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10-11-2007, 11:08 AM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Springfield, IL
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|  Last trip of the season
This Saturday will be the final trip of the year for me up to lake Michigan. The dive boats stop running in a few weeks not so much because of the cold, but because of the winter winds.
As I have been doing for the last few years, I have chartered a boat, put together a group of divers, and pray for calm seas. We will be on the Enterprise out of Waukegan, a town just south of the Wisconsin border half way between Chicago and Milwaukee. It's about my favorite charter boat: a 42 foot, 30 ton steel ship which doubles as a salvage vessel. The captain, Dale Bennett, is a TDI tech diving instructor, and what he doesn't know about wreck diving in lake Michigan isn't worth knowing.
Right now I have two worries: the weather and how much my wife will spend. We're staying right next to the area's biggest shopping center and she's meeting up with her college roommates for a shopping expedition. Yikes!!!
Dive report to follow.
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10-11-2007, 02:12 PM
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That's why I could never live up North. We have trips scheduled for October, November and January. Of course, it's N FL Springs trips and no wreck diving, but it's still blowing some bubbles and swiming with Manatees (The January trip).
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10-11-2007, 02:22 PM
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We actually have close to year-round diving in quarries and smaller lakes, if you don't mind your gear freezing in the air and a little frostbite. 
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10-11-2007, 10:51 PM
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Your wife in the stores?! That's why diving is so expensive!
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10-11-2007, 11:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: US near the east coast
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Too bad your dive season is so close to ending. How many did you log this year?
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10-11-2007, 11:29 PM
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Originally Posted by glynneco  Your wife in the stores?! That's why diving is so expensive! | ...Not to mention me at Dive Rite Express, Tech Diving Limited, LiesurePro, the LDS, eBay, the guy at the quarry............
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10-11-2007, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Dragon Too bad your dive season is so close to ending. How many did you log this year? | Don't know, about 40-50 so far. It just ends on the big lake, not quarries and such. And I'm doing a week in the Keys in December. If you have a drysuit and plane fare, the season never ends!
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10-12-2007, 01:27 AM
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Originally Posted by MgicTwnger We actually have close to year-round diving in quarries and smaller lakes, if you don't mind your gear freezing in the air and a little frostbite. | Yeah, I know about COLD weather diving. I dove at Morrison last January and when we got out of the 68 degree water, we had to deal with 51 degree weather. BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR..  | |
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10-12-2007, 01:39 AM
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You call that cold? Check out the pics I just posted from Mermet Springs last Feb. in the Divers section. What a manly bunch of idiots!
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10-12-2007, 12:21 PM
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LOL!! I know I don't know what REAL cold weather and water is. And, you know what, I'm fine with that. I'm a true born and bred Southern Boy. I HATE cold weather. That's why, when I got out of the military (the first time) I moved back down South, where the women are hot, the men are men and cow tipping is an acceptable Saturday Night date. | |
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