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Join us as we explore scuba diving across all 50 states and beyond with our journey.

South Carolina


The Idea Becomes Real

South Carolina started as a road trip—a seven-hour haul to catch the Southern 500 NASCAR race with friends. Naturally, we decided that a race day wasn’t busy enough, so we got up at an ungodly hour on 9/3/23 and drove to Murrells Inlet for a two-tank charter before the green flag even waved.

We dove the Captain Chris Chong Reef with Express Watersports, a 105-foot steel tugboat resting on the seafloor with three decks and the wheelhouse still fully intact. The reef is named in honor of Captain Chris Chong, a boat captain and instructor who tragically passed away in a diving accident in 2017. The tug was intentionally sunk in his memory.

Conditions couldn’t have been better. Visibility hovered around 40 feet, our max depth was 73 feet, and the ocean behaved all day. While hunting for shark teeth along the hull, we spotted a large stingray cruising the sand, and during our safety stop an entire squadron of barracuda hung out beneath the boat with us—casual day at the office.

On the charter, we met a couple from Pennsylvania, including a scuba instructor named Ted. Somewhere between dives, we mentioned our half-serious, half-ridiculous idea of scuba diving all 50 states over the next “decade". We bonded quickly—helped by the fact that Ted was the only other diver rocking a wing and backplate (because yes, it’s a cult, and yes, it’s the only way to dive).

By the end of the day, Ted had invited us to dive the quarry he uses in Pennsylvania. This was really the trip that inspired us to put this crazy idea of scuba diving all 50 states into action and it went from a product of our imagination to a reality.

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Completion Date: Sep 2023

location: murrells Inlet, NC

Virginia

Where It All Began

Our scuba journey kicked off in Virginia in 2021 with our instructor, Ed Fink of Woodbridge Scuba. After earning our Open Water Diver certification, we wasted no time logging dives—lots of them—at Lake Phoenix, which quickly became our training home base for the next two years.

Lake Phoenix is a freshwater limestone quarry located just south of Richmond in Rawlings, VA, and it’s basically a diver’s playground. Beneath the surface you’ll find a helicopter, a plane, buses, cars, tunnels, training platforms, and plenty of swim-throughs to keep things interesting. Add in bass, perch, and crayfish, and there’s always something to see.

Above water, the facility is just as solid. The staff keeps everything well maintained, upgrades are always in progress, and after a long day underwater, we could reliably count on hot showers and clean bathrooms—an underrated luxury after hanging out on the bottom of our favorite flooded industrial site.

For nearly two years, we made a lot of single-day and weekend glamping trips to the quarry, trusty tents in tow. Between fun dives and training, we knocked out a stack of certifications including Search & Recovery, Navigation, Perfect Buoyancy, Dry Suit, Deep Diving, and Enriched Air Nitrox. All that effort paid off when we officially earned our Advanced Open Water Diver titles.

When we committed to diving all 50 states, it only felt right to make Virginia official on 9/10/23. We arrived during a torrential downpour, had the entire quarry to ourselves, and watched a classic southern thunderstorm roll through—from underwater. As we scrambled out to strip our gear, we couldn’t resist sprinting back and jumping off the pier into the quarry one last time. A staff member watched the whole thing from the dry comfort of a golf cart and laughed at us.

To this day, Lake Phoenix remains our home for local diving—and the place where this whole adventure truly began.

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Completion Date: Sep 2023

location: rawlings, va

Pennsylvania

Chasing Cold Water: A Winter Quarry Dive in Pennsylvania

Back in 2022, we scored the same Seac drysuits at a steep discount during Simply Scuba’s going-out-of-business sale. After getting a few dives under our belts, we realized winter diving was absolutely for us. As a warm-up for an upcoming ice-diving trip, we reached out to our South Carolina boat buddy, Ted, who owns a dive shop in Pennsylvania.

Ted invited us to dive with him at Ted’s Scuba in Volant, PA, so we jumped in the car early on a cold February morning (2/4/24) and made the five-hour drive north from the D.C. area. Our destination was Strawberry Quarry, where we dove in 38-degree water. Strawberry is a former rock quarry that’s now flooded and commonly used for local dive training. The shallow end had a thin layer of ice, which confirmed this would be a solid workup dive.

Despite the cold, visibility was great, and the dive went smoothly. We logged a comfortable 24-minute dive using the layering and weight setup we’d planned, and everything performed exactly as hoped. Afterward, we celebrated checking another state off the list with beer and tacos at a local Mexican restaurant with Ted before heading home for the five-and-a-half-hour return trip.

Ten hours of driving in a single day for a relatively short dive taught us one important lesson: that was the first—and last—time we’d ever do that again.

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One lesson I learned the hard way was glove layering. I hadn’t quite dialed in my thermal setup, and about 15 minutes into the dive my hands were completely frozen, forcing me to call the dive earlier than I wanted and signal that I was cold. While uncomfortable in the moment, it turned out to be a valuable learning experience and allowed me to fix my drysuit glove layers before our Minnesota trip.

Minnesota

Lessons on Thin Ice: Ice Diving in Minnesota

With a cold-water warm-up dive behind us, the next state on the list was Minnesota. Most people don’t think scuba diving in a frozen lake sounds fun, but we fully embrace what we like to call type 2 fun—so we said, “Bring on the suck!”

Ice diving had always looked incredibly cool to us, and while researching options, we discovered North America’s largest ice diving festival in the Twin Lakes region of Minnesota. Hosted by the Midwest School of Diving, the event offered everything we needed: multiple instructors for certification, opportunities for fun dives with already ice-certified divers, scuba manufacturer reps, drysuit rentals, and support from local fire, rescue, and police agencies. Friends, family, and all the specialized equipment required for ice diving would be there—as long as the ice held.

Everything sounded perfect going into the trip… until we arrived to 60-degree Fahrenheit sunshine during the first week of March (3/2/24). The warm weather was melting the ice so quickly that there was a very real chance the entire festival would be canceled at the last minute.

The night before diving was scheduled to begin, we completed our classroom training in a hotel conference room with our instructor, Ron Knafla. We clicked with him immediately. After dunking our heads into a cooler full of ice water to prove we wouldn’t panic during the real thing, Ron stayed late to answer our endless questions about setup and gear configurations.

It truly came down to the eleventh hour. On the morning of the first day, we showed up—and it was on. While conditions weren’t ideal, there was still enough ice to proceed. Because the ice was thinner than preferred, multiple rectangular lanes were cut side by side from shore, like bowling alleys, and we entered the water from those walk-in lanes.

With so many divers walking in from shore, visibility near the lanes dropped to just a few feet, especially in the shallows, which caused more than a few challenges. After pushing through tough conditions and earning our SDI ice diving certifications, we were rewarded with fun dives in an area with significantly better visibility. There, we were finally able to fully enjoy both the challenge and the beauty of ice diving.

In many ways, earning our ice certifications under less-than-ideal conditions prepared us exceptionally well for future demanding dive environments. After the diving wrapped up and cleanup was complete, Ron generously spent more time with us, letting us pick his brain about diving. We learned a tremendous amount during those two days with him.

Sadly, we later learned on a different ice diving trip the following year that Ron had tragically and unexpectedly passed away. We both wished we could have had the chance to dive with him more than just that one time.

Midwesterners really are something special, and Minnesota treated us incredibly well. Friends we’d met on a previous dive trip in the Bahamas let us couch surf in downtown Minneapolis and showed us some fantastic bars and food spots. We’re deeply grateful for their hospitality—and for everyone who helped make this trip, and future Midwest adventures, possible.


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North East Trip

Seven States in Four Days: A Truly Questionable Plan

Sometime during a winter night—probably bored and sitting at a bar—we hatched a very silly plan. It was beautifully simple: dive seven states in four days. All the New England states are close together anyway, right?

On 6/15/24, we landed in Burlington, Vermont at 10 a.m. already on a time crunch and immediately got to work. We had seven hours to grab our bags, secure a rental car, drive to a Vermont dive shop, pick up cylinders, dive both Vermont and New York, and return those cylinders by 5 p.m. If that didn’t sound ambitious enough, we also needed to be back in Boston for a 9 a.m. dive charter the next morning. No problem.

Waterfront Dive Center on the shore of Lake Champlain was fantastic to work with and fully supported our ridiculous plan—provided we got the tanks back on time. They recommended a nearby training site about 15 minutes away. When we arrived, we were greeted by a long walk downhill that we knew would be far less fun on the way back up. We humped our gear down, splashed in, and were rewarded with a glorious five feet of visibility.

We swam out to about 17 feet and spent 26 minutes mostly just trying not to lose each other while keeping an eye out for the lake’s local cryptid champ—the Champlain monster. Honestly, it was pretty fun. The poor visibility, unusual for this lake, was due to bad weather the night before, and we’d love to come back someday to dive the wrecks Lake Champlain is known for.

After climbing back up what somehow felt like a much bigger hill, we packed up and drove an hour south to Lake George, New York. We arrived at the site at 3:03 p.m. Problem solved by squeezing in an absolutely wonderful 20-minute dive in nearly 100-foot crystal-clear visibility. We found a hat, dropped to about 33 feet, popped back to the surface, complained that we didn’t have a boat and a full day to dive the lake, and drove back to Burlington to return our rentals.

We rolled into Waterfront Dive Center at 4:50 p.m. The owner spent time chatting with us about the trip and recommending other local sites to come back to—hospitality we really appreciated. With our New York–Vermont sprint complete, we drove three and a half hours to Boston and crashed for the night.

The next morning, we walked our gear down the street and boarded a Boston Scuba charter bound for Graves Lighthouse in Boston Harbor. This was our second dive on their boat, the Keep-Ah. The first time had involved rough seas, strong currents, cold water, and eight-foot visibility—but there were lobsters, which is really all we need. This time, conditions were far more manageable, with double the visibility.

The underwater terrain around Graves Light is a rocky playground packed with starfish, lobsters, and more fish than you’d expect so close to a major city. Shoutout to the Deer Island Water Treatment Plant for making that possible. The lighthouse itself looks like it belongs in a dark New England thriller, though we had it on a sunny summer day.

After the charter, we rented cylinders from Boston Scuba and spent the afternoon bar-hopping downtown with friends—including drinking a cold Sam Adams across from Sam Adams’ actual gravesite.

Early the next day, we drove to Stonington, Connecticut for a shore dive at Dubois Beach. We spent 30 enjoyable minutes underwater with lots of small fish and crabs before packing up and heading to Rhode Island. At Fort Wetherill State Park, we dove both coves. The first offered about 10 feet of visibility and a healthy population of flounder that repeatedly jump-scared us. The entry was easy, the rock formations were fun to explore, and we’d happily dive it again.

After an hour break, we splashed at the second cove just as the sun was setting. We took things cautiously since it was a new site with some current, and while the bottom would have been flat and muddy without it, the sheer amount of life made the dive fantastic. We saw flounder, large fish, crabs, and even a Chesapeake Bay blue crab—instantly recognizable from eating so many back home. Midway through the dive, we encountered a school of small bioluminescent squid, one of which aggressively attacked its reflection in Shaker’s mask. Sadly, we couldn’t stay long with our cephalopod friends and had to turn the dive.

We rewarded ourselves for not dying with a luxurious dinner at Chili’s and a two-hour drive back to Boston.

Day four started early with a drive to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. We had arranged to meet a local shop owner to show us dive sites in both New Hampshire and Maine. Problem: they never showed up. After waiting outside the shop for over an hour, we headed to Fort Stark State Park and dove a site recommended by scuba forums.

The water was a chilly 49 degrees at the mouth of the Piscataqua River, but visibility was excellent. We swam through seagrass and watched tiny shrimp until a leaky drysuit ended the dive at 16 minutes. We returned to the shop that forgot about us, and to their credit, they apologized and filled our empty cylinders for free. The owner also gave us advice on diving Nubble Lighthouse in Maine.

Nubble Lighthouse is allegedly the most photographed lighthouse in the U.S., and after diving it, we understand why. The lighthouse sits on a rocky island just offshore, and we dove the narrow gap between. It’s an excellent cold-water dive and one we’d recommend to anyone prepared for the conditions. We saw fish, plants, and plenty of lobsters. We spent 41 minutes and reached 44 feet exploring the island’s edges—and would’ve stayed longer if we could.

We had been told the entry and exit point was a little dicey and didn't believe it because we had an easy go of it getting in other than a short rock scramble down to the water. Getting out was a completely different story, we had to time the wave motion just right to get pitched up on the rocks then get out of the way before the next wave hit us and we got to do it with a crowd watching above us.

We celebrated with lobster rolls in Maine, returned our rentals in Boston, and officially called it a trip. We love diving in New England—it’s cold, challenging, and different in all the best ways. Nubble Lighthouse is a top-10 dive for both of us, and there’s still so much we want to return and explore… preferably not all in four days next time.


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Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maine

New York

  • Lake George

  • Cold but really beautiful

  • Would love to go back and visit

  • First drysuit leak of the trip

  • Only got worse every dive with either having to drive to the next destination immediately or not being allow to properly let drysuit to dry overnight

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Massachusetts

In August of 2023, the adventures continue to the Northeast in Boston, MA. Went out with Boston Scuba. Dove Martin's Ledge and Calf Island.

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Completion Date: august 2023

location: boston, ma

Connecticut

Stonington, CT @ Dubois Beach

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Rhode Island

  • Amazing protected bay for scuba divers

  • Only people there at the time

  • North and south shore entries

  • Second dive, occurred during the night time

    • Amazing marine life

    • Luminescent squid

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New Hampshire

  • Piscataqua River (Fort Stark State Park)

  • Last minute decision made onsite as dive shop forgot about us coming before the shop opened

  • We were supposed to meat up with a divemaster before the shop opened that day to take us out who knew the area and the waters

  • Found a decent area to dive after stalling and grabbing breakfast at a local diner

  • Met up with shop once they finally opened and made it right by giving us a free air fill to go diving

  • Short dive - very cold with drysuit still having a slight leak

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Maine

  • Nubble Lighthouse

  • One of the top 10 dives

  • Nubble is one of the most photographed lighthouses in the U.S.

  • Parking was limited and people/tourists everywhere

  • A lot of people thought we were like navy seal divers. Everyone is there to look over the wonderful views and obviously see the lighthouse. Lots of people came up to us and asked us what we were doing, you are crazy, etc.

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New Jersey

  • What a shit trip

  • Original plan to drive north from D.C., find a hotel in Philadelphia, make the rest of the drive early the next morning to the most northern dive spot. And sequentially, start heading back south and dive Delaware, and finish strong with Maryland.

  • Made it to NJ just fine, was the middle of June, and very hot outside. Water was still cold

  • Worst visibility thus far

  • Absolutely horrendously smelling and dirty water

  • Couldn’t see any information on dive computer

  • Short dive

  • Dove with my key in my drysuit and locked the car, while leaving the key fob in the truck

  • Found out after the dive that the key doesn’t unlock the door

  • Had never tried it, always just used the key fob and was locked out of the car

  • We had a very strict schedule to follow in order to make the ferry over into Delaware, and eventually make in to the MD dive

  • Jerry rigged a lockout kick with sticks and anything we could find to make a jam between the door and doorframe

  • Flagged down a biker who offered to go down to the rangers office to send someone over

  • While that was in progress, we spotted a park ranger on a golf cart who radioed a cruiser unit with a real lockout kit to get us in

  • We were on the verge of still having enough time to make the ferry but it would be cutting it very close

  • About an hour into the drive, we stopped to get gas real quick and Shaker realized he lost his very expensive dive computer

  • We drove back to the park in NJ, went to the spot we had the truck parked, retraced our steps, and were unsuccessful in finding it

  • Ending up going back to the ranger office and filled out a lost item form

  • This drive back to the NJ spot was very awkward and you could hear a pin drop, we just weren’t really talking to each other not having a good time

  • Made it to Delaware and Shaker found his dive computer strapped onto the wrist portion of his sleeve on the drysuit. IT was flipped inside out so the dive computer was now on the inside

  • We suited up and walked out to the dive location we picked for the DE dive

  • This wasn’t just thick dirty water, it was heavy mud

  • After trying to keep optimistic and hoping the mud was going to change to water, I decided to call the dive

  • There was no way we were going to breath under a thick layer of mud or see or be able to actually dive

  • Quickly did some research back at the truck and found another DE spot about an hour away

  • Found parking near a beach access, kitted up, and had to walk about a quarter file in hot thick sand

  • Being in the drysuit and haven’t stopped moving all day, dehydrated and tired, I was gassed by the time we got to the water

  • It was low tide at this point and the swells at the shore were getting bigger and more unstable

  • I had to call the dive due to it being unsure and too unsafe for diving conditions

  • Shaker was really mad and maybe even a little disappointed, but I was not in the right mindset to continue any longer

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North Carolina

In July of 2023, the two finally decided to try something new and drove to another freshwater quarry in Thomasville, NC. Mike and Shaker arrived late at night to the site, around midnight, to meet the owner, who was gracious enough to let them into the grounds of Blue Stone Dive Resort after hours. They received a quick tour of the facility and setup their tents to begin a weekend of "glamping" and diving at the park.

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It is not obvious yet, but you will start to notice a common theme with the issues I will start to accumulate with my dry suit due to various leaks or failures. During my first or second dive at Blue Stone, my inflator valve completely busted off my drysuit and it instantly flooded my suit and all the undergarments underneath. Luckily I brought my 7mm wetsuit as a backup. This came in handy as I had an alternative way to continue diving, even though I wouldn't be nearly as warm as in the drysuit. This became a good lesson early on in my diving career that anything can happen with your gear and/or equipment. It is really important to maintain your gear properly and and know how to troubleshoot issues on the go.

Completion Date: July 2023

location: Thomasville, NC

West Virginia

  • Summersville Lake

  • Brought 3mm because I thought it was going to be much warmer

  • It was actually pretty warm at the surface, but we dove two fairly deep dives with a intense thermal cline

  • Definitely had wished I brought warmer thermal protection, at least a 7mm or drysuit

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California

  • San Diego

  • Amazing dive on the S.S. Yukon

  • Waterhorse

  • Kelp forests

  • Beautiful Pacific cold water diving

  • Great boat and decent weather conditions

  • Was just a little overcast, which made it cold on the boat

  • One of the best wreck dives we’ve done to this day

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Arizona

  • Lake pleasant

  • Morristown, AZ

  • Grew up not too far from this lake and had visited a few times in my earlier days, never thought I would come back and dive it

  • Met up with my dad’s coworker who was just looking to go diving with some new people. I guess it’s hard to find a scuba community in AZ haha

  • Not a whole lot to see but good visibility

  • Had to deploy SMBs as we all got a little lost on the second dive that day

  • Makes for good practice

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Tennessee

  • Flew out and met some friends for this trip

  • Original plan was to dive a quarry a few hours south of Nashville and dive Kentucky the net day

  • We ended up finishing a scuba shop in Nashville to rent tanks (and a SMB) and landed on Priest Lake

  • This was a bit of a mess as well since, Shaker lost one fin in the middle of our dive

  • We spent the rest of the dive doing a search and recovery mission in finding the missing fin

  • It was unfortunately not found

  • Still had enough time to take a short drive to

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Kentucky

  • Still had enough time to take a short drive to Hopkinsville, KY to dive Blue Springs Quarry

  • Excellent diving quarry with lots of different props to see underwater and keep us busy including a Cesna 172, firetruck, cars, busses, tunnels and other swimthroughs

  • Had a really deep section at the far end as well

  • Very versatile quarry and we could have spend days more there

  • Ended up doing two dives there before they closed

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New Mexico

  • Santa Rosa, New Mexico Blue Hole

  • Elevation diving

  • Extra planning involved with surface intervals and off gassing that you don’t really have to worry about at sea level

  • Stayed in Santa Rosa area for 3 hours to properly off gas being making the journey 2 hours back to Albuquerque

  • Spent the rest of the trip doing the Fiesta Balloon Festival

  • One of the largest hot air balloon festivals in the country

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Florida

  • This was another trip that we planned with friends and did other things than just diving

  • My friends and I are into Nascar and we did a tour of Daytona Speedway

  • Stayed in a nice AirBnB

  • Dove at Devil’s Den

  • Spectacular little fresh water cavern

  • Not too many divers in the water, timed it out nicely so that we were the only ones in the water at the end of the dive

  • Walker and Corrie went to a little garden tour next door to the cavern

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Georgia

  • Georgia Aquarium

  • Specifically planned out a overnight stay/sleepover at the aquarium and dive all within the short little window we were in Atlanta

  • Swam in a guided tour with the dive masters

  • Exhibit was full of grupers, sword sharks, and WHALE SHARKS

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Delaware

  • Redemption time

  • Found a nice little boat ramp at Augustine Beach in Middletown, DE

  • Coldest dive yet amazingly enough even though there was no ice

  • It was salt water and there was a bit of a current to keep the water from completely freezing

  • Plenty of other static ponds and lakes were frozen over around this area

  • Poor visibility and we got into a little bit of an entanglement with the reels we were using to stay with each other and to keep the SMB above us

  • Was a short dive but good to get a nice cold dive in before going to Iowa for our second Ice Diving trip!

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Iowa

As I alluded to in the Minnesota trip, our ice diving instructor had unexpectedly passed about in the year we were out in the midwest last time. With that happening weeks before our planned trip to dive with the MidWest School of Diving Group again. We changed the plans to only dive with this Iowa Ice Diving festival. We were going to do both ice festivals during this trip because we wanted to get Iowa completed of course and just wanted to go back to Minnesota. This was ultimately a much better ice diving experience as we got true ice diving conditions with 18-20 inches of ice on the water and holes that didn’t melt and float away immediately. We got rotated through the different positions required for ice diving like diver, tender, and safety diver. We met some outstanding folks with credentials and qualifications that could take up a whole book. There were technical divers, rebreather divers, technical dive instructors, and gear testers who were trying out new computers and cold water regulators before those products had been released to the public to purchase. The logistics were on point as there was a huge 40 foot by 40 foot tent with commercial heaters, snacks, and hot water to make hot chocolate, tea, coffee, etc. We also met who we consider a bit of a celebrity in scuba, Jennifer Idol, who was the first female to successfully dive all 50 states back in 2016. There was also another couple at the Ice Hole who are attempting to complete all 50 states, but are restricting it to fresh water only.

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  • Lake Michigan

  • wreck dives

  • calm waters

  • the great lakes are eye dropping

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Illinois

  • Haigh Quarry

  • Still no paddlefish

  • Near Dive Right in Scuba

  • Saw shop test

  • Only ones left in quarry at EOD

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Indiana

  • Late to meet at quarry

  • Run down and kind of small

  • Turned out to be a really neat dive

  • Good people

  • Talked to tech/cave dudes for a while after dive

  • Gave us great stickers for cave club, 5 dudes in club

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Ohio

  • Gilboa Quarry

  • Would go back and camp a week

  • Amazing props

  • Goes deep

  • Has wall like dog rocks in Bahamas

  • More tech divers than recreational divers

  • Amazing!

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Washington

  • Mike’s Beach Resort

  • Tank rentals fucked from dive shop in Seatle; supposed to be the best in the area

  • Ended up having paper weights

  • Mike, Shaker, Walker, Chris and Corrie

  • North Cascades National Park

  • Olympic National Park

  • Victoria, BC, Canada

  • Ogden Point

  • Was Wolf eel

  • No octopus though

  • Lots of tires on dropoff into deep end

  • A couple of wrecks

  • Really interesting night dive

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Oregon

  • Willamette River

  • Shellwood Waterfront Park

  • Ok pretty shitty dive

  • Better visibility than expected

  • Rented tanks/weights from cool shop Thunder Divers

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Alaska

  • Matanuska Lake

  • Cool tech oriented shop

  • Spoke to dudes about DPVs

  • “You guys are not some asswholes, those stickers are free for you.”

    • Quote of the trip

  • Recommended probable best local spot due to limited time of shop closing

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