SCUBA NERD

Ok I know it has been a while since i last posted.... and I should be in bed asleep right now. But I think sleeping is for sissy's.

I was looking through some of my pictures that we took last year during Christmas and couldn't help but post some of them.

Scuba diving is probably my favorite "sport". Everything about it just brings me joy and brings back such good memories.

Last Christmas Break my dad and a couple of his buddies decided that they wanted to go dive some hot springs outside of St.Johns. Well there is a myth going around among the SJ people that all six of Dukes Hot Springs are bottomless. So that was the idea was to see if this was true.

Of course many safety issues come up when planning this lil adventure. When diving a new spot you want to make sure everything is fine and dandy. The first plan of action was to see how deep each of the six springs were and to see if any of them had a current. After finding that they each did have a bottom, the deepest one (15ft) was found for the first exploratory dive. There was much excitement as my dad (that handsome fellow in the picture above) took the safety line and made the short descend down. It turns out that everything look good so his other dive buddies joined him.

At the end of the first dive excitement had dwindled down in the discovery of a "mud hole." As each of the brave divers exited, Jason the last to get out discovered that when he went to pull himself out that there was no wall below his waist. Excitement again struck these noble "explorers". Once again Jason and my dad descended into the dark muddy waters.

Jason and Dad said they slowly moved into the mouth of the cave. The visibility was about 3 feet and Jason was in front. Stalagmites and stalactites could be seen on the walls of the dark watery hole. It was established before hand that they were to just confirm that this hole in the wall was indeed a cave and then go no further. They only were through the opening when their fin kicks had stirred up the suet. They both had many fears and thoughts of regret as they handled the situation. Each were armed with a dive light and the physics of air bubbles. They found their way to the surface quickly and told us what they had found.

That is how our exciting December day ended.

This is an eagle eye view of three of them. The one that they dove is behind the tree, to the right(it was pretty small)

The bros and I. Best Buds forever.

Here is Alec standing by one of the springs.

This Pic isn't very good but this is spencer and sean playing in the bigger one. The white stuff is snow.