2 newly minted cave divers with photos :)

This is my first post on this forum as my girlfriend & I have just completed our GUE Cave1 class with Mark Messersmith.
We've spent a couple of days diving the Peacock caves just to get comfortable.
2 Weeks ago my girlfriend Kelly thought she'd never be able to dive inside a cave but now she's hooked :)
Here are a few photos....

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ttunnelout.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Feb/Kelly3.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Feb/Kelly2.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Feb/Kelly1.jpg

Congrats to both of you!!!!!! The photos are amazing! Welcome to the forum, now get your girlfriend on here as well and start posting up a storm!

Welcome to the dark side.

Congratulations to you and your girlfriend on your cave certification!!

The pictures are stunning, thank you for posting them.

Congrats to both of you!!! Thanks for sharing the pics.

Congrats again, it was great meeting you two on Saturday!

Congrats!

Congrats! Welcome to the dark side of diving, it's all about the cookies.

Congrats! Nice pics...Peanut Tunnel is one of my favs.

Congrats, Mark seems like a super cool guy, bet it was a fun class.

Congrats and nice pics!

Its funny my wife said the same thing. "You wont ever catch me diving in a cave" Now she loves it. Starting to plan our next trip in April. Congrats to both of you..

Nice quiet day at Ginnie today, we dove with Claudia Milz and suckered her into running the reel in for us....:)

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...eb/Ginnie1.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ie6Keyhole.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...innie2lips.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...5tablerock.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...eb/Ginnie7.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...nie4eyesky.jpg

Beautiful pictures. I'm new to diving, am so excited and afraid I'm hooked. I've done some caverns and know it's not enough.

Great photos, Sheardo! Good job in conning Claudia into running the reel ;)

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Originally Posted by CindyLou777

Beautiful pictures. I'm new to diving, am so excited and afraid I'm hooked. I've done some caverns and know it's not enough.

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CindyLou, welcome! There's no cure, only more and more sickness :D Enjoy!

Shirley

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Originally Posted by sskasser

CindyLou, welcome! There's no cure, only more and more sickness :D Enjoy!

Shirley

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Cure? Sickness? I feel perfectly healthy. :) Embrace the "sickness". I don't want any cure.

Dove little river today, Kelly wanted the day off so I dove with Claudia Milz

I really enjoyed this cave....

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ttleRiver1.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ttleRiver3.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ttleRiver4.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ttleRiver5.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...ttleRiver6.jpg

Nice. Little River is one of my favorites.

Dave, these really are some of the nicest Florida cave pictures I've ever seen. Almost makes me want to go back and try diving there again :)

Awesome pics.... you look to be an asset to the cave photog community and for that matter community at large! If you have another day off hit the harper tunnel at least as far as you can before it gets too hairy.... there are some beautiful clay banks back there.

David and Kelly, it was a pleasure meeting the two of you at Peacock Sat. I was with ArticMike and Trey. The pictures look better and better each time. How about PM'ing the one you took at Peanut of us. Take care and look forward to seeing your guys again and more of your camera work.

Dove Telford Cave today, it requires a swim up river to get to the entrance to the cave. I don't think this cave is dove as much, darker and much more silt.
We were just about to drift back down the river after the dive when someone pointed out a GATOR in the river. You've never seen 3 people in 130's get out of the water faster....

Some photos from today

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...b/Telford2.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...b/Telford3.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...b/Telford4.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...b/Telford5.jpg

Telford is an awesome dive.

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Originally Posted by TONY CHANEY

David and Kelly, it was a pleasure meeting the two of you at Peacock Sat. I was with ArticMike and Trey. The pictures look better and better each time. How about PM'ing the one you took at Peanut of us. Take care and look forward to seeing your guys again and more of your camera work.

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This is all I have Tony, glad you got hold of me......

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Feb/3guys1.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Feb/3guys4.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Feb/3guys2.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Feb/3guys3.jpg

I need an underwater camera...I literally have no pics whatsoever of me caving

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Originally Posted by CaveMD

I need an underwater camera...I literally have no pics whatsoever of me caving

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You have at least one, but i guess you mean inside the cave :-D

What a difference a huge light makes. I dont remember any of the caves looking like that. But I'm also only seeing a small beam at time.

Thanks David. In the second picture of us, well me, I did not even know that you took it. I had my eyes closed practicing lights out drill. Thanks again, Tony

Some cool photos here! :smile:

However, I still feel that dragging a camera in the cave right after completing class might not be such a great idea.

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Originally Posted by NEON

Some cool photos here! :smile:

However, I still feel that dragging a camera in the cave right after completing class might not be such a great idea.

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IMHO he did it well...I saw him and Kelly and you should see how long the light arms are.

Nice pictures, Dave.

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Originally Posted by CaveMD

I need an underwater camera...I literally have no pics whatsoever of me caving

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No, your buddy needs an underwater camera. I have one and only have 2 pictures of myself, both self portraits.

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Originally Posted by Ben M

Nice pictures, Dave.



No, your buddy needs an underwater camera. I have one and only have 2 pictures of myself, both self portraits.

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I rarely have a buddy, but when I do I can hand it to him and say "take picture" :D

Nice shots (again). :p


Sent from my Intergalactic iPhone

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Originally Posted by Ben M

Nice pictures, Dave.



No, your buddy needs an underwater camera. I have one and only have 2 pictures of myself, both self portraits.

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I will take pictures of you next month but I can assure you they won't be as nice as these :)

We're already back home but thought we'd post the pics from our last dive in Florida. We debated on which cave to do before heading home and landed on Little River. I didn't do this one earlier in the week, but loved the pics that Dave took of the cave and Claudia, so I was pretty excited. What a gorgeous cave. We passed one "T" and had to turn the dive at the 2nd "T". We needed to anyway due to NDL limits, but this cave made me start thinking about cave 2! I wanted to see more.

Anyway, Dave wore the slave light this time.

Tying in at the the entrance
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...rKellyreel.jpg

When we got to the 2nd "T" we saw a cookie on the line. Turns out it belongs to a friend of ours from the States... we left it there.
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Davecookie.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Riverdave2.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Riverdave1.jpg

Dave bringing the line back up
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Riverdave4.jpg

Never get tired of these silhouette photos
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e3...Riverdave5.jpg