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    Cool Our Dive on the captain tony with amazing tarpon

    Finally heres one of the videos edited from one of our dives.
    enjoy.
    Chip and Jim are pictured on there Rebreathers.

    if you have the bandwidth select the HD quality.
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    Great video.. how cool are those tarpon good times with the orca dive group.
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    This made me want to get certified even more.
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    Pity I missed this one, great footage
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    Quote Originally Posted by philip_r5 View Post
    This made me want to get certified even more.
    Talk to Chip on Saturday during the meeting.
    I think he's planning to deliver an open water course soon, maybe you can join.
    Good Luck,
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    Excellent job on the video Tucker! It's great that you share our dives with everyone!! We have the pleasure of diving in mother nature's aquarium the way it was meant to be seen.

    I believe the Tarpon were spawning and you captured the rare footage. I couldn't find any other video of Tarpon spawning like that. It was a Tarpon tornado. You can't tell from the video that the Tarpon are 6' - 8' each. There was over 100 in that school.

    That dive was Jim's last Poseidon MK VI rebreather training dive. He got his certification card the following weekend. Congratulations Jim!

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    Quote Originally Posted by philip_r5 View Post
    This made me want to get certified even more.
    How many years have you been talking about getting certified Philip?

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