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Travel Tech

Protecting Expensive and Fragile Equipment While Traveling

When flying, we are limited in the number and size of the bags we’re allowed to bring on board. But sometimes it’s worth dedicating one of those bags to our expensive or fragile equipment in order to keep it safe.

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Scuba Diving

Revisiting (Scuba Diving) the Tracy Wreck in Fort Lauderdale

Lots of travel, bad weather, and equipment servicing had all gotten in the way of our diving and, believe it or not, we had not been out for a dive since the end of February. Well, this Friday we had 84-degree seas, waves under one foot and visibility approaching 50-60ft. It was a perfect day […]

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Conservation Scuba Diving

Deerfield Pier Cleanup and a New World Record

Some of you may remember, and some of you may even have been there, but last summer we participated in a pier cleanup at the Deerfield Beach Pier, and in an attempt at setting a world record for the Longest Human Chain Underwater.

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Scuba Diving

Diving the Ancient Mariner off Deerfield Beach

We finally got our chance to dive the Ancient Mariner wreck off Deerfield Beach. It was the perfect February day with lots of sunshine and flat seas. We love Florida winters, and even the 75-degree seas aren’t so bad with a 3mm suit and a hoodie 🙂 With 30-40 feet visibility and only a small […]

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Scuba Diving

Diving the Wrecks of Grenada’s South Coast

One of the things that drew us to Grenada was the Bianca C wreck. Being able to scuba dive on a sunken cruise ship is something you don’t get to do every day—unless you live in Grenada! In addition to wrecks, we found that there were some remarkable, healthy and colorful reefs, making for some […]

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Dive Vacations Scuba Diving

Scuba Diving Vacation at the True Blue Bay Resort in Grenada

As scuba divers, we have come to enjoy the idea of dive resorts; basically hotels that cater to divers by having a local dive operator, offer special rates that include diving, and are of course located at interesting dive destinations. To date we’ve tried three of these: Compass Point, Anthony’s Key and now True Blue […]

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Scuba Diving

Snorkeling the Kittiwake

Yes, you read that right, snorkeling! We can hardly believe it ourselves. Being avid divers, and getting to Grand Cayman through a series of unfortunate events we ended up on the Kittiwake without a scuba tank. Ok, not that snorkeling was bad; it was just so frustrating to see through that 100+ foot visibility all the […]

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Scuba Diving

Diving the Graveyard of the Caribbean in Roatan

Wrecks intrigue me—I find them fascinating and just love seeing their ghostly shape appear as I descend into the deep upon them. I wonder about their history and how they got there. Were they shipwrecked or purposely sunk to create artificial reefs where corals can grow and sea life can find refuge?

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Dive Vacations Scuba Diving

Scuba Diving Vacation at Antony’s Key Resort, Roatan

Ever since our amazing Tahiti trip where we first saw them, we’ve always wanted to try an overwater bungalow! We were delighted to find out that it’s possible to do this without traveling all the way to the South Pacific. Anthony’s Keys Resort is one such place on the island of Roatan in Honduras that […]

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Scuba Diving

Diving the 2nd and 3rd Largest Artificial Reefs in the World

The Florida Keys have a lot of wrecks, and with our weekend trip we picked the two largest, and the two bookends of the Florida Keys Shipwreck Trail. We’d been dreaming of doing these two world-famous wrecks for a while now, and could not resist. After our experience I can say that the sheer size of […]