New Years Charter with Troop 602 from Laurel, MD
More adventures aboard the Schooner Conch Pearl, running scuba liveaboard excursions for the Florida National High Adventure Seabase.
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- A little nose bleed.
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- Bonding time.
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- Boys in charge.
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- Ready to rumble!
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- Back from the action!
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- Briefing on dock for the midweek evening at dock.
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- Changing out empties for full cylinders.
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- Setting bcd up on a freshly filled scuba cylinder.
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- Smile for the camera!
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- Pre dive.
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- Mike surveys the scene.
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- Dinner line.
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- Gathering at the line that leads to the ladder.
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- Shiver me timbers!
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- Cousin It!
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- Going down for the night dive.
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- Every night this week we’ve had dinner after dark, because the days are so short.
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- Hauling up the mask dip bucket.
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- Everyone is looking at dolphins swimming on the bow of the boat. I didn’t make it up there in time to get a photo…
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- Duct tape makes an excellent chafe guard–if you know how to use it!
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- What you cannot tell from this picture is that Jackson is heaving the contents of his stomach. Into the end of the rainbow, no less!
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- The tag line is a complicated affair.
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- Evan heading down below for some quality reading! (tell ‘em, Evan!)
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- Setting fenders at the dock.
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- Getting into a tight wetsuit requires flexibility.
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- Bringing down the staysail
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- Head plant!
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- Gearing up
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- Great giant stride!
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- Hermes keeping watch.
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- Returning from the dive.
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- Howdy!
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- Crazy beast!
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- Hoisting the mainsail.
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- Jackson.
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- Cheese bomb!
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- Steering.
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- Father son teamwork.
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- Kirk and Evan securing gear to the line.
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- Happy Divemaster!
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- Oops! Forgot to put on the weight belt first.
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- Perfect giant stride, Mike!
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- Briefing for the night dive.
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- The boys spent a lot of time doing this!
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- Father son teamwork, take two!
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- Nick was a natural at steering!
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- And diving, too!
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- Captain Denny briefs the night divers.
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- Where are all the boys? (downstairs……cards, sleeping, reading….)
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- Do that voodoo you do so well!
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- More puppy love!
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- The push up challenge!
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- Will is in, too!
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- Nick gives it his all!
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- Older stamina prevails!
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- Readying the chain to deploy the anchor.
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- Hydrate or die!
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- It was a challenge to rinse off, because everyone was always cold after the dives.
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- Post dive equipment securing.
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- Lovely sunset.
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- Surface swim.
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- Another surface swim.
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- Everyone loves Hermes, right Taylor?!?
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- Even more puppy love!
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- This is what the dive site looks like from the boat—Toppino’s Buoy.
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- And if you don’t fasten the strap properly, this is what happens to your tank during a dive.
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- The tanks are warm after filling them. And Will liked to cuddle!
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- Howdy, again!
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- Here is what a night dive looks like from the deck. It is easy to see where the divers are as long as they keep their lights on!
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- Will returns from a snorkel at Sombrero.
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- Instructor Will returns from a dive
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- Getting the wetsuit zipped!