Thursday, February 8, 2007
Cozumel, Here We Come!
Frigid wind blowing through coats, arctic air numbing faces, temperatures plummeting into negative territory. Someone remind me why I'm living on the East Coast.... I grudgingly admit, however, that the cold weather makes you appreciate the warm days. So maybe the high temp in my native San Diego tomorrow will be 70, but when the weather's the same year round, you take it for granted. If I still lived there, I think my enthusiasm for my upcoming escape to Cozumel would be incrementally smaller. Okay, granted, I'd still be thrilled... but I wouldn't appreciate the tropical weather quite so much as I will a few weeks from now.
I've heard Devil's Throat is the "must dive" site in Cozumel. Has anyone dived that site? If so, please post a comment to this blog or send me an email and share your experience. As with the Oceanblue Divers trip to Nassau in December, we'll have a wide range of experience levels on this trip. As exciting as Devil's Throat sounds, the accounts I've read suggest that it's not for beginners. Narrow, dark swim-throughs, potential silt-outs, getting dumped over the lip of the wall at 120 feet... sounds like an adventure to me, but not for everyone!
Or perhaps I've been reading the wrong reports. Perhaps "Devil's Throat" is what you have after a week of breathing bone-dry compressed air and rehydrating with tequila. Cozumel, here we come!
I've heard Devil's Throat is the "must dive" site in Cozumel. Has anyone dived that site? If so, please post a comment to this blog or send me an email and share your experience. As with the Oceanblue Divers trip to Nassau in December, we'll have a wide range of experience levels on this trip. As exciting as Devil's Throat sounds, the accounts I've read suggest that it's not for beginners. Narrow, dark swim-throughs, potential silt-outs, getting dumped over the lip of the wall at 120 feet... sounds like an adventure to me, but not for everyone!
Or perhaps I've been reading the wrong reports. Perhaps "Devil's Throat" is what you have after a week of breathing bone-dry compressed air and rehydrating with tequila. Cozumel, here we come!
Monday, February 5, 2007
Be COOL
Headline after headline indicates our oceans are in crisis — from plummeting seafood stocks to harmful algae blooms to melting ice caps. What progress has the United States made in the last year to turn back the tide on these problems? And where are we falling further behind in the fight to maintain our oceans as a precious natural and economic resource?
The home page of the Conserve Our Ocean Legacy (COOL) campaign poses these questions. Do you know the answers? If not, come out to the Oceanblue Divers happy hour Tuesday night, where COOL Mid-Atlantic Organizer Tara Losoff will discuss ocean conservation and other environmental issues of concern to divers. Click to RSVP and get more info.
The home page of the Conserve Our Ocean Legacy (COOL) campaign poses these questions. Do you know the answers? If not, come out to the Oceanblue Divers happy hour Tuesday night, where COOL Mid-Atlantic Organizer Tara Losoff will discuss ocean conservation and other environmental issues of concern to divers. Click to RSVP and get more info.
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