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Jan 25, 2007 Crysatal River 05:26 -1M Enc - 43MB -256k Enc - 13MB -MPEG4 Enc - 36MB 15fps -MPEG4 Enc - 63MB - 30fps	Yes, It's diving with manatees at 3 Sisters in January in Florida! It was officially awesome! Becky put a midweek (I guess 1 of the bonus of being unEmployed) dive trip and everything seemed to be pointing towards a "this will suck" adventure... I always tease her about.... Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take a 6 minute break and enjoy!
Oct , 2006 WPB - 02:08 -1M Enc - 17MB -256k Enc - 4MB	this is why we dive WPB... e-ticket at Disney for sure. We're off to the NW Double Canyons to try and see if we can see some sharks - and sharks we do see! There are only 4 divers this morning and life is good. There are scattered clouds, but the sun is doing it's best to peak through We drop down and the DM motions for us to come over to big ledge... Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take a 6 minute break and enjoy!
July 15~22, 2006 Bonaire 06:45 -1M Enc - 54MB -256k Enc - 16MB -56k Enc - 34MB -384 Enc - 77MB -MPEG4 Enc - 55MB	back in Bonaire! Schweet.... When all's said and done - you just can't beat it with a stick. The price was so good, we HAD to go back to Bonaire. This time around we're staying up in Laogen Hill House.... 3 house.... Ohio (Staci & Wes), California (Chris, Nancy and Mel) and humble little Florida (Dawn, Sandy, JohneeD and myself). The price was even better than staying at Buddy Dive with all the perks! We got in on Friday evening around 8:00PM... Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take a 6 minute break and enjoy!
June 1~4, 2006 Dry Tortugas TopSide 06:45 -1M Enc - 54MB -256k Enc - 16MB	another glorious cruise on the Ultimate Getaway - this one was as good as the original. until I update you can check out the original here..... Caught a full circle rainbow - certainly a good sign. Oh yea, I guess the Florida Patrol doesn't have to go slow in a Manatee NO WAKE zone... film at 11:00 15 dives in 2-1/2 days is awesome. Great bunch folks to dive them with..... dream come true. JohneeD, Duke and Catherine were along for... Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take a 6 minute break and enjoy!
June 1~4, 2006 Dry Tortugas Ultimate Rock 03:48 -1M Enc - 32MB -256k Enc - 13MB	utimate rock - well I'll be danged.... now that I go back and read the last time I was here - it's all coming back to me... even the original 'structure' I mentioned in the original post and the mysterious purple reef fish! Doing video on this dive so I knew I wasn't gonna be the best dive buddy, but I wanted to be as good as I could be. Dropped down from the boat and eased over to the structure - everybody was going left so WE went right. I didn't want to be in everybody swirl. Sure 'nuff.... about 1/2 way through the dive we passed everybody... that's how we knew we were 1/2 way round the structure.... and sure 'nuff when we passed everybody I figured we were back at the beginning... schweet - looked out on the sand and there was the shadow of the boat! Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take a 3 minute break and enjoy!
June 1~4, 2006 Dry Tortugas Ultimeate Pinnacle 05:36 -1M Enc - 44MB -256k Enc - 11MB	ultimate Pinnacle - wonderful dive.... simply wonderful. Doing video on this dive and the amount of life in this pinnacle almost rivals some Pacific areas.... the free roaming French Grunts and Blueheaded Wrasse... - gorgeous. Around the first bend found a nice Scorpionfish and a Sharptailed eel. Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take a 5 minute break and enjoy!
June 1~4, 2006 Dry Tortugas Alice in Wonderland 06:23 -1M Enc - 51MB -256k Enc - 15MB	alice in Wonderland - this the magical mushroom plates site. I guess it's a standard on the trips and it never disappoints, A drift dive this time which makes it real nice to just kinda cruise and go. Same as last time and the last last time with all kinds of curious grouper and a most curious Dog Snapper - which is really a surprise. About 3/4 of the way through the dive the group did a split and I decided to stay with the majority... which was quite a hoot during the safety stop... in fact most of the video is about the safety stop... everybody being goofy! Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take a 6 minute break and enjoy!
June 1~4, 2006 Dry Tortugas L-Tower 05:18 -1M Enc - 43MB -256k Enc - 12MB	Dry Tortugas - absolutely gorgeous - yadda yadda yadda Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take a 5 minute break and enjoy!
April 14, 2006 Crystal River Three Sisters 06:45 -1M Enc - 54MB -256k Enc - 10MB	3 beautiful sisters! Finally got to see the sight where the "BE THE CREATURE - Manatee" folks filmed their footage for the Animal Planet show. I'd seen their show and was like 'WOW' - that is some beautiful clear water they;re in and I certainly hadn't see that VIZ over at Kings Spring. The unmistakeable entrance to the 3 Sisters is unforgettable. You go down a long 'arm' of the Crystal River and come to a small opening in the trees... There are a couple of posts that lead off a 100' very shallow run that leads into a large area (about the size of baseball infield) that contain the 3 Sisters. Unfortunately, I was being tooo polite and as the rest of the class headed on in, I paused and a group of fanatical snorkelers with about $500 of bright new shiney Scuba Pro Twin Jets fins got in ahead of me.... oy vay.... Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take a 6 minute break and enjoy!
April 14, 2006 Crystal River Three Sisters 05:50 -1M Enc - 46MB -256k Enc - 11MB	We all jump in and head for last 'sighting'. VIZ is pretty bad... now the newbies know what the Gulf looks like most of the time. Since we don't see any manatees we head over to the King Spring opening. There's a nice school of mangrove snappers hanging around one of the entrances. Poked around a bit and after a while I bumped into Becky... guess where she was? yup.... in the hole... she waved me in and away I go.... she knows I'm not much for the the whole 'overhead' gimik, but since she's waving me in I figure it must be pretty big.... Sure 'nuff... lots of room in the initial passage. whew... coming around and out of the 'mini' loop we come to the exit and so sollie... it's nowhere near as gorgeous as Blue Grotto - but it is pretty cool. Come on up and head out of the spring basin and low and behold - MANATEES!!!! a whole freakin' flock of them! OMG... this is so cool. 5 or 6 of them head off into the gloom, but one of them decides to slow down... take a breath... and proceeds to take a nap! Talk about a photo... Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take a 6 minute break and enjoy!
March 04, 2006 Manatee Springs - 03:50 -1M Enc 34MB -256k Enc 10MB	Manatee Springs - Cheifland FL - Only video of Manatee Springs; my camera was misbehaving so there's no footage of Catfish Hotel - yet..... i'll be back for sure to get some of that magic place as well. I'm trying something new with a bit of dramatic B&W usage.... hope you like it! Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take an 4 minute break and enjoy!
Dec 04, 2005 Ginnie Springs - Devil's System - 08:25 -1M Enc 81MB -256k Enc 34MB	Ginnie Springs - High Springs, FL. - Back in the Springs.... tough getting video with the sun so low, but.... fun none-the-less. Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk. Read the whole account here....Take an 8 minute break and enjoy
Oct 01, 2005 Devil's System - 05:27 MS Encoded -1M Enc 54MB -256k Enc 23MB PPro 1.5 -1024k Enc 45MB -512k Enc 21MB -256k Enc 10MB	Devi'ls System - Ginnie Springs - High Springs, FL. - I wish I had taken the XL1 into the Ginnie System, but alas I only got footage in the Devil's System - The Santa Fe was on top of the Devil's Ear - You gotta love the blending of the tannic tea coloured water with the crystal clear outflow from the system. Read the whole account here....Take a 5 minute break and enjoy Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk.
July, 2005 Bonaire 5:27 - HIGHLIGHTS 1M MSenc - 54MB - 320x240 - HIGHLIGHTS 256Kb MSenc - 23MB - 160x120	DIVERS PARADISE.... says so right on their license plates.... and they're not kidding. Trying a new format of showing the highlights of a trip, this is 5:29 of hard cuts, short clips and a lot of fun. The size is a bit big, but it's in 640x480 instead of the 320x240 of the rest of the clips on this page, but then, with just everybody having a good Internet connection, it shouldn't be too bad. Dial up users.... so sorry. Now you have the choice of how long you want to wait for YOUR video. Choose the file size you want but these file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk.
March, 2005 - MiddleFish 4:37 1M MSenc - 37MB	we're back - and this spot don't disappoint. This will be my first time using my new video camera. Water is still freakin' freezin'. Dropped right down on a little hole where a 'smallee' Red Grouper was poking around. Snoogled around a couple of corners and found a nice Toadfish hiding out in the ledge Read the whole account here....Take a 4 minute break and enjoy! These file(s) weren't encoded for streaming, so RIGHT CLICK and SAVE AS to your Hard Disk.
Nov 26, 2004 Key Largo - HIGHLIGHTS 11MB - 06:03	When it rains it pours.... was just here 2 weeks ago.... Trying a new format of inserting my dive buddies pictures in the video.... that's fun. City of Washington has the best shots I've ever gotten of a parrotfish.... He's a bit beat up... maybe that's the reason he was nice and still. Trying out my UK LightCannon HIDS on the Spiegel Grove.... yetch.... doesn't seem to be worth the effort. Benwood was nice and so was SPIKE, but Snapper Alley will HAVE to go down as one of the best dives of my life. Great footage of me 'being' a grunt..... I was able to drift right into the the middle of the school - totally awesome! Trying a new 4 QUAD format for highligts... a bit busy, but a good learning experience.
	City Of Washington wreck	15M WMV	07:46
	Spiegel Grove	11M WMV	05:44
	Benwood Wreck	14M WMV	07:07
	Pillars	19M WMV	09:59
	Snapper Alley	18M WMV	09:20
	SPIKE	14M WMV	07:36
Nov 11, 2004 Key Largo - HIGHLIGHTS 9MB - 05:00	No Hurricane Worries Here. Great to be back in the Keys again. It's been way too long. VIZ was awesome. Some footage of my Favourite dive in all of Key Largo - "CIVIL WAR WRECK". The USCG dive was a lesson in the power of Mother Nature. Trying a new 4 QUAD format for highligts... a bit busy, but a good learning experience.
	Civil War Wreck	17M WMV	09:26
	City of Washington Wreck	13M WMV	06:52
	Anchor Chain	19M WMV	09:57
	USCG Duane	13M WMV	06:06
	Molasse Reef - Fire Coral Cave	11M WMV	05:44
Oct 13, 2004 Gulf of Mexico - HIGHLIGHTS 4MB - 02:00	Great to be back in the Water. Too bad the water really didn't care that we were there. The VIZ sucked, but had fun none the less. The first video has the standard contingent of tug Orange Goliath Groupers a great shot of a Cobia. The sweet spot on the video is the awesome jellyfish with it's armada of little fishee's and then a very cool anemone on the bow; but the highlight has to be the barracuda farting (yes, farting) at the very end. The second video is mostly, well, artsy~fartsy. The reason is is because there was only about 3 minutes of usable footage. You see; the dang camera broke free while I was hanging on the anchor line waiting for my dive buddy and proceeded to sink 70' to the bottom. So there is about 25 minutes of footage of it sitting on the bottom waiting for me to find it! To add insult to injury; I had mashed the FULL ZOOM button so for the next 5 minutes as I headed up for my safety stop everything was out of focus; I was too preoccupied with heading up until a massive school of Amberjacks swam right by me that I even bothered looking through the viewfinder. Did get some nice footage of another one of the those viciously cool jellyfish.
	tug Orange - Jellies   RDV [Readers Digest Version] - 1/2 Length	9M WMV	05:05
	BlackThorn - secret life of a video camera	7M WMV	03:54
June 12, 2004 WEST PALM	Great to be back on the East Coast. "Dusk - The Corridor" is my favourite; it was very cool doing this series of shipwrecks at dusk. At first we thought it would be a bit lame, but the dim light made all the wrecks seem delightfully ghostly. It was also great as I guess this location is an overnight hotel for turtles; by the end of the dive it seems the wreck is literally infested w/turtles!
	Dusk - The Corridor   RDV [Readers Digest Version] - 1/2 Length	13M WMV	06:52
	Dusk - The Corridor	25M WMV	12:41
	Night - 60' PO'C	8M WMV	03:54
	Flower Gardens   RDV [Readers Digest Version] - 1/2 Length	12M WMV	06:31
	Flower Gardens	22M WMV	11:30
	Tear Drop   RDV [Readers Digest Version] - 1/2 Length	15M WMV	08:02
	Tear Drop	27M WMV	13:56
May 29, 2004 TUG SHERIDAN	What an awesome dive - read the whole description here. It really was like 2 dives in 1 dive. The bow was so covered in bait it was like a night dive, the stern was a gorgeous day dive! I broke the video up accordingly. There was so much footage the original cut was almost 20 minutes long. I was able to break that down to the RDV version to 10 minutes, but that was still a bit long; so I broke out the big hammer and cut it down to an acceptable 5 minutes.
	Tug Sheridan - NIGHT     HighLights	10M WMV	05:25
	Tug Sheridan - NIGHT   RDV [Readers Digest Version] - 1/2 Length	21M WMV	11:36
	Tug Sheridan - NIGHT	36M WMV	19:46
	Tug Sheridan - DAY     HighLights	10M WMV	05:11
	Tug Sheridan - DAY   RDV [Readers Digest Version] - 1/2 Length	17M WMV	08:51
	Tug Sheridan - DAY	37M WMV	19:19
May 21~23, 2004	Drifting the Dry Tortugas on the Live Aboard "Ultimate Getaway" - Viz was way down and the current kept us from visiting the gorgeous pinnacles that honour this spot.
	dry Tortugas	29M WMV	me
March 28, 2004	Bored with no new footage I've been playing with a bit of footage I had hanging around
	Gulf of Mexico Commercial        Why we dive in the Gulf         RDV [Readers Digest Version] - 1/2 Length	5M WMV	me
	Gulf of Mexico Commercial        Why we dive in the Gulf	10M WMV	me
Tug Orange March 28, 2004	Back on the Tug Orange. Some great shots of schools of Goliath Groupers and a bonus 'ride' in a bait ball being whacked by Bonita's.
	Tug Orange - Pinellas Reef - Gulf of Mexico        REDUX         RDV [Readers Digest Version] - 1/2 Length	10M WMV	me
	Tug Orange - Pinellas Reef - Gulf of Mexico        REDUX	21M WMV	me
Pinellas South Reef March 28, 2004	Standard Gulf rubble, but SKI does get dinner for the night!
	Pinellas South Reef - Gulf of Mexico	20M WMV	me
	Pinellas South Reef - Gulf of Mexico         RDV [Readers Digest Version] - 1/2 Length	10M WMV	me
Tug Orange March 6, 2004	Broke this video into 2 distinct movies. 1 highlighting DOC and 1 highlighting just the critters on the Tug. It's truly amazing the number Golaith Groupers that call this little tug home.
	Tug Orange - Pinellas Reef - Gulf of Mexico        DOC on the Tug	393M MPG2	me
	Tug Orange - Pinellas Reef - Gulf of Mexico        DOC on the Tug	16M WMV	me
	Tug Orange - Pinellas Reef - Gulf of Mexico        Just the Critters on the Tug	12M WMV	me
Jupiter, FL February 1, 2004	Cloudy, rainy, choppy seas, small boat.... but we're here, so lets give it a go!
	Jupiter, FL	7M WMV	me
Spiegel Grove October 11, 2003	First time down with the video camera.... gotta start somewhere!
	Spiegel Grove	15M WMV	me
	Key Largo - French Reef - "L"	15M WMV	me