1000 dives vs. 30 years

[DiverQueen]

Aw Geeze...Does anyone know how deep Bushman's Hole in Africa is?  I think it's 850 or so... ;D

[rcojr]

I was thinking it was more like 950ft.
Bob

[mermaid]

"Bushman's Hole, on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, is one of the strangest places on Earth. It's a prehistoric crater on an otherwise endless track of desert, and for an elite but extreme fraternity of explorers, what happened there is the stuff of myth and legend.

(ABC News)The terrible beauty of the place can't be seen from the air, or even the ground. But if you trace the walls down, you reach a tiny pool covered in algae. Keep going, through a narrow shaft running for another 150 feet, and finally it all opens into a vast freshwater cavern tall enough to hold the Eiffel Tower, and deep enough -- nearly 1,000 feet -- to mesmerize the most experienced, technical cave divers in the world."

Just one of many websites.   

[popolarbear]

im not into  cave diving but that sounds cool enough even for a purely fish fan like myself.

[h2oaddict]

Happy 1,000th Terry!

[mermaid]

Nice pic!!  (am I biased?  maybe a little   )

[h2oaddict]

Funny!

Here's Terry documenting the dive with Novotony.  Ask him about the items in the wheelhouse LOL

[Terry]

                            THANKS LISA! It was indeed, a good adventure. The wreck of the Haliburton off Utila is a cool wreck, upright, intact, easy to penetrate, (easy penetration is, always good) with a skeleton of a whaleshark off its starboard beam and a skeleton of a dolphin off its bow. In cruising thru the wheelhouse, attached to the wheel are an interesting spectrum of finds, multiple gals thong panties, picture of Christ with the saying on it, "Jesus was a pirate" dont recall ever learning that in religion classes as a kid :-\ head of a plastic doll, legs of a plastic doll, guys swim trunks, some beads, and a variety of other stuff. I think it was kind of like a shrine, and as such I respected it. I figured it was a shrine right away, by the importance the wheel represents to a ship, and the fact that gals thongs were attached to it. I remember wanting to build a shrine myself, to having removed a gals thong or two, but I'm getting off topic. I'll save that for another post.
                            It was a pretty good winter leading up to my 1000th, freezing rain on the Impulse on Isle Royale in Oct. (ok, that whole month sucked)  but then with a double dip on the Spiegel Grove Thanksgiving morning, )(141' and 92',,,, missed not having my pony on that one :-\) followed up by the Govoner's River Walk (a multiple wreck trec on one cylinder) blowing along in the currect over 4-5 wrecks in Riveria Beach Fla. (one of my all time favorite wreck dives) 3 dives in the MOA, 15 ice dives, heading down to Utila to hit the 1000th, then back up here the next weekend to slip beneith the ice with Joe and Dave (350' out) one last time on Lake Harriet. Dont recall why Steve couldn't join us for the last icing, the "wife" probably had some windows for him to wash or something  :-* I have enjoyed hitting the diving pretty hard over the last year, with 112 dives logged and with spring here and the lakes open, I think I'll keep the pace going. I'll go get the Impulse this next weekend, so if you'd like to hit some dives let me know.        THANKS!      TRINITY

[scubajunkie]

  Congrats, Terry.  I'm still looking at 100 dives vs. 3 years.  Guess I got a ways to go to catch ya. Hope to dive with ya again soon.

Carl

[Terry]

              Hey Everyone,

              I thought it was kind of cool to see the list my friend Lisa (H20addict) put together on her 1000 dives as to what and where they were every (even) 100 dives, so I thought I'd do the same for mine, here they are, let me know what you think,

                    # 100-- Perch Lake, Wis. 7-4-82
                      15' for 27 min. 99 degree air temp, got adv. cert 2 weeks later, with Sharie Larson

                      # 200-- Morrison Springs, Ponce DeLeon, Fla. 6-27-84
                      87' for 30 min    caving with Sharie Larson

                      # 300-- White Bear Lake, MN 6-28-87
                        19' for 45 min    diving from my own Zodiac, blown out trying to get out of the boat launch by a tornado, toppling trees and spent the next couple hours ferrying people to the boats blown around the lake, with Sharie Larson

                        # 400-- White Bear Lake, MN 5-27-91
                          18' for 39 min    much more uneventful WBL

                            # 500-- Wreck of the Langham, Bete Gris Bay, Keewanaw Pennisula, Mich 7-18-95
                            99' for 23 min. diving from the Sudden Impulse, had been up diving the Mesquite on this trip

                              # 600-- Blacktipwall Reef, Exhumas, Bahamas 11-1-99
                              97' for 44 min. aboard the liveaboard the Cat Palau, my first liveaboard trip, with Scott Rees and Marsha Millonig

                                # 700-- Marshall Cape, Isabella Is. Galapagoes, Equador. 1-13-03                              88' for 48 min. another dandy liveaboard trip with Mike and Susan Daust

                                  # 800-- Lake Wazee, Wis. 8-4-07
                                    137' for 32 min. with Lynn Loynachan

                                    # 900-- Govonor's River Walk, Riviera Beach, Fla.
                                      89' for 41 min.  A REAL cool wreck trek of 4-5 partial wrecks stretched out in fast current, with Lisa Mongy

                                      # 1000-- Wreck of the Haliburton, Utila, Honduras. 3-19-10                                      102' for 41 min. with Lisa Mongy