Scuba Matt

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Check out my friend Yan Saillard’s upcoming schedule of dive classes.

If you are interested in learning to scuba here in Duluth, check out the “Open Water Diver Phase I” classes starting this Tuesday at Woodland Elementary.
Yes, that’s right, Scuba [...]

I thought I’d get a review going of the best places to snorkel and scuba dive in Florida.
As a professional scuba instructor who has taught hundreds of students in Florida and Hawaii, I can recommend the best and safest Florida scuba diving.
For U.S. citizens, air travel to Florida is much less expensive than Mexico [...]

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ALEXANDRIA, MINN. – Black Friday 2009: If there’s a time for serious shopping, this is it.
In the Alexandria area, the deals started as early as 3 a.m., and chances are, you probably weren’t awake to see them. Watch the webcast above, or click here for the rest of the web story.

One of my goals with the Scubamatt website is to support Google Earth Dive Sites

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Great info from Google Touring here on how to make, complex, graphically rich tours for places I am truly familiar with — for example, Florida Keys dive sites and Oahu dive sites too.
A better example of what have in mind appears below. [...]

Researchers create mini robots to study the ocean!
http://www.livescience.com/environment/091110-ocean-robot-swarm.html

Tags: AUEs, ocean sensors, robots ocean

The brutal, baseball bat beating of a 16-year-old Willmar teen has authorities concerned about rural MN gang violence. Matt Standal reports.

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7 reasons why Minnesota and Hawaii might be more alike than you think…
 

Number 1. The North Shore

What most of my Minnesotan friends don’t know is that Hawaii’s North Shore is a [...]

That’s it!
With my journey in Oahu done, I’ve packed my bags and headed approximately 4,000 miles back to the North Star State. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                  Needless to say, my scuba adventures will continue!
You ask: why would anyone in their right mind scuba dive in MN?

Well, I plan to answer that question [...]

With Spring Break here in Hawaii coming to an end, blog time is now a reality. Here’s some of my recent fave dive pics.  It was a good two weeks while it lasted!
I’ve also included a link to a great video that friend Joakim Hjelm published. The shots and video really sum up what it’s like to [...]

Perfectly framed by the classic 1970’s adventure flick “The Deep,” (1977) the tenuous relationship between divers and big eels is always a good topic of scuba conversation.
Dive Instructors in some tourist destinations go as far as to name big eels and give them cut-up hotdogs by hand.
Not me.

Photo Courtesy Hawaii State Fishing Records

Check out this [...]