Written by Bob Diaz
| Published on Mon Jul 26, 2010
This year at The Blue Wild I was fortunate enough to meet Mike Hickey. I know of Mike from his appearances on Speargun Hunter on the Outdoor Channel with Sheri Daye. Mike was orginally a guest on the show and in later seasons participated as an underwater videographer. Mike is the USA distributor for FreeDivers (FreeDivers USA) spearfishing equipment....
Written by Bob Diaz
| Published on Sat Jan 30, 2010
It didn't take me long to finish rigging up the 120 with a new reel and 2.2mm dyneema line. Unfortunately as of now (Apr 2009), I haven't had an opportunity to get into the blue water to put this new toy through its paces. I am definitely jones'ing to give it a try! I am also working on making my...
Written by Bob Diaz
| Published on Mon Jun 7, 2010
This past weekend, I finally got to go to The Blue Wild dive expo. After 3 years of everybody telling me about it and not being around to get to go to it, the stars finally aligned and I was able to check it out. Unfortunately, it meant missing out on 5-10mph winds and less than 1' seas inside the...
Written by Bob Diaz
| Published on Tue Mar 30, 2010
Over the weekend of March 27th & 28th I took the Level 1 Freediving course offered by FII (Freediving Instructors International) at their Headquarters in Pompano Beach FL. FII was started by Martin Stepanek, a multiple time freediving world record holder. The Level 1 curriculum is taught over a 2 day course. The first day is classroom and pool based and...
Written by Bob Diaz
| Published on Thu Sep 1, 2011
Seas:
1-3 feet (Sat-Thu)
2-4 feet (Fri-Sat)
Winds:
5-10 S/SW
10-15 S/SW
Viz:
5-20 feet
40 feet
Temp:
85 F
jellyfish jellyfish squish squish squish
oh if i were to be granted just one wish
that currents were weak and water was warm
so you and your friends to florida wouldn't swarm
You snuck up...
Written by Bob Diaz
| Published on Thu May 23, 2019
Some things are just worth doing again and again. For us, that thing is our annual Pirate Trip to Grand Cay. For 4 years now, we've been lucky enough to be able to pull off epic annual trips to the...
Written by Bob Diaz
| Published on Sun Jan 4, 2015
The text from my friend Carlos Casal comes in the day after Christmas with two simple words... "Bimini Saturday?" (there may have been more words, but those stood out) and all of a sudden I feel like it's Christmas all over...
Written by Bob Diaz
| Published on Tue May 21, 2013
Seas:
2-4'
Winds:
10-20 ESE
Viz:
20-45'
Temp:
78F
It was a little upsetting for me to realize as I sat down to compose this week's blog that I hadn't even gotten around to composing my usual "Foreward" blog at the beginning of this year. It was even...