Precision Diving

This past weekend was the 2010 Our World Underwater scuba diving show in the Chicago area. This show and expo is the biggest in the mid-west. Normally I do not go to the show as it has become more of a social event rather than a trade show. But Ben McGeever of Dive Xtras was bringing the X-Scooter to the show, so I asked if he needed any help staffing the booth. So I volunteered a day to help him out. (more…)

As October approached, I knew that our days to get on Lake Michigan were numbered. Rob and Dave called me up and said they wanted to get one more big dive on Lake Michigan before the weather completely shuts us down for the year. I haven’t had a chance to dive with Rob and Dave much this year. All of us have had the usual stuff creep up in our lives and our schedules would never line up. We looked at a couple charters still going out this time of the year and saw that Shipwreck Explorers operated by Captain Jitka had an opening for a two tech dive day. We booked it. (more…)

This article was found on the Sun Times News Group. I thought it was worth posting here. Here is the link to the article, Movie Explores WWII Sub Found 60 Years Later.

By J.T. MORAND

For most of John Kenney’s life he’s heard a story about his grandfather William Mabin that had no ending.

He shared this experience with the families of the 86-member crew of the USS Lagarto, a submarine that disappeared in the Gulf of Thailand in 1945, just three months before World War II ended. He heard the story from his mother, Nancy Mabin Kenney, who was just a baby when the submarine and her father, a signalman from La Grange, vanished. (more…)

On May 17, 2008 my buddy Hunter Lacey visited us here in paradise valley. Hunter is from Montana and I assume they don’t have many shipwrecks. I got to take him out for his very first Great Lakes dive. We did two dives on the SS Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin is the best shipwrecks in the Chicago area, in my opinion. At 130 feet and a balmy 40F bottom temp, it is an aggressive dive. We had an amazing 50+ feet of visibility and flat lake conditions. We couldn’t have a better day for diving. (more…)

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