About Us
Our purpose
I created this site for new and experienced watersports enthusiasts who want improve their current abilities and skills or learn a new sport. The information here will help you save money, make you a safer and more knowledgeable participant in your chosen activities, prevent costly mistakes and help you troubleshoot problems so that you don’t miss out on all the fun.
Jet skis or personal watercraft
My family and I have been boating for over 40 years, diving for over 30, and PWC owners for 15 years. We’ve learned a lot along the way. Personal watercraft are often quite different than sport boats.
Scuba and snorkeling share similarities but have many differences. Whether you’re new to water sports or experienced, you will find something useful here.
We take our watersports safety seriously, and we’ve taught many people lessons at the lakes, rivers and oceans we’ve visited. We’ve helped many people launch and load their watercraft over the years.
Scuba and snorkeling
My wife and I obtained our PADI Open Water certifications in 1988. Since then, we’ve dived numerous sites in the southeast US, Hawaii, the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. We’ve snorkeled in many more locales. This is because our kids had to wait until 12 to get full certification, so we took them snorkeling many times before they reached that age.
Once they got certified, we all continued our diving education and began taking specialty trips. We’re avid diving safety nuts, and put even more emphasis on having zero to minimal impact on our oceans and reefs when we dive.
Dive masters are always good about instructing groups to remain no-touch divers. This is not only for the safety of the diver, but also the protection of the reef and sea life. You’ll see us emphasize this in all of our content on scuba and snorkeling here.
As many divers know, there are always a few people on the boat who bump into everything, take “souvenirs” from the reef, exhibit unsafe behaviors or even full on panic. Have fun but remember our oceans are under great strains right now. Treat our reefs and aquatic wildlife with great respect.
Also be sure you follow all your training and remain calm. I’ve seen and tried to prevent sudden ascents from divers confused on navigation or running low on air. I’ve had to buddy breathe with strangers to keep them out of trouble.
From reef diving, swim-through shipwrecks, night dives, Manta Ray dives, to the Yucatán’s Cenotes; we’ve done a lot. But there’s more left to explore, and we hope to provide valuable info for our readers so they can join in or increase both their safety and enjoyment of the other 70% of our planet.
Boating, towing, skiing and more
Boating is a very broad topic. Most of our experience is in power boats. Over the years, we’ve learned much on safety, maintenance, towing, tubing, skiing and more with our boats. Sometimes we learn by doing, sometimes by reading, and occasionally from the school of hard knocks.
We hope you will join us as we share as much info as we can for both new and experienced boaters.
Powered boards and jet boards
Not many people have experienced riding around the lake on a powered board, or jumping surf on a board with an electric motor. It opens a whole new area of “personal watercraft” in an unconventional sense.
We’ve used fly boards a few times, and our local dealer has powered boards we hope to borrow soon. So look for those to be featured in the near future. We hope you enjoy the site, find some helpful information and be sure to share anything you find to be helpful with your friends and on social media.
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So join us for water sports fun
No matter what water sport you enjoy or want to start, we’ve got you covered. We’ll sort out the myths from the facts, the good tips from the less than helpful ones. We’ll help you keep your equipment in good working order. We’ll help you find the right water sport and the best equipment to use for it. If we don’t have personal experience, we’ll consult the experts to get it right for our readers. We hope you find something valuable here and enjoy the ride(s).