The First Official ARFCOM SCUBA Pic Thread (Page 2 of 3)
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Originally Posted By klinc:
I guess they changed the sign since then. <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0134.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0134.jpg</a> Looking up form the sign. <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0122.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0122.jpg</a> Also a couple more... <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/G0061559_zps8d558431.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/G0061559_zps8d558431.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0041_zpsc04adb0c.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0041_zpsc04adb0c.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0038_zpsade3eeff.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0038_zpsade3eeff.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/vlcsnap-2013-07-22-11h08m53s171_zpsd16998aa.png.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/vlcsnap-2013-07-22-11h08m53s171_zpsd16998aa.png</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0563_zps81f2e373.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0563_zps81f2e373.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0607_zps78094cdc.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0607_zps78094cdc.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/180199_3913017499182_638125552_n_zpse5daabda.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/180199_3913017499182_638125552_n_zpse5daabda.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/182383_3913033979594_110348002_n.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/182383_3913033979594_110348002_n.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0007_zps46361bde.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0007_zps46361bde.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/577596_3913027179424_365309815_n.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/577596_3913027179424_365309815_n.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/CreatureFeaturedivekiss.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/CreatureFeaturedivekiss.jpg</a> Originally Posted By klinc:
Originally Posted By Nostromo:
one of my checkout dives in Blue Spring, FL back in 2009 http://i.imgur.com/v3URA5K.jpg <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0134.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0134.jpg</a> Looking up form the sign. <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0122.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0122.jpg</a> Also a couple more... <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/G0061559_zps8d558431.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/G0061559_zps8d558431.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0041_zpsc04adb0c.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0041_zpsc04adb0c.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0038_zpsade3eeff.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0038_zpsade3eeff.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/vlcsnap-2013-07-22-11h08m53s171_zpsd16998aa.png.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/vlcsnap-2013-07-22-11h08m53s171_zpsd16998aa.png</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0563_zps81f2e373.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0563_zps81f2e373.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0607_zps78094cdc.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0607_zps78094cdc.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/180199_3913017499182_638125552_n_zpse5daabda.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/180199_3913017499182_638125552_n_zpse5daabda.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/182383_3913033979594_110348002_n.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/182383_3913033979594_110348002_n.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/PICT0007_zps46361bde.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/PICT0007_zps46361bde.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/577596_3913027179424_365309815_n.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/577596_3913027179424_365309815_n.jpg</a> <a href="http://s49.photobucket.com/user/clinck/media/CreatureFeaturedivekiss.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f297/clinck/CreatureFeaturedivekiss.jpg</a> They've changed to 'The Reaper' on/along '03 or so. The Reaper signs have become the universal Cave warning, when I was in MX they were sporting the Reaper but back in '01/'02 it was the older style.... |
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a couple of videos from yesterdays training in Lake Rawlings VA. Once a year the team goes to clear water for skills work.
body bagging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LLQcCgOEOs&feature=youtu.be Me maintaining my perfect physique. Water WOD. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVx18n_6GX4&feature=youtu.be A Marine Patrol (not dive team) guy with us.... (lack of FFM) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W38OvbdO0TA&feature=youtu.be will upload some stills later |
Doing my deep diver class:
Making some final buoyancy adjustments at 25 feet before beginning my descent - still trying to perfect it using doubles as I've only dove in them a few times so far. The initial adjustment always takes me a minute or two, but on-the-fly is easy.Right about the time I got my trim and weighting PERFECT in my old BC with a single tank, I sold it and got a BP/W and twin 100's. 
Checking out the cavern walls and ceiling at around 55-60 feet. 
At the bottom, around 100 feet. Max depth that day was 103 feet. All taken at Blue Grotto in Williston, FL. We were the only ones there that day (it was a Monday) except for a couple that did their last dive as we were gearing up for our first. It was awesome. |
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Originally Posted By floridahunter07:
Doing my deep diver class: At the bottom, around 100 feet. Max depth that day was 103 feet. All taken at Blue Grotto in Williston, FL Same place. Musta found a hole!! 
Who (shop) was instructing? |
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Some videos from last week in the Bahamas. I have 200 pics too. Might post some. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpUCHUyf5B0&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPQ0J9nwCQs&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lct7MUNwBSE&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiuirizPcgM&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xLUoIt-WPY&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Duc-I7FPaw&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpMwqWo--rw&feature=youtu.be |
It's been a long time since I've been over the edge.....
Got PADI cert. while stationed in Turkey in '97. A couple of pics from '01 near Dry Tortugas, Fl. 
http://scuba_rat.tripod.com/dive_trip.htm I need to all my gear checked and take a refresher course. . |
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Finished PADI OW last September and immediately 8 dives in like two months. I'm hooked. Going to finish PADI AOW this summer, maybe do PADI Rescue Diver as well.
Here's a snap from one of my first dives in Panama City Beach after OW. This is one of the two F101 Voodoo fighterplanes that were sunk off PCB. 
And other at the anchor line: 
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Another proud كافر
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Yeah, I'm a tard and didn't post pics in here from my latest trip. It was a couple months ago.
Making up for it now. Dive buddy:  DSCN2904 by Zack, on Flickr
Hawksbill:  DSCN2948 by Zack, on Flickr
 DSCN2951 by Zack, on Flickr
 DSCN2972 by Zack, on Flickr
Dive buddy again, yes her alternate air source fell when she got out of the boat to walk back to the shop. I noticed it right after taking this :
 DSCN2982 by Zack, on Flickr
Cool colors:  DSCN3020 by Zack, on Flickr
123 DEATH!!!  DSCN3030 by Zack, on Flickr
Divemaster buddy breathing a large fella that ran out of air:  DSCN3067 by Zack, on Flickr
Silhouette:  DSCN3072 by Zack, on Flickr
Me and dive buddy:  34 by Tracey Jones, on Flickr
I peench:  DSCN3118 by Zack, on Flickr
Mini squid:  DSCN3154 by Zack, on Flickr
Nemo's cousin:  DSCN3157 by Zack, on Flickr
Friendly little porcupinefish ( pretty sure that's what this is)  DSCN3181 by Zack, on Flickr
And we close with dive buddy:  DSC_9749 by Zack, on Flickr
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Originally Posted By HBAR16: Finished PADI OW last September and immediately 8 dives in like two months. I'm hooked. Going to finish PADI AOW this summer, maybe do PADI Rescue Diver as well. Here's a snap from one of my first dives in Panama City Beach after OW. This is one of the two F101 Voodoo fighterplanes that were sunk off PCB. http://www.knology.net/~decker/hobbies/scuba/2014-09%20BDD%20Voodoo%20Fighters.jpg And other at the anchor line: http://www.knology.net/~decker/hobbies/scuba/2014-1025%20PCB%20scuba%20downline%20smaller.jpg That's an anchor line? Were you diving from a kayak? |
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Zach3g…
First: nice pictures.  I have never seen a mantis shrimp in person. Part of me would be nervous to be that close. 
Second: Time for me to be an asshole : your dive buddy's dangles are killing me, man. Get her to clip off that SPG!
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Fear became the ultimate tool of this government...
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Originally Posted By SparticleBrane:
Zach3g… First: nice pictures. I have never seen a mantis shrimp in person. Part of me would be nervous to be that close.
Second: Time for me to be an asshole : your dive buddy's dangles are killing me, man. Get her to clip off that SPG!Bad habit, yes. But it was hanging loose for a reason, so her instructor and I could peek at it.
Turns out, being as tiny as she is she can use one of the smaller scuba tanks, what is it a AL63? and run neck and neck with me on an AL80, consumption wise. I'm pretty good on air. I'm not sure she even breathes 
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Originally Posted By Jake-The-Snake:
nice!!! like it was posing for you! you see many octos there? Not so much posing as me just following it very close and taking as many pictures as I could while it tried to get away. I don't see as many as I would like. They're without a doubt my favorite critter to see while diving. We saw three that day (2 that were probably in the middle of mating before we oc-blocked them). That was the first time I had seen any in a few months though. |
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- Daniel Tosh on ethnicity flavored cannibalism
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Originally Posted By pathfinder74: Not so much posing as me just following it very close and taking as many pictures as I could while it tried to get away. I don't see as many as I would like. They're without a doubt my favorite critter to see while diving. We saw three that day (2 that were probably in the middle of mating before we oc-blocked them). That was the first time I had seen any in a few months though. Originally Posted By pathfinder74: Originally Posted By Jake-The-Snake: nice!!! like it was posing for you! you see many octos there? Not so much posing as me just following it very close and taking as many pictures as I could while it tried to get away. I don't see as many as I would like. They're without a doubt my favorite critter to see while diving. We saw three that day (2 that were probably in the middle of mating before we oc-blocked them). That was the first time I had seen any in a few months though. I like seeing lionfish here in Florida, they're yummy. |
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Originally Posted By TailHunter:
I like seeing lionfish here in Florida, they're yummy. Originally Posted By TailHunter:
Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By Jake-The-Snake:
nice!!! like it was posing for you! you see many octos there? Not so much posing as me just following it very close and taking as many pictures as I could while it tried to get away. I don't see as many as I would like. They're without a doubt my favorite critter to see while diving. We saw three that day (2 that were probably in the middle of mating before we oc-blocked them). That was the first time I had seen any in a few months though. I like seeing lionfish here in Florida, they're yummy. We have 1-2 resident lionfish here. They must be same sex because they're not procreating and becoming an invasive species like other places. |
"White people? You don't eat white people. I don't make the rules."
- Daniel Tosh on ethnicity flavored cannibalism
- Daniel Tosh on ethnicity flavored cannibalism
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Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
We have 1-2 resident lionfish here. They must be same sex because they're not procreating and becoming an invasive species like other places. Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By TailHunter:
Originally Posted By pathfinder74:
Originally Posted By Jake-The-Snake:
nice!!! like it was posing for you! you see many octos there? Not so much posing as me just following it very close and taking as many pictures as I could while it tried to get away. I don't see as many as I would like. They're without a doubt my favorite critter to see while diving. We saw three that day (2 that were probably in the middle of mating before we oc-blocked them). That was the first time I had seen any in a few months though. I like seeing lionfish here in Florida, they're yummy. We have 1-2 resident lionfish here. They must be same sex because they're not procreating and becoming an invasive species like other places. Lionfish are not an invasive species in the mid to western Pacific. They exist there naturally. |
Last one is the birthday cake my girlfriend made me last year, everyone enjoyed it 
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Ballroom @ Ginnie again on Thursday 07/23/15.... diving in a t-shirt and nylon shorts was kind of a mistake, I got real cold and had a leg cramp that would have crippled Satan himself right at the end of the dive
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"Shit like this is why people up-armor a bulldozer and head for City Hall." - Echo_Hotel
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington
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Originally Posted By floridahunter07:
https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xft1/t31.0-8/11754330_10156033410280413_572134129166763872_o.jpg https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/t31.0-8/11779771_10156033410340413_7202637368754980917_o.jpg https://scontent-mia1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xta1/t31.0-8/11779803_10156038899720413_6298321130982891336_o.jpg Ballroom @ Ginnie again on Thursday 07/23/15.... diving in a t-shirt and nylon shorts was kind of a mistake, I got real cold and had a leg cramp that would have crippled Satan himself right at the end of the dive I eyeballed those T-shirts at Cave Country and I never got the impression that they'd offer a lot of thermal protection. |
Look, when I woke up this morning I had no plans to be sexy, but shit happens!
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Originally Posted By jerrwhy01:
I eyeballed those T-shirts at Cave Country and I never got the impression that they'd offer a lot of thermal protection. I've always enjoyed swimming in the springs in a bathing suit, and even when I first started diving a couple years ago I would only wear swim trunks and a tank top when I dove in the Rainbow River. By the time I got done setting my gear up at Ginnie that day, the heat and the bugs (flies were fucking horrible near the pavilions) were so bad I just loaded up and dove in to get away from them both. It felt great for the first 15-20 minutes, but then I swam into the run and stood up talking to my family for a few minutes, which dried me off for the most part... going back under after that kinda sucked.
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"Shit like this is why people up-armor a bulldozer and head for City Hall." - Echo_Hotel
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington
"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington
WARNING: Head mounted cam..viewer may get  Put your beer down prior to viewing.
Typical dive in Jupiter: sharks, turtles and GG's. This was the tunnels ending at what I believe is the donut hole. Jupiter Dive Center is an excellent outfit to dive with. I can't embed |
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Originally Posted By bap:
WARNING: Head mounted cam..viewer may get Put your beer down prior to viewing.
Typical dive in Jupiter: sharks, turtles and GG's. This was the tunnels ending at what I believe is the donut hole. Jupiter Dive Center is an excellent outfit to dive with. I can't embed I don't know what a GG is, but I saw a Jewfish |
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Originally Posted By TailHunter:
I don't know what a GG is, but I saw a Jewfish Originally Posted By TailHunter:
Originally Posted By bap:
WARNING: Head mounted cam..viewer may get Put your beer down prior to viewing.
Typical dive in Jupiter: sharks, turtles and GG's. This was the tunnels ending at what I believe is the donut hole. Jupiter Dive Center is an excellent outfit to dive with. I can't embed I don't know what a GG is, but I saw a Jewfish Just being politically correct and a hipster, Goliath Grouper. That this was as big as my ecobox Toyota. |
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Originally Posted By bap:
Just being politically correct and a hipster, Goliath Grouper. That this was as big as my ecobox Toyota. Originally Posted By bap:
Originally Posted By TailHunter:
Originally Posted By bap:
WARNING: Head mounted cam..viewer may get Put your beer down prior to viewing.
Typical dive in Jupiter: sharks, turtles and GG's. This was the tunnels ending at what I believe is the donut hole. Jupiter Dive Center is an excellent outfit to dive with. I can't embed I don't know what a GG is, but I saw a Jewfish Just being politically correct and a hipster, Goliath Grouper. That this was as big as my ecobox Toyota.
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Common Sense isn't as Common as Commonly Thought
Diving the M/V Captain Keith Tibbetts off Cayman Brac its a Koni Class Frigate |
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Diving with kids is the best.
Here's my son on his 11th birthday on French Reef. I was amazed at how quickly he took to diving. Attached File Here's my daughter at Morrison Springs in the FL panhandle. 9 years old in this picture. We just swam around the shallow end of the springs looking at all the bluegills and bass. Despite being a bit chilly, she took to the water like a fish. Attached File |
