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2007 Total Submersion Dive Festival

(A PADI Diving Society event)

Sunset House in Grand Cayman

April 28th - May 5th, 2007 

Aaaaah, I just love the water..... just throw me off the boat and leave me.... really, it's ok.

I love scuba diving and the Total Sub dive fest in Grand Cayman is always a good time. This year I nearly had to cancel due to work conflicts, but I made it and had the best time, as always. Sunset House is by far the most diver friendly place I've ever known. The dive shop staff were wonderfully friendly & helpful as always. Besides the many wondrous dive sites we visited by boat, Sunset House has great shore diving with a beautiful reef, wrecks and a mermaid statue right off the shore of the hotel. There were about 80 divers this year, split into 5 groups. A fun bunch of people, all of whom came to play and dive with the other scuba folks. We played silly games like musical chairs, pass the grapefruit and had an underwater poker run. The staff at Cathy Church's photo shop saved the day for me and fixed some camera troubles I was having. Thanks to Kat and Lara, my photo of two squids in a courtship display won the Grand Prize for best underwater photo! I think they will be publishing my photo in Sport Diver Magazine later this year!

This was my fourth PADI Dive Society event (third Total Sub at Cayman) and I plan to join them for many more in the future.

If only I could live my life on a perpetual dive vacation!

I am learning & getting better with underwater photos. Below is a sampling:

   Please click on the photos to enlarge

This is my photo that won!

Grouper

Silly Parrotfish

Octopus with a cone shell

Coral Banded shrimp

Stoplight Parrotfish

Turtle

Tarpon

Queen Angel fish

Peterson cleaner shrimps giving me a manicure

Porcupine (puffer) fish

Lobsters like me

Too bad my strobe

did not fire

I had never seen a water spout before!

Dive Buddies!

This  Poor nurse shark was cut by a

propeller and is dying