Scuba Matt

Welcome back!A local based company has built enormous, cutting shears used by Blow-Out Technologies Inc. to cut into the leaking Deepwater Horizon pipe.

http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/local/95663699.html

I’ve found the various “time-lines” that seek to document America’s oil spill tragedy in the gulf can be divided into three categories.
1. Political rants pointing out how Obama and BP failed to address the gulf oil spill appropriately….
Fox News criticizes Obama’s oil spill response in a 46 day timeline
Check out a timeline of Obama’s 5 [...]

I am amazed by the level of coverage (or lack of) surrounding the cleanup efforts in America’s gulf oil spill tragedy.
Here’s one perspective:
“Federal Officials and BP Executives are purportedly hampering the efforts of photojournalists who seek access to sites worst-affected by the gulf oil spill tragedy.”

In another view, Good Morning America’s Sam Champion physically dives [...]

I found this great, completely free video showing cave divers (and cave-diving photographer Wes Skiles) tracking down human bones in the blue holes of the Bahamas.
Amazing stuff.  They seem to point to a strange conclusion.
Here’s the link.

Brilliant. We have a whole day that’s been dedicated to the environmentalist movement since 1970. So walk to work, pick up a few cigarette butts and feel good about your shrinking carbon footprint.
However, don’t forget that the United States is still fighting a two-front war in Iraq and Afghanistan.
So, when you happily climb into [...]

Chicago Tribune:  “Alarmed by latest research, the Obama administration is conducting a broad review of toxic weed killer atrazine that could lead to tighter restrictions…”

Hey Everybody!
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 diving in Duluth, MN through Innerspace 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. [...]