Today, Kevin and I meet up with some friendly UTD divers visiting from SoCal. It’s their first trip to Pt. Lobos, and Kevin and I are eager to show them a good time. By the time I arrive at 8:30am the parking lot is already full of divers. It’s one of those rare Fridays that [...]
Day 3 – OW and Cave “Practice only makes permanent. Only perfect practice makes perfect skills.” For the third day, we headed to Minotauro. Through out our trips back to Mexico, Minotauro remained one of my favorites systems. And it was also one of the systems that challenged us during our Full Cave course. As [...]
After last week’s premature dead scooter incident, Elissa and I were eager to revisit Beto’s Reef. Kevin joined us today, and I had plans to make him lead the way. Not only did I want to test a new scooter mount for my point-in-shoot camera, but I was interested in his path to Beto’s. Even [...]
Some pictures taken during our Technical Diver 1 class. For the more details on our class, please see our Tech 1 class report. Many late nights of studying beforehand with available materials and videos. Drive-thru Starbucks, do we need to say more? Elissa stands alone in the Breakwater parking lot on Friday morning. Our uncooperative [...]
I have a good number of old SL4s and wanted to convert these to LED. Following the instructions from ScubaBoard and South West Mafia prove quite successful. Order CREE 2 drop in module. Cree R2 Drop-In 1-Mode LED Module (3.7V~18V / 26.5mm x 29mm). Item# 11836 Wait… shipping’s from HK. Make a spacer Match the [...]
This Tuesday, dove with Mike G. Since Mike has never lead at Lobos, we agreed that he should lead both dives today. Mike dives single HP100s, so I had the opportunity to dive my single LP80s. Surface conditions were great – calm waters, little surge, and beautiful sun beaming down. In the water, conditions were [...]