Cocodrillo push

[t0by]

Come on over will you need a place to stay?

Maybe I could come for a day trip or two?

[sandy]

I signed up yesterday and am now looking at airfare. I live an hour from Tallahassee, two hours from Jax, and 3 hours from Atlanta. Is anyone flying out of any of these airports or others in the area? If so, have you seen any good deals?

I look forward to meeting all of you.

[Arctic Mike]

It looks like I'm joining all of you for this expedition. I'm pretty excited, I look forward to meeting you all in person.

Sandy, I will probably fly out of Atlanta but I didn't see any "deals" last night when I was looking. If you see something, please let me know.

Will we only have AL80 tanks available to us? What is the water temp there in June?

[sandy]

Hey Mike, I have not found any deals yet and may use airline miles. Looks like the cheapest flight I have seen so far is a direct flight on Delta for about 500 that arrives Cozumel at 12:50PM. I am thinking about staying over another two nights for some more cave or ocean diving. I hate to waste Saturday and Sunday while in Cozumel

I understand we will use 80s and that different people may dive wet or dry. I think the water temp is about 77. In the next two months, I hope to rent some 80s in cave country (if possible) and make a few dives wet and dry to check buoyancy, trim, and comfort.

I will be in N Myrtle Beach in 4 1/2 weeks. Let me know if you are in the SE part of NC. Also, let me know next time you are in cave country.

[deepairmike]

Ok we have a pretty full group now. My travel guy said wait a few days to book flight the airlines are up to something strange. I will get a list of parts for people to bring. One thing for sure is about 100 tank o-rings.. 12 large snaps.. I have all the safety regs. Tuned and ready.

[SLIM]

LMAO I have already put an order in for O-rings for the valves. I am even going to redo the Oring station and try to make it more stream lined. Yes I remeber thoses morinings atht he site changing them all out. This time I think I am just going to start doing that once there before others put regs on and we can see if that makes things run smoother.

I will even practice some to see if I can get my times down a few seconds.

Trust me, we WILL be changing out some O-rings, I think last trip out of all the tanks we used maybe only 10% of them did not need to be changed. Hope they dont look at us funny when we donot bring back the same amount of tanks at the end of the day and leave 80% of them in the cave like last time.

Oh that 10% even encludes the ones we used for the day we took off from cave diving to shoot video in the ocean. LOL

SLIM

[Arctic Mike]

Hey Sandy, that's about what I saw as well. I even looked at leaving from Charlotte and Spartanburg but they were even higher. It may end up being a mileage flight I live near Charlotte, in Gastonia, NC (SW). I just spent a few days diving the Cooper River in Charleston. Charles (Murphy, NC) and I are planning a NFL trip for the weekend of April 17. I may be teaching on Friday and Saturday which will leave us only Saturday evening and Sunday for cave diving, but it will be fun. What are you up to that weekend? 77 degrees! No way I can dive dry in that. I have only dove NFL dry a couple of times and it burns me up. It will definitely be a wet suit for me. I dove Coz 8 or 9 years ago but it was all ocean diving. I used a 2 mil shorty for that.

Hey Mike, I have not found any deals yet and may use airline miles. Looks like the cheapest flight I have seen so far is a direct flight on Delta for about 500 that arrives Cozumel at 12:50PM. I am thinking about staying over another two nights for some more cave or ocean diving. I hate to waste Saturday and Sunday while in Cozumel

I understand we will use 80s and that different people may dive wet or dry. I think the water temp is about 77. In the next two months, I hope to rent some 80s in cave country (if possible) and make a few dives wet and dry to check buoyancy, trim, and comfort.

I will be in N Myrtle Beach in 4 1/2 weeks. Let me know if you are in the SE part of NC. Also, let me know next time you are in cave country.

[sandy]

Charles (Murphy, NC) and I are planning a NFL trip for the weekend of April 17. I may be teaching on Friday and Saturday which will leave us only Saturday evening and Sunday for cave diving, but it will be fun. What are you up to that weekend?

That weekend is between my NMB weekend and the NACD Safety Day at Ginnie. Plus, my youngest daughter is in Atlanta for a school choir trip that weekend. If I leave my wife at home alone, I may not be alive for the Cocodrilo trip. But I will let you know if something changes.

[sandy]

LMAO I have already put an order in for O-rings for the valves. I am even going to redo the Oring station and try to make it more stream lined. Yes I remeber thoses morinings atht he site changing them all out. This time I think I am just going to start doing that once there before others put regs on and we can see if that makes things run smoother.

I will even practice some to see if I can get my times down a few seconds.

Trust me, we WILL be changing out some O-rings, I think last trip out of all the tanks we used maybe only 10% of them did not need to be changed. Hope they dont look at us funny when we donot bring back the same amount of tanks at the end of the day and leave 80% of them in the cave like last time.

Oh that 10% even encludes the ones we used for the day we took off from cave diving to shoot video in the ocean. LOL

SLIM

I get the feeling this trip will be fairly educational!

[SLIM]

Sandy

Edjucational,ha ha ha ha ha ROFLMAO ha ha LOL LOL LOL

Yes it will but it will also be a great time to meet others and learn how exploration is done on a tight budget with some awsome explorers and Cave divers that do it for the love of the challange and not for the money or fame.

We are a true die hard exploreres that have all kinds of experiance that we will glady share so that others will not have to go through the pains that we have.

Can't wait to get back in the system and meet you all and hav so much fun doing it.

SLIM