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// June 21st, 2010 // No Comments » // USA Dive Guide
John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York City’s leading aviation hub, is the departure point for many Northeast divers winging their way to tropical dive destinations. As they jet toward dream vacations, many are unaware that a minute into their flights, they are passing directly above a great local beach dive.
// June 21st, 2010 // 1 Comment » // USA Dive Guide
Jutting into New York’s Shinnecock Bay, Long Island and Fire Island reach toward each other with outstretched fingers of sand. Blasted by storms and tides, only the hardiest of scrub brush survive on these spits the native Algonquin Indians called Pauqu qn auke, or “cleared land.” Early settlers in South Hampton transcribed the word as Ponquogue, and like the natives before, took advantage of the sandy fingers to fish the tidal bay waters gusting between the islands.
// June 21st, 2010 // 1 Comment » // USA Dive Guide
The sun was shining and the water was clear. My dive buddy and I were riding the current at a good clip and all was right with the world. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a glint, like sunlight off metal. The long, silvery body hovered in the water about 10 feet from us. The mouth was downturned into a perpetual frown and the eyes stared at us. If we turned, it turned. If we slowed, it slowed. It just waited. Watching. It gave me the creeps. Biggest darned barracuda I’d ever seen.
// June 21st, 2010 // 2 Comments » // USA Dive Guide
Whitecaps were whipping against the shores of Lake George and the sky was slightly overcast, but 45 feet below the surface the cool lake felt as calm as water in a well. I was weaving through the narrow crevices of rock known as Basin Bay Wall. Schools of fluorescent green bass and blue gills guided me through a labyrinth of granite, occasionally stopping to look for small crayfish, mussels and other food that lined the lake’s floor.
// June 21st, 2010 // 1 Comment » // USA Dive Guide
With the bright lights of the Cyclone, Wonder Wheel and Nathan’s Famous Hot Dogs as its backdrop, Coney Island seems an unlikely place to go diving. But local enthusiasts will tell you, with a note of Brooklyn pride, that there’s more action below water than above it.
// June 21st, 2010 // 2 Comments » // USA Dive Guide
Eat, sleep, dive. What could be better than the routine of live-aboard diving? Maximum bottom time, minimum travel time. All the comforts of home, on the reef.
// June 15th, 2010 // No Comments » // USA Dive Guide
The lettering on my door says Spear, Sam Spear and I work a desk: the Travel Desk. Anyway it was just another day sitting sharpening my dive knife – because you just never know – when the door swung open and trouble shuffled in wearing size 6 open-toe fins.
