Oct 25th from 12 noon to 2 pm for our annual Underwater Pumpkin Carving Contest. Prizes will be awarded in two categories, for most unique and best in show. Buddy teams please register between 10am and noon or pre register. Awards presented 2pm at the Dive Shack. These include: 10 Punch Admission T Shirts 10 Punch Air Fill Cards For a complete rule list, comments or questions contact me @ dalelynnsims@hotmail.com...
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Interested in becoming a Divemaster
Sorry this was to long to respond as a comment: Becoming a Divemaster is likely the most challenging and fun thing that you can do in diving. It open doors to the physics and physiological changes that are incurred with diving. The curriculum that the Divermaster course covers will position you to go further if you choose as this is the point that you put all the things together, theory, math, experience, etc. that will help you become an instructor if you so choose. The only part that is missin...
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Lake Rawlings First Annual Dive Buddy Gathering
Well it happened and if your reading this thinking that the weather, this past Saturday 11 August, was going to be lousy at Lake Rawlings, you missed out as it was great. Because of the storms Friday we did not have the great vis that we normally have however as one poster has already noted it was not bad and they got a great photo of the drop off. While the water does cool at the thermo climb it was great to ride right there between 30 and 40 feet getting cooled off with the other Dive Buddies ...
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Dry Suit
Don’t know where it came from but a good start on the ends and outs of dry suits. For those that would like more information there are many places on the web to include the manufactures sites themselves e.g. Diverite http://www.diverite.com/ and DUI http://www.dui-online.com both make great suits. As already indicated the drysuit is a waterproof shell made from a membrane type material: neoprene, foam rubber, or a hybrid of both. Both have advantages and disadvantages that should be researched b...
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Virginia Dive Buddy Get Together
This Coming Weekend!! The following was sent to most of the Virginia divers however the event is open to all that wish to attend. Brunswick Scuba http://www.BrunswickScuba.com is hosting a Dive Buddy get together at Lake Rawlings on Saturday August 11th starting at 09:00 until . . . . . Maybe a Dive Buddy Night Dive Look for the Brunswick Scuba Banner in the set up area by the lake. Entrance fees of 17$ will paid to me upon arrival and sign in on the dive buddy manifest. This invitation is exten...
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Instructional Games
I posted this on another list and am hoping that the instructors here may benifit from it as well as provide their .02cf worth. Ok all as I do not post much I guess it’s my turn to return the favor for some of the good things that I have gleamed from the I2I group. All games, like the one that I am about to introduce, are there to help students get comfortable in the water while concentrating less on the actual skill it takes to perform the game by doing it. As instructors this is what we strive...
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To Pony or not to Pony that is the question.
I have seen a bit of talk about Pony KAK Bail Out Bottles, Spare Air, etc and thought I would put a word or two down on the considering that there are some miss-conceptions about these Clean Clean false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.00...
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