Erica Blake – Slicing his cupped hands through the chilly water to propel himself forward, John Harris made his way to the submerged platforms at Whitestar Quarry. He checked the depth on his gauges, flooded his mask and cleared out the water, and took out the mouthpiece of his regulator as a demonstration of how [...]
Archive for 07/15/2011
Matthew T. Hall – Ten scuba divers and four deck hands gathered under gray skies on Mission Bay Tuesday morning and motored south to the Coronado Islands off the Mexican coast. Theirs was no recreational dive. They planned to remove an estimated 1,000 pounds of fishing net abandoned 100 feet below the surface at one [...]
Susan Cocking - A scuba diving trade group filed suit Monday in Tallahassee to try to stop the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission from enforcing a costly charterboat license law in advance of the two-day lobster mini-season July 27-28. The complaint, filed by attorney Bob Harris of the Diving Equipment and Marketing Association (DEMA) [...]
