Scuba Diving at the Denver Summit
Hey everybody!
tl;dr - Let me know if you'd like to go diving in the Rocky Mountains.
Of all of the places we've had a Summit where one might reasonably expect there to be a possibility of Scuba Diving, the Denver Summit is probably REALLY low on the list.
But it turns out that there is a Dive Shop that does dives at the Denver Aquarium [0] (with all the fish and sharks and whatnot) The Denver Aquarium is also very close to the Convention Center.
I'm going to see about putting together a private group dive event for those of us who think that sounds like a fun idea. Due to cross-contamination concerns for the health and safety of the fish, the dive shop provides all equipment - so you don't have to bring gear. They will allow bringing your own mask - and I'm assuming if a well-scrubbed mask is ok then a well-scrubbed dive computer would be ok - but I'll be checking with them when I call to arrange things.
If you are Open Water certified and would like to join, please send me a response back (reply directly to me rather than the list is fine) so I can judge general interest level when talking to the lovely humans.
If you are **NOT** Open Water certified but are thinking to yourself "wow, that sounds like fun" - the dive shop does certification dives at the aquarium on the weekends. That's a bit out of scope for me to arrange, but if you want to show up in Denver early and do an Open Water class then join us, that's awesome. You can also get certified at home before coming ... but you'll need an Open Water certification to join us.
BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!
There is another interesting diving opportunity in the general Mountain West area - although not immediately **close** to Denver - that Sandy and I are going to be going to before the Summit - Homestead Crater. We're arranging to meet a Scuba instructor there to do our second Altitude cert dive, and also to do a 2-dive "Hot Springs Diver" specialty. We'd be happy to have folks join us.
Homestead Crater [1] is outside of Salt Lake City. It's a hot spring - the water is 96F/35.5C and it's also an altitude dive. If people are interested, we can meet at the crater on Thursday morning pre-summit, dive the crater, then drive to Denver on Friday/Saturday.
** If only a small number of people are interested in any of this - we'll likely just do the Denver dives the weekend before during one of the normally scheduled dive times instead of arranging a group outing, and shift Homestead, if anyone is interested, a few days earlier **
I will not have space enough in my car to get you from the crater to Denver, so if you want to fly in to SLC ahead of time and meet there, awesome.
Unlike Denver, the crater will require you have equipment, including scuba tanks. For anyone interested in coming, there are dive shops in Salt Lake where you can rent gear. There is a dive shop at the crater to do air fills.
Anyway - if anyone is interested in some or all of these things, let me know this week so I can get a headcount and then we can talk more off-list about logistics and figure out how to deal with things for people coming from far off (carpools, equipment, etc)
Monty
PS. If any of you aren't already using Subsurface for dive logging, I'll be happy to help you get set up.
[0] https://divedowntown.com/ [1] https://homesteadresort.com/utah-resort-things-to-do/homestead-crater/
We usually need to reraise important stuff before Summit. So bump this one!:) Can't wait!
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:21 PM Monty Taylor mordred@inaugust.com wrote:
Hey everybody!
tl;dr - Let me know if you'd like to go diving in the Rocky Mountains.
Of all of the places we've had a Summit where one might reasonably expect there to be a possibility of Scuba Diving, the Denver Summit is probably REALLY low on the list.
But it turns out that there is a Dive Shop that does dives at the Denver Aquarium [0] (with all the fish and sharks and whatnot) The Denver Aquarium is also very close to the Convention Center.
I'm going to see about putting together a private group dive event for those of us who think that sounds like a fun idea. Due to cross-contamination concerns for the health and safety of the fish, the dive shop provides all equipment - so you don't have to bring gear. They will allow bringing your own mask - and I'm assuming if a well-scrubbed mask is ok then a well-scrubbed dive computer would be ok - but I'll be checking with them when I call to arrange things.
If you are Open Water certified and would like to join, please send me a response back (reply directly to me rather than the list is fine) so I can judge general interest level when talking to the lovely humans.
If you are **NOT** Open Water certified but are thinking to yourself "wow, that sounds like fun" - the dive shop does certification dives at the aquarium on the weekends. That's a bit out of scope for me to arrange, but if you want to show up in Denver early and do an Open Water class then join us, that's awesome. You can also get certified at home before coming ... but you'll need an Open Water certification to join us.
BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE!
There is another interesting diving opportunity in the general Mountain West area - although not immediately **close** to Denver - that Sandy and I are going to be going to before the Summit - Homestead Crater. We're arranging to meet a Scuba instructor there to do our second Altitude cert dive, and also to do a 2-dive "Hot Springs Diver" specialty. We'd be happy to have folks join us.
Homestead Crater [1] is outside of Salt Lake City. It's a hot spring - the water is 96F/35.5C and it's also an altitude dive. If people are interested, we can meet at the crater on Thursday morning pre-summit, dive the crater, then drive to Denver on Friday/Saturday.
** If only a small number of people are interested in any of this - we'll likely just do the Denver dives the weekend before during one of the normally scheduled dive times instead of arranging a group outing, and shift Homestead, if anyone is interested, a few days earlier **
I will not have space enough in my car to get you from the crater to Denver, so if you want to fly in to SLC ahead of time and meet there, awesome.
Unlike Denver, the crater will require you have equipment, including scuba tanks. For anyone interested in coming, there are dive shops in Salt Lake where you can rent gear. There is a dive shop at the crater to do air fills.
Anyway - if anyone is interested in some or all of these things, let me know this week so I can get a headcount and then we can talk more off-list about logistics and figure out how to deal with things for people coming from far off (carpools, equipment, etc)
Monty
PS. If any of you aren't already using Subsurface for dive logging, I'll be happy to help you get set up.
[0] https://divedowntown.com/ [1] https://homesteadresort.com/utah-resort-things-to-do/homestead-crater/
Hey folks!
So - I have good news and bad news. I'll start with the bad news.
The bad news is that there wasn't enough interest to justify booking a private dive. (There was also *no* interest in homestead crater) So we're down to just booking slots in their regularly scheduled dives on the weekend.
The good news is that there are still spaces available for booking. So I recommend going to:
https://a1scubastore.com/product/dive-with-the-fish/ https://a1scubastore.com/product/dive-with-the-sharks/
and booking a dive directly.
Sandy and I booked dive with the fish for Saturday (because I've got a board meeting on Sunday) Dive with the Fish is also now full (we got the last slots)
I sent a message to the dive shop to see if it's possible for us to _also_ do the shark dive on the same day. It is - so if any of you are interested in doing the Saturday shark dive, let me know and I'll book spots for Sandy and I for the shark dive as well. But go ahead and book yourself a spot - so we can make sure you get to dive before we book a second spot.
If that doesn't work for people, or if you prefer to do the fish dive on Sunday - don't worry about us.
Monty
On 4/18/19 7:05 AM, Rico Lin wrote:
We usually need to reraise important stuff before Summit. So bump this one!:) Can't wait!
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:21 PM Monty Taylor <mordred@inaugust.com mailto:mordred@inaugust.com> wrote:
Hey everybody! tl;dr - Let me know if you'd like to go diving in the Rocky Mountains. Of all of the places we've had a Summit where one might reasonably expect there to be a possibility of Scuba Diving, the Denver Summit is probably REALLY low on the list. But it turns out that there is a Dive Shop that does dives at the Denver Aquarium [0] (with all the fish and sharks and whatnot) The Denver Aquarium is also very close to the Convention Center. I'm going to see about putting together a private group dive event for those of us who think that sounds like a fun idea. Due to cross-contamination concerns for the health and safety of the fish, the dive shop provides all equipment - so you don't have to bring gear. They will allow bringing your own mask - and I'm assuming if a well-scrubbed mask is ok then a well-scrubbed dive computer would be ok - but I'll be checking with them when I call to arrange things. If you are Open Water certified and would like to join, please send me a response back (reply directly to me rather than the list is fine) so I can judge general interest level when talking to the lovely humans. If you are **NOT** Open Water certified but are thinking to yourself "wow, that sounds like fun" - the dive shop does certification dives at the aquarium on the weekends. That's a bit out of scope for me to arrange, but if you want to show up in Denver early and do an Open Water class then join us, that's awesome. You can also get certified at home before coming ... but you'll need an Open Water certification to join us. BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE! There is another interesting diving opportunity in the general Mountain West area - although not immediately **close** to Denver - that Sandy and I are going to be going to before the Summit - Homestead Crater. We're arranging to meet a Scuba instructor there to do our second Altitude cert dive, and also to do a 2-dive "Hot Springs Diver" specialty. We'd be happy to have folks join us. Homestead Crater [1] is outside of Salt Lake City. It's a hot spring - the water is 96F/35.5C and it's also an altitude dive. If people are interested, we can meet at the crater on Thursday morning pre-summit, dive the crater, then drive to Denver on Friday/Saturday. ** If only a small number of people are interested in any of this - we'll likely just do the Denver dives the weekend before during one of the normally scheduled dive times instead of arranging a group outing, and shift Homestead, if anyone is interested, a few days earlier ** I will not have space enough in my car to get you from the crater to Denver, so if you want to fly in to SLC ahead of time and meet there, awesome. Unlike Denver, the crater will require you have equipment, including scuba tanks. For anyone interested in coming, there are dive shops in Salt Lake where you can rent gear. There is a dive shop at the crater to do air fills. Anyway - if anyone is interested in some or all of these things, let me know this week so I can get a headcount and then we can talk more off-list about logistics and figure out how to deal with things for people coming from far off (carpools, equipment, etc) Monty PS. If any of you aren't already using Subsurface for dive logging, I'll be happy to help you get set up. [0] https://divedowntown.com/ [1] https://homesteadresort.com/utah-resort-things-to-do/homestead-crater/-- May The Force of OpenStack Be With You, */Rico Lin /*irc: ricolin
Hi,
I get to Denver on Sunday 28th in the morning, so I booked the shark dive for that day. In case others want to join me, as of April 19th at 1700UTC there are still 5 spots available.
See you there!
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:11 AM Monty Taylor mordred@inaugust.com wrote:
Hey folks!
So - I have good news and bad news. I'll start with the bad news.
The bad news is that there wasn't enough interest to justify booking a private dive. (There was also *no* interest in homestead crater) So we're down to just booking slots in their regularly scheduled dives on the weekend.
The good news is that there are still spaces available for booking. So I recommend going to:
https://a1scubastore.com/product/dive-with-the-fish/ https://a1scubastore.com/product/dive-with-the-sharks/
and booking a dive directly.
Sandy and I booked dive with the fish for Saturday (because I've got a board meeting on Sunday) Dive with the Fish is also now full (we got the last slots)
I sent a message to the dive shop to see if it's possible for us to _also_ do the shark dive on the same day. It is - so if any of you are interested in doing the Saturday shark dive, let me know and I'll book spots for Sandy and I for the shark dive as well. But go ahead and book yourself a spot - so we can make sure you get to dive before we book a second spot.
If that doesn't work for people, or if you prefer to do the fish dive on Sunday - don't worry about us.
Monty
On 4/18/19 7:05 AM, Rico Lin wrote:
We usually need to reraise important stuff before Summit. So bump this one!:) Can't wait!
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:21 PM Monty Taylor <mordred@inaugust.com mailto:mordred@inaugust.com> wrote:
Hey everybody! tl;dr - Let me know if you'd like to go diving in the RockyMountains.
Of all of the places we've had a Summit where one might reasonably expect there to be a possibility of Scuba Diving, the Denver Summitis
probably REALLY low on the list. But it turns out that there is a Dive Shop that does dives at the Denver Aquarium [0] (with all the fish and sharks and whatnot) The Denver Aquarium is also very close to the Convention Center. I'm going to see about putting together a private group dive eventfor
those of us who think that sounds like a fun idea. Due to cross-contamination concerns for the health and safety of the fish,the
dive shop provides all equipment - so you don't have to bring gear. They will allow bringing your own mask - and I'm assuming if awell-scrubbed
mask is ok then a well-scrubbed dive computer would be ok - but I'llbe
checking with them when I call to arrange things. If you are Open Water certified and would like to join, please send me a response back (reply directly to me rather than the list is fine) soI
can judge general interest level when talking to the lovely humans. If you are **NOT** Open Water certified but are thinking to yourself "wow, that sounds like fun" - the dive shop does certification divesat
the aquarium on the weekends. That's a bit out of scope for me to arrange, but if you want to show up in Denver early and do an Open Water class then join us, that's awesome. You can also get certified athome
before coming ... but you'll need an Open Water certification to join us. BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE! There is another interesting diving opportunity in the generalMountain
West area - although not immediately **close** to Denver - that Sandy and I are going to be going to before the Summit - Homestead Crater. We're arranging to meet a Scuba instructor there to do our second Altitude cert dive, and also to do a 2-dive "Hot Springs Diver" specialty. We'd be happy to have folks join us. Homestead Crater [1] is outside of Salt Lake City. It's a hot spring
the water is 96F/35.5C and it's also an altitude dive. If people are interested, we can meet at the crater on Thursday morning pre-summit, dive the crater, then drive to Denver on Friday/Saturday. ** If only a small number of people are interested in any of this - we'll likely just do the Denver dives the weekend before during oneof
the normally scheduled dive times instead of arranging a groupouting,
and shift Homestead, if anyone is interested, a few days earlier ** I will not have space enough in my car to get you from the crater to Denver, so if you want to fly in to SLC ahead of time and meet there, awesome. Unlike Denver, the crater will require you have equipment, including scuba tanks. For anyone interested in coming, there are dive shops in Salt Lake where you can rent gear. There is a dive shop at the crater to do air fills. Anyway - if anyone is interested in some or all of these things, letme
know this week so I can get a headcount and then we can talk more off-list about logistics and figure out how to deal with things for people coming from far off (carpools, equipment, etc) Monty PS. If any of you aren't already using Subsurface for dive logging, I'll be happy to help you get set up. [0] https://divedowntown.com/ [1]https://homesteadresort.com/utah-resort-things-to-do/homestead-crater/
-- May The Force of OpenStack Be With You, */Rico Lin /*irc: ricolin
I wish I would have saw this earlier, sounds like fun. Will not be able to make it but hope it is a great experience for you all.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:05 AM Miguel Lavalle miguel@mlavalle.com wrote:
Hi,
I get to Denver on Sunday 28th in the morning, so I booked the shark dive for that day. In case others want to join me, as of April 19th at 1700UTC there are still 5 spots available.
See you there!
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:11 AM Monty Taylor mordred@inaugust.com wrote:
Hey folks!
So - I have good news and bad news. I'll start with the bad news.
The bad news is that there wasn't enough interest to justify booking a private dive. (There was also *no* interest in homestead crater) So we're down to just booking slots in their regularly scheduled dives on the weekend.
The good news is that there are still spaces available for booking. So I recommend going to:
https://a1scubastore.com/product/dive-with-the-fish/ https://a1scubastore.com/product/dive-with-the-sharks/
and booking a dive directly.
Sandy and I booked dive with the fish for Saturday (because I've got a board meeting on Sunday) Dive with the Fish is also now full (we got the last slots)
I sent a message to the dive shop to see if it's possible for us to _also_ do the shark dive on the same day. It is - so if any of you are interested in doing the Saturday shark dive, let me know and I'll book spots for Sandy and I for the shark dive as well. But go ahead and book yourself a spot - so we can make sure you get to dive before we book a second spot.
If that doesn't work for people, or if you prefer to do the fish dive on Sunday - don't worry about us.
Monty
On 4/18/19 7:05 AM, Rico Lin wrote:
We usually need to reraise important stuff before Summit. So bump this one!:) Can't wait!
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:21 PM Monty Taylor <mordred@inaugust.com mailto:mordred@inaugust.com> wrote:
Hey everybody! tl;dr - Let me know if you'd like to go diving in the RockyMountains.
Of all of the places we've had a Summit where one might reasonably expect there to be a possibility of Scuba Diving, the Denver Summitis
probably REALLY low on the list. But it turns out that there is a Dive Shop that does dives at the Denver Aquarium [0] (with all the fish and sharks and whatnot) The Denver Aquarium is also very close to the Convention Center. I'm going to see about putting together a private group dive eventfor
those of us who think that sounds like a fun idea. Due to cross-contamination concerns for the health and safety of the fish,the
dive shop provides all equipment - so you don't have to bring gear. They will allow bringing your own mask - and I'm assuming if awell-scrubbed
mask is ok then a well-scrubbed dive computer would be ok - butI'll be
checking with them when I call to arrange things. If you are Open Water certified and would like to join, please send me a response back (reply directly to me rather than the list is fine)so I
can judge general interest level when talking to the lovely humans. If you are **NOT** Open Water certified but are thinking to yourself "wow, that sounds like fun" - the dive shop does certificationdives at
the aquarium on the weekends. That's a bit out of scope for me to arrange, but if you want to show up in Denver early and do an Open Water class then join us, that's awesome. You can also get certified athome
before coming ... but you'll need an Open Water certification to join us. BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE! There is another interesting diving opportunity in the generalMountain
West area - although not immediately **close** to Denver - thatSandy
and I are going to be going to before the Summit - Homestead Crater. We're arranging to meet a Scuba instructor there to do our second Altitude cert dive, and also to do a 2-dive "Hot Springs Diver" specialty. We'd be happy to have folks join us. Homestead Crater [1] is outside of Salt Lake City. It's a hotspring -
the water is 96F/35.5C and it's also an altitude dive. If people are interested, we can meet at the crater on Thursday morningpre-summit,
dive the crater, then drive to Denver on Friday/Saturday. ** If only a small number of people are interested in any of this - we'll likely just do the Denver dives the weekend before during oneof
the normally scheduled dive times instead of arranging a groupouting,
and shift Homestead, if anyone is interested, a few days earlier ** I will not have space enough in my car to get you from the crater to Denver, so if you want to fly in to SLC ahead of time and meetthere,
awesome. Unlike Denver, the crater will require you have equipment, including scuba tanks. For anyone interested in coming, there are dive shopsin
Salt Lake where you can rent gear. There is a dive shop at the crater to do air fills. Anyway - if anyone is interested in some or all of these things,let me
know this week so I can get a headcount and then we can talk more off-list about logistics and figure out how to deal with things for people coming from far off (carpools, equipment, etc) Monty PS. If any of you aren't already using Subsurface for dive logging, I'll be happy to help you get set up. [0] https://divedowntown.com/ [1]https://homesteadresort.com/utah-resort-things-to-do/homestead-crater/
-- May The Force of OpenStack Be With You, */Rico Lin /*irc: ricolin
For your information,
We're also going to have a dive with sharks on 27, April. So if you're interested in join and like to have some company (there still 2 in stock for that day), here's the link https://www.a1scuba.com/product/dive-with-the-sharks/
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 11:21 PM Melvin Hillsman mrhillsman@gmail.com wrote:
I wish I would have saw this earlier, sounds like fun. Will not be able to make it but hope it is a great experience for you all.
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 10:05 AM Miguel Lavalle miguel@mlavalle.com wrote:
Hi,
I get to Denver on Sunday 28th in the morning, so I booked the shark dive for that day. In case others want to join me, as of April 19th at 1700UTC there are still 5 spots available.
See you there!
On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 11:11 AM Monty Taylor mordred@inaugust.com wrote:
Hey folks!
So - I have good news and bad news. I'll start with the bad news.
The bad news is that there wasn't enough interest to justify booking a private dive. (There was also *no* interest in homestead crater) So we're down to just booking slots in their regularly scheduled dives on the weekend.
The good news is that there are still spaces available for booking. So I recommend going to:
https://a1scubastore.com/product/dive-with-the-fish/ https://a1scubastore.com/product/dive-with-the-sharks/
and booking a dive directly.
Sandy and I booked dive with the fish for Saturday (because I've got a board meeting on Sunday) Dive with the Fish is also now full (we got the last slots)
I sent a message to the dive shop to see if it's possible for us to _also_ do the shark dive on the same day. It is - so if any of you are interested in doing the Saturday shark dive, let me know and I'll book spots for Sandy and I for the shark dive as well. But go ahead and book yourself a spot - so we can make sure you get to dive before we book a second spot.
If that doesn't work for people, or if you prefer to do the fish dive on Sunday - don't worry about us.
Monty
On 4/18/19 7:05 AM, Rico Lin wrote:
We usually need to reraise important stuff before Summit. So bump this one!:) Can't wait!
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:21 PM Monty Taylor <mordred@inaugust.com mailto:mordred@inaugust.com> wrote:
Hey everybody! tl;dr - Let me know if you'd like to go diving in the RockyMountains.
Of all of the places we've had a Summit where one might reasonably expect there to be a possibility of Scuba Diving, the DenverSummit is
probably REALLY low on the list. But it turns out that there is a Dive Shop that does dives at the Denver Aquarium [0] (with all the fish and sharks and whatnot) The Denver Aquarium is also very close to the Convention Center. I'm going to see about putting together a private group dive eventfor
those of us who think that sounds like a fun idea. Due to cross-contamination concerns for the health and safety of thefish, the
dive shop provides all equipment - so you don't have to bring gear. They will allow bringing your own mask - and I'm assuming if awell-scrubbed
mask is ok then a well-scrubbed dive computer would be ok - butI'll be
checking with them when I call to arrange things. If you are Open Water certified and would like to join, please send me a response back (reply directly to me rather than the list is fine)so I
can judge general interest level when talking to the lovely humans. If you are **NOT** Open Water certified but are thinking toyourself
"wow, that sounds like fun" - the dive shop does certificationdives at
the aquarium on the weekends. That's a bit out of scope for me to arrange, but if you want to show up in Denver early and do an Open Water class then join us, that's awesome. You can also get certified athome
before coming ... but you'll need an Open Water certification to join us. BUT WAIT - THERE'S MORE! There is another interesting diving opportunity in the generalMountain
West area - although not immediately **close** to Denver - thatSandy
and I are going to be going to before the Summit - HomesteadCrater.
We're arranging to meet a Scuba instructor there to do our second Altitude cert dive, and also to do a 2-dive "Hot Springs Diver" specialty. We'd be happy to have folks join us. Homestead Crater [1] is outside of Salt Lake City. It's a hotspring -
the water is 96F/35.5C and it's also an altitude dive. If peopleare
interested, we can meet at the crater on Thursday morningpre-summit,
dive the crater, then drive to Denver on Friday/Saturday. ** If only a small number of people are interested in any of this - we'll likely just do the Denver dives the weekend before duringone of
the normally scheduled dive times instead of arranging a groupouting,
and shift Homestead, if anyone is interested, a few days earlier ** I will not have space enough in my car to get you from the craterto
Denver, so if you want to fly in to SLC ahead of time and meetthere,
awesome. Unlike Denver, the crater will require you have equipment,including
scuba tanks. For anyone interested in coming, there are dive shopsin
Salt Lake where you can rent gear. There is a dive shop at the crater to do air fills. Anyway - if anyone is interested in some or all of these things,let me
know this week so I can get a headcount and then we can talk more off-list about logistics and figure out how to deal with things for people coming from far off (carpools, equipment, etc) Monty PS. If any of you aren't already using Subsurface for dive logging, I'll be happy to help you get set up. [0] https://divedowntown.com/ [1]https://homesteadresort.com/utah-resort-things-to-do/homestead-crater/
-- May The Force of OpenStack Be With You, */Rico Lin /*irc: ricolin
-- Kind regards,
Melvin Hillsman mrhillsman@gmail.com mobile: (832) 264-2646
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