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| My Status: Wish I were in 85 degree water checking out tropical fishies!
love2dive65 - Thomasville, Georgia USA About Me: Iīm married and have 3 "children" - a bird, a cat, and a dog. Iīve been diving since September of 2005 and have my OW, AOW, and Nitrox certifications. Iīve now got 250 dives and canīt wait to add more! | |
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Gender | Female |
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Favorite Dive Gear | All of it, as long as itīs being used! |
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Favorite Dive Locations | Indonesia (North Sulawesi, Lembeh Strait, Bunaken), Little Cayman, Grand Turk |
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Activities | Diving, reading, playing with my pets |
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Interests | Dive photography, animals |
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Favorite Music | 80īs music, classic rock, classical |
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Favorite TV Shows | Being Human (on BBC America), Dexter, The Glenn Beck Show, NCIS |
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Favorite Movies | Master and Commander, the Indiana Jones movies, James Bond movies, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Undercover Brother |
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Favorite Books | Tim Dorsey books featuring Serge Storms, Mitch Albomīs "The Five People You Meet in Heaven," the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich, books by Glenn Beck |
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Favorite Quotes | "Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are." (Chinese Proverb)"Sorry can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath, and a glass of wine." (Saint Thomas Aquinas) |
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love2dive65's Dive Slate
You must be logged in to your Scuba.com account to write on the dive slate. Click here to create your own free account.  | Love2Dive: I wanted to let you know that Im teaching a free online seminar on the Northern Gulf of Mexico fishes, 1 Feb. You can sign up if interested at reef.org/resources/webinars. ~Carol
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| Love2dive, the īīrespondīī button isnīt working. You asked about dive operations and you are in luck because an outfit based in Tifton, GA just added a second shop in Mexico Beach. It is called Aqua Adventures and their local number is 850-705-1146. Iīve met the owner and checked out the shop and looks like they are running a first class outfit. The photos Iīve seen on Facebook of their dive boat also look very nice. They are a bit into the spear fishing, but they accomodate fish watchers too. If you are going to dive down here, Iīd love you to check out our web site at MBARA.org which is very actively building new reefs for the fishermen and divers. We would love to have you do fish surveys for us and REEF.org if you are into fish watching. We have developed a form and fish photos to help with this effort. Donīt hesitate to contact me for more info. Happy Diving!
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 | More fantastic additions to your slate! Wow!
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 | I love your quotes!! So true!
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 | Hi, if you like to dive around the world I am inviting you to see the first city in America, Santa Marta, at the foot of the tallest mountain in the tropic and a fortress build against the pirateīs attacks in Cartagena and dive along these two sites in the Colombian Caribbean, to do some spearfishing, photo, underwater video, wreck diving, etc., let me know the dates of your stay here to set you up and show you around, thanks
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| Amazing shots with your DC800! Whereīs the next U/W Photo adventure going to be?
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| Thanks for the comment on the mahi photo. That was in the Car Bodies site in Mexico Beach. Several mahi where circling our boat when we came up from our dive.
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| Diving is our top priority whenever the conditions are good (waves and visbility). We also love scalloping and kayaking in St Joe Bay. The scallop season last year was phenomenal. I have underwater photos of the Mexico Beach area at pbase.com/carol202, and my husband and I both post at mbara.org. If you have good photos from MB, I would love to post them on the MBARA web site. Carol
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 | You need to try the Nikon D90 with an ikelite housing and strobe, I just bought the camera and borrowed a housing to try out in the pool, the difference is unbelievable, you donīt have to work as hard to get the same spectacular shot and the colors are so vivid. If you are thinking about stepping up, I would go all the way and go with a DSLR and housing, but a word to the wise, donīt try it if you donīt want to be hooked. I am now saving my pennies for the housing and strobe. Good diveing to you and let me know when you post new pictures. I love looking at all of the great shots my buds take. BTW hope you didnīt have any flood damage with all of the rain, my family is in Birmingham, AL and other than a little standing water in the back yard everything was ok. Dive safe :D
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 | Nice photos yourself, I use the same camera as Dan a Sealife DC800 with a single strobe, I also use a diffuser which makes the pictures softer with less back scatter and noise. I love the quote, īī Tension is who you think you should be, relaxation is who you are.īī BTW what camera did you use?
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