Oh my goodness! Blue water came in like an old friend. The viz went from 4+ feet to over 60 feet. Spring was right around the corner, and the diving and snorkeling were awesome. Water temperature this time of year is usually a chilly 73 to 75 degrees, but is today at 78 degrees, which… Read More
Spearfishing can be seen as a marine sub-culture on every coast of every country you could imagine. Whether it be small fish you wouldn’t consider in your home town, or massive bluefin tuna you always dreamed about, somebody somewhere is trying to make it happen. Spearfishing here in the Keys provides a huge variety of… Read More
My writing is usually light (borderline journalistically challenged). Today is my day to be serious. Keep reading; it may save a life. Lately, in the Keys, we’ve experienced some bizarre accidents both above and below the water. I want you to understand something VERY IMPORTANT: on any given day, with the sun shining and loved… Read More
Well, we’re a month into the grouper closure and every day I take someone to the reef I cringe at the amount of black grouper that have inhabited the shallow reefs of late. Although the grouper hasn’t been an option recently, there have been tons of great fish around. The middle Keys have been very… Read More
It’s February and with it brings the month of February “Love”. It is promoted and commercialized to every living creature (they even make valentine toys and cards for dogs, iguanas and cats). There is as much pressure for “love” presents in February as a Christmas or wedding anniversary for the PERFECT present for the one… Read More
In the Keys any water that dips below 78 degrees is cold. We’re talking “ice cold”. We are here and not in Alaska or North Dakota because we shiver at the mere mention of 7 mil wet suits or (goodness forbid) the dry suit. We enjoy nothing between us, the water and our B.C. but… Read More
I’m not sure how it really happened or who was at the head of it but somebody started surfing the keys a long time ago. Since then a small group of guys has somehow slid past the public’s view surfing the keys every chance they got. During my upbringing I was told tales and saw… Read More
Oh, my goodness! Bless your heart! Anyone that knows me knows I am from the South. ” South” as in Atlanta (“Gone with the Wind”, Scarlett O’Hara, Rhett Butler and grits). We do Christmas big in Atlanta – fireplaces, hot cocoa, huge trees trimmed from Thanksgiving night and not taken down until January 1st. Our… Read More
Years ago when I first decided to go into the diving industry and make it a career I never would have thought in a million years that a scuba instructor could physically and emotionally change someone’s life. Don’t get me wrong opening the underwater world to new divers can have a dramatic affect on some… Read More
To be in their element – doing all you can to be like them, fit in, and make them feel comfortable with your presence. You have no cover, no real camouflage. It’s just you and them. Then what? That’s where I found myself. Sitting on the surface taking some concentrated breathes to slow my heart… Read More
