I recently had the opportunity to dive Mammoth Scuba Park (map, photos) in Clute, TX. The dive park is located behind a Hydrosports Scuba shop (a full service dive shop that includes air fills and rental gear) and is an abandoned clay pit. The pit is (has) filled due to the water table in the area. The owners are going to great lengths to make the park as nice as possible including placing many items of interest in the lake, taking steps to improve visibility as much as possible and populating the lake with flora and fauna.

I’ve added a couple of surface shots from my recent trip to Florida for Narcosis Management class. I’ve also added several swing dancing photos from the Harvest Moon Ball held at Rice in October..

PSAI released their new Cavern Diver manual at Dema in Orlando featuring one of my photos as the cover. I’ve added a digital of it to my Tear Sheet album.

It looks like I will finally be able to do my PSAI narcosis management. A friend of mine (Carl Griffing) will be teaching me levels 1 through 3 at lake Travis and then if nothing changes, I will be taking level 4, 5 and possibly (psychology and physiology allowing) 6 with the legendary Hal Watts (deep air world record holder) at 40 Fathoms Grotto in Ocala Florida.

This past weekend (well Saturday anyway), Darin and I went to Travis for some good old lake diving. The past year and half have been some what difficult in terms of diving at Travis. First the lake is 40+ feet low, then in the course of less than 3 months it transitioned to flooding conditions with the lake closed for several weeks.