A winter evening in Alabama

[Harry Babb]

Video from last Thursday night




Sure helps that the pool is heated and at 77 Degrees

hb

[Tony Meola]

Harry

That picture tells me that you are addicted to the Ocean.

[Harry Babb]

Tony.......I do love the water.....rivers, bays and oceans....

The post is actually a short video taken with a Smart Phone......I had trouble posting it......seems that the phone is smarter than I am.......

Headed to Vortex Springs for a checkout dive with 2 of my grandchildren this coming Saturday.


hb

[neil]

Mean while in Jersey were swimming on the lagoon, not in it.

[Carl]

Springs and Quarry dives lose their appeal in very short order.
Kinda like a deep pool dive...you keep checking your pressure guage just hoping you run out of air soon.
Wait for the open water dives! Those are awesome and fly by!

Have fun, be safe.

Carl

[MarkS]

Love the boots Neil! They add to the angel effect!

:)

[Bob H.]

Neil, Junior doesnt have a string of ice fishing traps running down the lagoon? Just like riding a bike Harry, all that diving you did on the Chaperell will come right back to you. BH

[neil]

tomorrow we will
be in aruba so things are ok

[Harry Babb]

Great comback Neil.......good pic.....Down here we call those boot "Bon Secour Reeboks" (Bon Secour is a shrimping/fishing community) or "Bayou la Batre Reeboks"

Please send us some WARM pics from Aruba....

hb

[Rawleigh]

Harry: Around here the white boots are "Tangier Loafer" named after the island in the Bay.

Carl: I still remember that thermocline from my first and only quarry dive 30 years ago! Brrrrr!!!

[Mikey]

Harry,
Double clicked the image in your original post and it went to Photo Bucket and played. Such excitement! I could hardly contain myself.
Now if we could have had some action on Neil's angel . . .
ARUBA! Such bragging on this board, damn!
Have a great trip and at least do what my bro and I do when we travel to the Caribbean on business. At sunset face North, hold your glass up with one hand and give the famous single-finger salute with the other. So satisfying.

[ianupton]

Harry - That is great.

While we were in Indonesia, I got my PADI open water. My 9 year old became completey addicted. Since he was only 9, he could only go to 2 meters and had to be with an instructor at all times. Last trip we made to Gili Trawangan, we did 9 dives.

"His" instructor ended up tethering a float ball to him so he could not submerge further than 2 meters. I spot him a few times completely vertical trying like hell to pull the float underwater.

He could practically train other kids when a 'new' kid came to do the bubble maker course.



Ian.

[Harry Babb]

"His" instructor ended up tethering a float ball to him so he could not submerge further than 2 meters. I spot him a few times completely vertical trying like hell to pull the float underwater.

That's great Ian......and I bet your son has great stories for "Show and Tell" at school.

I was back at the pool again tonight with 2 of my grandsons.....Alan and Ben....they are getting certified. Will be back in the pool again tomorrow AM.....I am gonna try to get a few shots with a GoPro.

I think its good to get these kids involved in good activities at a young age.....builds their self confidence and give them a good healthy way to burn off energy.

Got more pics?? That is a good one that you shared! !

hb

[Carl]

Harry - That is great.

While we were in Indonesia, I got my PADI open water. My 9 year old became completey addicted. Since he was only 9, he could only go to 2 meters and had to be with an instructor at all times. Last trip we made to Gili Trawangan, we did 9 dives.

"His" instructor ended up tethering a float ball to him so he could not submerge further than 2 meters. I spot him a few times completely vertical trying like hell to pull the float underwater.

He could practically train other kids when a 'new' kid came to do the bubble maker course.



Ian.

Ian,
If your stateside again...look into the Explorers Post, a specialized offshoot of the Boy Scouts. I joined a Scuba Post where I was able to get my certification younger then at the dive shop...it was the old NAUI Cert. They had the same instructors as the Dive Shop...but as the group learning was only kids and young teens, the training was way more stringent and safety conscience. Once you were certified...lots of dives...open, beach, muck, Quarry, spring dives and we got to do hardhat dives...great experience.

Great way to make lots of dives

[ianupton]

Harry - I don't have any other pictures handy. Computer still in sea container somewhere.

Carl - I was never an explorer, but an eagle scout all the way. Griffin turns 10 in July so I think we will plan something later in summer.

[Carl]

Ian- Boy Scouts was ok...I got tired of talking about what we were going to do. Planning for what we were going to do and hardly ever doing. Maybe it was just my Troop, but I got board early on.

Explorers, Venturers or the more popular Sea Scouts concentrated on a single purpose and we had opportunity to dive almost weekly at times. I started on a Post Rifle Team, found out about the Diving Post at a year end awards meeting and promptly joined that Post as well. They have Posts for law enforcement, aviation and and...

...but seems like your son is set to go.



Harry- how was the checkout dive?

[Harry Babb]

My 13 year old grandson learning the skill of removing his mask.




Chris (my son in law) and I



Chris (my son) and I



We're getting all practiced up....this was in the pool yesterday.

hb

[Bob H.]

Great pics Harry, brings back some diving memories....The kids know what they are training for? BH

[Harry Babb]

The kids know what they are training for? BH

Yupp! ! ! and very excited....


In the spring we will be going to Australia to satisify the largest item on our Bucket List. This trip has been on our minds for 28 years.....and its now or never.

hb