March 26th & April 2nd, 2012 (NAUI Openwater Checkout Dives)-YMCA Class Download our dive logs! March 2012 NAUI Scuba Diver Course check out dives. These are photos and video from the checkout dives at Hudson Grotto and Hospital Hole. The group was so big we broke them into two sets of checkout dives. Excellent visibility in Hudson Grotto and great dives at Hospital Hole. Congrats Kim & Darryl! March 24-25, 2012 (NAUI Openwater Checkout Dives)-YMCA Class Download our dive logs! March 2012 NAUI Scuba Diver Course check out dives. These are photos and video from the checkout dives at Hudson Grotto and Hospital Hole. The original plan was to go in the Gulf on Sunday but Mother Nature didn't want to cooperate. Great students and we even got a nice visit from a young female manatee. February 20th, 2012 (NAUI Advanced & Nitrox Checkout Dives) Download our dive logs! February 2012 NAUI Advanced & Nitrox Checkout Dives. These are photos and video from the 2 day course that had students conduct classroom sessions in the AM followed by dives in the PM and following morning. Saturday dives were at Hudson Grotto. The navigation and Search & Recovery Dives were conducted on Nitrox followed by a spectacular night dive to 60+ feet. Sunday morning found us at Hospital Hole where we ventured to 92 feet. Great job to Aaron, Dave, and Paige! October 23rd, 2011 (NAUI Openwater Checkout Dives)-YMCA Class Download our dive logs! October 2011 NAUI Scuba Diver Course check out dives. These are photos and video from the 2 days of checkouts at Hudson Grotto. The original plan was to go in the Gulf on Sunday but Mother Nature didn't want to cooperate. Great job Kim and Chris and congratulations on getting certified. September 2011 (NAUI Openwater Checkout Dives)-YMCA Class Download our dive logs! September 2011 NAUI Scuba Diver Course (YMCA) check out dives. These are pictures and video from our September YMCA class checkouts at Hudson Grotto on the first day of dives. For the second day of dives, we went to a new ledge in the Gulf of Mexico called Mark-Chad. Beautiful ledge loaded with massive schools of bait fish (Check out the videos below) Amazing! Congrats Aaron and Kelly for a job well done! July 2011 (NAUI Openwater Checkout Dives)-YMCA Class Download our dive logs! July 2011 NAUI Scuba Diver Course (YMCA) check out dives. These are pictures and video from our July YMCA class checkouts at Hudson Grotto on the first day of dives. For the second day of dives, we went to a shallow (25ft) ledge in the Gulf of Mexico called Grove. The students were treated to a real treat with 3 turtle encounters and one of the largest Goliath Grouper I have seen in recent years. Huge congrats to Matt, Dominique, and Robert. You guys were amazing! July 2011 (NAUI Openwater Checkout Dives)-Private Class Download our dive logs! July 2011 NAUI Scuba Diver Course (Private) check out dives. These are pictures from a private class checkouts at Hunter Springs (Crystal River) on the first day of dives. For the second day of dives, we went to King Spring in the Crystal River Estuary. Evan and Ethan were amazing and did an excellent job in cold, clearish water! March 26th & 27th, 2011 (NAUI Openwater Checkout Dives) Download our dive logs! March 2011 NAUI Scuba Diver Course check out dives. These are pictures from the YMCA class checkouts at Hudson Grotto on the first day of dives. For the second day of dives, we went to Hospital Hole in the Weeki Wachee River. Will and Jordan did an excellent job! March 19-20th, 2011 Download our dive logs! March 2011 NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver Course check out dives. These are photos and video from both days of checkouts at Hudson Grotto and Hospital Hole in the Weeki Wachee River. Both sites are ideal for Advanced Scuba training dives. At Hudson Grotto, we did Search & Light Salvage/Dusk Dive as well as a night dive. Abby, visiting from Oklahoma, did the first tour of the site before we began the cert dives. Paige and Dale followed with salvage and Night Dives. Day two found us all at Hospital hole were we visited the debris cone (a common cone-shaped pyramid of silt found at the bottom of most suberged sink holes) of Hospital Hole at 95 feet. We followed up that dive with some serach patterns and bearing runs using our compasses. Both days' dives were very good. Congratulations to Paige and Dale on completing their Advanced Scuba Diver Course. March 5th, 2011 Download our dive logs! February 2011 NAUI Scuba Diver Course check out dives. These are photos and video from the 1st day of checkouts at Hudson Grotto. Despite the 68˚ water temp and the dirty looks from Paige, the dives were very good. Visibility was much better at the 30ft line but it was colder than at the platform. Congratulations to Leo and Cardell. January 9th, 2011 Manatee Dive Download our dive logs! 2011 Manatee dives. We do a manatee dive every year and are always amazed by the connections we make with the manatees. This year was no different despite the 39˚ air temperature. This dive was dominated by mothers and calves that were more than happy to learn about scuba divers. These are photos and video from the dives in the Weeki Wachee river. This year the site was also filled with some very large Jacks and sheepshead. October 17th, 2010 (Updated) Download our dive logs! October 2010 NAUI Scuba Diver Course check out dives. These are photos and video from the 2nd day of checkouts at Hudson Grotto. Ciara did a fantastic job navigating through the Witch's Tree and around the Grotto. First day of dives was in the Gulf at Jack's Hole and for the second day of dives, we went to Hudson Grotto. Congratulations Ciara! October 17th, 2010 (Updated) Download our dive logs! October 2010 NAUI Advanced Scuba Diver Course check out dives. These are pictures and video from the advanced class checkouts at Hudson Grotto for our deep and navigation dives. It was dark and 53˚F when we started so the water actually felt pretty good. Congrats to Chris and Heather for finishing up their Advanced Certification! July 28th & 31st, 2010 (Updated) Download our dive logs! August 2010 NAUI Scuba Diver Course check out dives. These are videos from the YMCA class checkouts at Hudson Grotto on the first day of dives. The tanins were out of control. For the second day of dives, we went to Hospital Hole in the Weeki Wachee River. July 28th & 31st, 2010 (Updated) Download our dive logs! July 2010 NAUI Scuba Diver Course check out dives. These are pictures are from the YMCA class checkouts at Grove Ledge and then Jack's Hole (both in the Gulf of Mexico) on the first day of dives. For the second day of dives, we went to Hospital Hole in the Weeki Wachee River. July 17th-23rd, 2010 Download our dive logs! July 2010 NAUI ScubaDiver Course check out dives. This private class started on Saturday with pool work and classroom thru Wednesday, followed by checkouts at Hudson Grotto on Thursday & Friday. June 26th, 2010 Download our dive logs! June 2010 NAUI ScubaDiver Course check out dives. On Saturday we dove two different parts of Grove Ledge. It was the first time we have ever dove the second section. May 22nd, 2010 Download our dive log May 2010 NAUI ScubaDiver Course check out dives. On Saturday we dove Grove Ledge, off of Sea Pines in the Gulf of Mexico. On Sunday we dove Hospital Hole in the Weeki Wachee River. On both days we had very large visitors. Check out the pics and videos to see. April 10th, 2010 Some really cool solution tubes and a small cave with an opening at either end. Very pretty but small and shallow. 2010 Rescue Diver Course  March 28th, 2010 Rescue Diver Weekend at Hudson Grotto. Cold, dark, deep, with no vis. Perfect for Rescue scenarios. |