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| The Oceaneer - Brainerd, MN USA About Me: I am both an ADCI certified commercial diver and a PADI rescue diver. I donīt understand the mindset of many in my profession. For some bizaar reason bordering on arrogance many fellow professionals I know canīt wait to get out of the water and have a cold one. They seem to detest the water. It is just where they have to go to do their job and they refer to those that actually like it as "scuba pukes"! I donīt get it and that is not me. When I am done working I canīt wait to go play in the water or plan my next recreational dive! |  |
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Favorite Dive Gear | Atomic Regulators, Kirby Morgan EXO mask, Scuba Pro Hyperthane Drysuit (why did they stop?) |
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Favorite Dive Locations | Florida gulf coast, Lake Tahoe, Dutch Harbor,Alaska, Lake Superior, and Lake Wazee (Black River Falls,WI) |
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Activities | Diving,Motorcycling,snowmobiling,automotive repair,reading,cooking,boating,gardening (vegatables),building things,did I mention diving? |
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Interests | history,technolgy,ecology |
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Favorite Music | ROCK & ROLL! I dig lots of different stuff,classic rock, oldies,heavy metal, easy listening, as long as itīs good, also love the blues, contemporary christian, and some country. |
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Favorite TV Shows | NCIS, Human Target, Caprica, Trauma, Mercy, Documentaries, etc... |
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Favorite Movies | Ironman, Dr.Zhivago, Valkerie, The Last Samarai, The African Queen, etc... |
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Favorite Books | Anything historical, naval, the Bible, anything by Clive Cussler |
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Favorite Quotes | "Donīt take no wooden nickels from anyone". My Grandpa. |
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The Oceaneer'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.  | I see you are into Naval history. Last year I was on the NOAA/Rutgers historical dive to the USS Monitor and will dive it again this summer. It is about 16 miles southeast of Hatteras Island.
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| Without looking at my computer I would guess we splashed about 1100. Even thou were were 40 miles out with cloudless sky and flat seas we didnīt not run into the deep blue water and the Stream must not have moved inward yet. There was lots of particulate matter and millions of bait fish over the wreck which all made for a very dark dive. As for the sharks, North Carolina has some of the best shark diving in the country. My thermal protection is always a black wetsuit and this weekend a black dry suit. Donīt know if the color has anything to do with it, but diving a closed circuit rebreather really does. There are no bubbles so the sharks and other animals move in much closer to take a look. Ed had to bop one large shark on the nose with the reel as he got in really close. I thought it was a little early in the season for the big guys to come in, but I was wrong this year. Karle
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 | I would like to thank everyone for accepting my dive buddy request! Nothing changes if nothing changes. I have travelled so much in the last year and a half. I always bring my recreational dive gear with. So many people I meet in the industry say the same thing, īī no pay, not getting wet.īī. Listen, I love to dive, itīs my thing, itīs what I do. I donīt ever want to lose that feeling! I have never got to do one fun dive on the road. Not one! I have to come home to do that and that seems just wrong. So my plan, meet new people, and people all over that I can realistically hook up with and get some bottom time just because!So on that note, welcome to my world and thank you for including me in yours!
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| Just got home from the first ocean dive of the season. Dove the Hebe, 40 nm off Myrtle Beach. Freighter sunk after collision with the St Cathan. Water cold, 52 on the bottom with sl current. Viz about 10ī, depth 110ī. Lots of sharks and found 25 bottles till I was to cold and ran out of room for more. Dove my Evo ccr, buddy dove his rEvo. 68.40 min run time. Deco was painful being so cold. Great first dive of the season. Karle
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| I feel real guilty. I have been on the road working and have neglected dive buddies and not promptly answered any question asked. I just want to put it out there that this is rude of me and no reflection on anyone else. I apologize and will try to do better.
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 | Hi, I am the first one to write on your slate and I hope to provide you with a chance to go diving to the Caribbean sea, 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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Lake Tahoe 2009
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Mountain Dive Company in Weaverville, CA, USA
I dive the lakes and rivers of Norther California, the Pacific, and Mexico. |
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