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About Me

Miss you Jo The Blues I'm in Pensacola working in the ER at Sacred Heart as always, and teaching SCUBA Diving at MBT Divers. I'm working on getting in to Medical School, but who knows. Maybe. Right now I'm just enjoying having some free time and getting to dive a whole lot. I have two passions, Emergency Medicine and SCUBA Diving. I have been doing both for a long time. I have been diving since I was 10 years old. I have no idea how many dives that I have made. I think I logged about 70 dives before I got tired of it. I have been diving for 15 years, and working as a Divemaster on charter boats for a couple of years, but I just recently decided that I wanted to teach. I got my instructors certification last year through NAUI, and have been teaching ever since. I love it. This is my fun job. I get to dive all of the time now, and I found a way to get paid to do it. You can't beat that. My real job is working in the ER at Sacred Heart Hospital. I started volunteering in an ER when I was 16 and have never left. I have worked off and on in three different ER's over the last 9 years.

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Anybody that wants to dive. For more information on learning how to dive check out this page. http://www.mbtdivers.com/Instruction/instruction.htm USS Oriskany One Year Memorial USS Oriskany March 25, 2007 USS Oriskany Promotional Video SCUBA Diving the San Pablo in Pensacola Florida

My Blog

Pensacola Has Turned into South Central LA

Yesterday (Tuesday October 2, 2007) my 20 year old little sister was car jacked. She was helping a friend move into a house on South Davis Highway. She had borrowed my father's truck to help with the ...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 23:16:00 GMT

July 20 Morrison Springs Report

The advanced class went out to Morrison Springs yesterday to work on some search and recovery and navigation skills. The river level had dropped the day before from 5ft to 2ft so the viz was not as go...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:03:00 GMT

Big Hammerhead and Bull Shark dives

This is a post a buddy of mine posted from a message board that I am a member of about our last spearfishing trip. My reply to the post follows it. The names are their screen names on the me...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:33:00 GMT

Pete Tide II, Heron, and Navy Barge and Camell July 12

On Thursday, a couple of students from the Advanced Class and I charted Kevin Trussler (isearall) and the Holy Spear-it. Let me start by saying that Kevin went above and beyond to make sure that our c...
Posted by on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 16:29:00 GMT

The coolest dive I think I've ever done...Night Diving the O

So we dove the Oriskany Sunday night, and it's taken me this long to post it because it has taken me this long to process the experience. It was one of those things that you do, and then you take a st...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:11:00 GMT

The H2O Below and MBT on NBC Nightly News

The charter boat H2O Below, and MBT appeared on NBC Nightly News this week. This is pretty cool. The Oriskany is making national news. Pensacola is finally gaining some national notariety for it's div...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:59:00 GMT

7.2 ft

Well, the dominant wave height in the gulf is currently 7.2ft per the NOAA buoy 42039. This sucks. I haven't been able to get out and do any real diving in the last two weeks. I'm getting land sick. I...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 15:00:00 GMT

Fishing in Lafitte, Louisiana

I just got home from our fishing trip to Lafitte, Louisian. My dad, ,my uncle Cecil, and I packed up this weekend and headed down to Lafitte to catch some specs and reds. Man we had a great time. We g...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 05:35:00 GMT

Weekend Dive Report May 5 and 6

I took the class to the beach on Saturday, and heard from another instructor that the current and viz were terrible so we went over to the sound just to knock out some skills in the sand. The water wa...
Posted by on Mon, 07 May 2007 12:34:00 GMT

Oriskany April 29, 2007

We dove the Oriskany yesterday as part of the Advanced Nitrox/Stage Decompression course. The water was nice it had warmed up to around 71 on the surface and 68 at depth. The viz was about 50-60ft. We...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:23:00 GMT