Diving San Diego

San Diego Life Guards, Diving San Diego

What Happens When Things Go Wrong

a Jolla Shores is a sandy beach approximately one mile long, nestled in a small beach community only about 1 mile long of beach. A west facing beach where waves are usually great for those just learning to surf and for those learning to Scuba Dive many novice scuba classes are held at La Jolla Shores. Or for those wishing to learn to surf a surf area is marked after 9:00 for surfing only where you could find Surf Divas out giving beginning surf classes, and for those more skilled to practice techniques. Even though the waves are gentle most of the time the beach, rip currents that can be quite strong at times.

The Park area where children can swing in the sand filled play area or climb on the child safe forts and slides while families picnic, or stroll on the broad walkway that runs the distance from the La Jolla Inn to the far end of the park area, along this walk way of about a mile long are several towers, and one main building that house the best of the best at La Jolla shores the San Diego County Life Guards, stand ready to be there when you need them the most. watching the ocean for the rip currents that most of us would never see. Rip Currents can be Identified by the white foamy water being pulled seaward. When these currents get strong and swimmers not paying attention to the water around them tragedy can strike very quickly and silently, pulling a swimmer to deep water, panic can set in quickly bringing other non qualified persons to the rescue only to become another part of the already bad situation.

La Jolla Life Guards play a variety of roles at the beach from obvious life savers to finders of lost children, mediators of disputes, someone to talk to about the waters, minor first aid providers, to Emergency first responders, putting their lives in danger to save another.

Trained to swim threw the waves fight the rip currents, and bring you back to shore maybe a little worn out from your ordeal but still able to say thank you, that’s what counts.

A Thankless Job

Some time the job of a life guard comes down to making people obey the rules of the beach no drinking, dogs off the beach by 9:00, even parking , but the fact is they are doing their job and are not there to ruin your day no matter what you may think. Because even though you may get mad at them for telling you to get out of the swim area with a surf board or site you for having a dog on the beach after hours, or launching your boat or kayak at the wrong place, if something happens to you no matter how nasty you have treated or talked to or about them if you get in trouble in the ocean and need their help they will be there for you.

So Boat smart , dive smart , swim smart and respect those that have taken on the job of making sure you are safe, in out and around the water Your San Diego County Life Guards.

Happy Blogging

Diving San Diego – Los Coronados

A Day in the Los Coronados

Horn shark,

Just 15 miles south of San Diego, this is the best half-day trip for scuba diving in San Diego. A small conglomerate of uninhabited islands just off the coast of Rosarito, Mexico (just South of the border), the most popular dive spots are at ‘North Island’, including ‘Keyhole’ and ‘Lobster Shack’. With depths ranging 15 – 100 feet, and even an old small wreck near ‘Lobster Shack’, the Coronados are a great dive for all skill levels and a “must see” dive site. With visibility between 50′- 150′ on average, it’s not uncommon to see lots of purple coral, octopus, Moray Eels, Horn Sharks, Harbor Seals, Sea Lions, and Garibaldi. Making the Coronados Islands a dive you’ll always remember of San Diego dive site

Once the trip is complete, You arrive at the dive site Lobster Shack a few moments later your boat is anchored, and the dive brief is over and your ready to dive. Several dive boats will take you there, The Marissa, the Water horse Charter , and the Lois Ann.

Doing a giant stride, into the cool waters, you descend the first thing to catch your eye is anchored in 40 feet of water you can see the bottom, obscured only by the thousand of fish that may get in your way, the water is a beautiful blue, the bottom has a great deal of structure bolders covered with grass. and soft growth, from the shore the bottom is rocky with eel grass as you move away from the shore, the bottom drops abruptly and becomes a rocky haven for eels lobster octopus and other ssorted fish, invertebrates.

Dropping further the bottom turns sandy with sparse plants and old wheels. and parts of a old cabin cruiser, that stories change with the amount of people that have been out to see whats left of this wreck, one story goes that two doctors went out on a fishing trip set the autopilot, fell asleep and ran aground. before it could be retrieved it was ran picked over by fishermen and left to sink off of lobster shack in about 65 feet of water. the ocean has taken it’s toll on this little boat and has been reduced to some boards and structural supports.

To dive this spot once is a great introduction to Diving San Diego, even though its really in Mexico, you start in San Diego. diving it again you find more and more things to look at. Sea Lions lay on the shore and the young pups come out to see what your doing. playing with your fins. you may surface with a group of young sea lions surrounding you wanting to be your friend.

Moray Eels hid in the rocks accompanied by cleaner shrimp, that craw in and out of the monster eel’s mouth, cleaning parasites form within and roaming over its body cleaning its skin as well. a strange partnership but it seems to work, for both the eel and the shrimp.

Moray Eel and cleaner shrimp

looking in the rocks you may see the Key hole limpet Megathura Crenula the scientific name attaches itself to the rocks where it lives out its days eating algae, tunicates and sponges. related to Abalone. mussels, sea hares, and Sea Snails.

key hole limpet

Diving San Diego boats out to the Coronado Islands can be one of the best vacation dives that people do when coming to California. Diving with a guide on the Island can also improve your diving experience by being shown the hiding places of some of the local sea life, with out worrying about navigating around the dive site.

Other dive sites on the Mexican Islands are key hole. Middle ground to name just a couple, are also just as close as a few hundred yards to maybe a mile or two across to the next Island. what ever your dive site on the Los Coronados you will have a great dive.

So come dive with us, enjoy what San Diego Diving has to offer you and your friends. Hope to see you soon happy Blogging

Diving La Jolla Shores.

Diving San Diego La Jolla Shores

Diving the past few weeks in San Diego has been well not the best, the red tide has plagued by it for months now, where the diving has been sketchy at best. The red tide is still with us but it has is slowly making its way out of San Diego, or sinking what ever the red tide does.

The red tide is actually the Birth of many toxic microorganisms or algae, that feeds on the surface or close to the surface during the day collecting light and then feeding on nutrients at night. This light collecting creates a luminescence when the algae is disturbed, producing a light shows in the surf or when divers move through the water with the moon light. the wave’s sparkle green and divers leave a trail of light as they swim in the water. One bay in Puerto Rico has a extreme amount of Glowing Algae in the water of its bay and can at times create a awesome photo op, the algae glows when its disturbed and acts as a aura around the body lighting what ever is creating the disturbance, in the below picture a young lady creates her version of a snow angle , here it would be a water angle.

swimming in Bio-luminescent water produces a water angle

Although it is very beautiful and quite odd to see, it has its affect on the diving, the algae over population explosion makes the water brown or dark green and hard to see through for diving this is not the optimum conditions. so along with high surf and the red tide, diving has had poor conditions. for the past several months. However the conditions have been becoming a little better. Colder water has pushed some of that red tide to the surface and keeping viability where you want it on the bottom rather nice. and clear. With the clarity comes the spotting of bigger and smaller ocean creatures such as the giant Halibuts that lay on the bottom covered with sand waiting for a meal to swim close by. only moving when something bigger or noisier , or scarier such as the rubber clad one eyed scuba monster with a video camera disturbs its slumber.

Almost like a ghost in the night floating through Inner space the shape of a shovel nosed guitar fish catches your eye then vanishes into the distance.

As the diver continue their trek through the now blue water, another visitor from the depths appears first one than another and another we count 11 during one, dive. The visitor makes us all hungry for breakfast the massive creature, moving on the currents of the sea, catching its meals (typically other Jelly fish) as they too float past the tentacles of the monstrous Fried Egg Jellyfish. its size is about 12 to 18 inches, in diameter, with a main undercarriage of about 4 feet long. The tentacles, although long and and venom packed to its pray deadly to people and divers the Fried Egg does not pack the punch of most jelly fish to the person in the water.

Other fish , Mammals, invertebrates, emerge from the depths of the shores, hiding in the wall you will find Octomom a octopus that inhabits the wall, only coming out under the safety of darkness or when light has faded allowing it to freely move about the wall,searching for food, shell fish , crabs and such most of the time curling up inside a hole in the wall exposing only a eye to protect itself from unwanted guests, Sheep head meander back and forth across its chosen area protecting its territory from interlopers. who would challenge to control the females, within the harem. All sheephead are born female. Most of them change to males following environmental clues we don’t fully understand. The Males grow to be very big, and are black at the tail and head and mid body is usually a reddish color.

Other Fish of the Wall

Other fish inhabit the wall, Sarcastic fringe head, pipe fish, sea stars , horn shark are all natural tenents on the wall California spiny Lobster find refuge in holes on the wall or under the lip of the crumbling lip of the canyon wall. Squid come into the shores are turning the bottom into a vision of a snow covered plains area with vivid white egg clusters bound together waiting to hatch.

squid eggs bound together on the ocean floor

(imagine thousands of these eggs covering the ocean floor) the wonder that not many people get to see. divers descend to the depths to watch the hatching squid take to the ocean to eat and grow to come back to the wall and lay their eggs, when nature calls.

So many fish so many things to see, I never can understand when people say there is nothing to see diving at the shores. I don’t know about anyone else, but the pictures you have seen in this blog were all taken at the shores there are many more where these came from and plenty more to be taken below the wave of La Jolla shores.

Enjoy your diving , remember dive safe and dive often,

Diving San Diego – Conditions, Getting Better?

San Diego’s Dive Spots.

Are they getting better? I guess this depends on who you talk to and where they get their information, some environmentalists say as the oceans clean up the big fish will start coming back because the smaller fish are able to feed and the chemicals and junk that we put into the oceans through run off and what not, are being cleaned by natural processes what ever they are.

We are seeing some big fish starting to come back to The area of La Jolla Cove. in San Diego but is this a sign of things getting better or just the water warming up? I would hope its a sign that things are getting better, but if we keep doing what we always do and expect a different out come isn’t that a sign of delusion, we need to change the things we do. We as divers need to pick up some of that trash we come across on a day of diving. We need to clean our playground, make sure that the things that give us the most pleasure are pristine and stay that way. If you see someone throwing something in your yard at home and not picking it up wouldn’t you say some thing to them. Chances are if we do say something to the people littering our beaches we will see that litter on the ocean floor.

Become a advocate for your dive site

La Jolla Shores, La Jolla Cove, Boomers, Children s pool, The Marine Room, all great places when Diving San Diego I love diving those spots, we all do I love being able to walk up from a dive and find my spot on the grass and hang out with friends talking about the dive, going over the next dive with students doing the first two dives of their open water or the last two for those that didn’t want to go off a boat. During this surface interval how many of us watch those that come to the beach to party and have picnics with family cook food and leave trash on the ground, diapers, cans, food, what ever they bring that they don’t use, they leave near the trash not in it and figure it is okay, some one will clean it up. The staff at the Shores and the cove clean ever day the trash the people leave there its a thankless job, and they do it well.

I understand there are only so many trash cans and they only hold so much trash, but people need to take out what they Bring in. When they don’t , It ends up in the water plastic, Styrofoam cans, plastic bags, and so much more. This is Dangerous to the environment and to the aquatic life, Sea lions getting plastic around their fins, Lobster’s die in unattended traps. illegal traps set inside the preserve, fish die on fishing line, not being able to eat due to hooks lodged in their throat’s.

Our area may be coming back as far as some of the feeding areas for bigger fish but there is still so much trash down there, Lobster traps that have been rusted and broke free now catching fish randomly left to die in the traps. Thanks to some divers like the divers from SCUBA DIVER GIRLS, and AL’s DIVING two of the local Dive and Snorkel tour businesses. One of these traps was found and a rescue of a horn shark made, the trap was disabled and later brought to the surface and disposed of. Thank you S.D.G you girls rock.

Al’s Diving found a illegal Lobster Snare trap designed to catch lobster by baiting them and snaring them on a chain which they reported to fish and game.

Can we do anything?

Divers do pick up a lot of trash as they dive but we can’t pick it all up but what we can do is to mention to those people to make sure the trash is picked up and if they through stuff on the ground maybe politely to pick it up, I know now a days asking someone to do something could cause a problem but it still need’s to be done be polite they may not know what they are doing something has to be done. Pitch in everyone let’s clean it up.

Happy Blogging and safe diving.

Oil Spill Update – Marine Conservation

Update Gulf Oil spill.

Well everyone its been its been almost 100 days now with deep horizon oil still spewing into the Gulf of Mexico, still no solutions in sight. Back fill, top fill, catch some when is this going to come to an end.

A Champion Steps Up

A unlikely Champion, may have come to the rescue of the gulf a man famous for his escapades with wolves. A Military officer with no where to run. and as a Rescue Swimmer for the Coast Guard in The Guardian ? That’s Right Kevin Costner the Actor, brings to the table a technology that may help to clean up the mess that BP has given us in our waters, the funny which isn’t so funny really is that Kevin Costner gave this technology to BP and the government almost a decade ago. A machine that will separate oil from water and catch what is floating on the surface of our Ocean. destroying our coast line, killing the life beneath the sea and not to mention the livelihood of those that depend on the sea. he has addressed congress Can this be the answer, Mr. Costner seems to think so, as a matter of fact British Petroleum seems to think so too. They have purchased 32 of these machines from the company that Mr. Costner has had building the machine, is Kevin Costner the man with the answer to cleaning up the oil. Maybe. But who is going to make it stop, Mother earth is Bleeding and she is bleeding about the 3 Olympic size swimming pools every few days. about 108 million gallons of Oil has gushed out since the Horizon went down.

Still with all the talk about cleaning it up there is no sign of stopping it. as time goes on and all the talk in Washington go on, trying to blow sun shine, up someplace this Volcano of oil erupts beneath the surface and makes its way 87 miles to the shore line of the United states. A Gulf War of our own, a battle of a enormous magnitude. We have put men on the moon yet we can’t stop the black poison from creeping to our shores.

What Are Your Thoughts.

What do you think needs to be done, put your thoughts to pen and paper to Key board and screen. Let us know what you think, give Washington, BP and all those that are talking about fixing this problem, what they can do. Does Kevin Costner have the answer to cleaning this mess up? Maybe, a lot of people thinks so.

108 Million gallons ( about 54 million gallons of gasoline.) of oil that’s a lot of car’s with out gas, that’s a lot of tires not being made that is a lot of roads not being able to paved the longer it goes on the more jobs are lost, the more the economy gets battered, who will ultimately pay for this mess? Look int the Mirror.

Let us know what you think.

Happy Blogging

Disability Doesn’t Mean Inability

Approximately three weeks ago Al’s Diving finished up the first of many classes for those divers that want to help persons with disabilities experience the world of Scuba Diving.

What we have experienced is that focusing on what a person can’t do just makes that part of their life more prominent. Here at San Diego Adaptive Scuba Diving we want to change that focus, a pyridine shift so to speak, Jim Elliot founder of Dive heart in Chicago has a daughter that was blind from birth. She was the focus of her peers as the blind girl at one point she decided she was not going to use her cane because she could see (a 1 inch letter approximately 1 inch from her eye) just like anyone else. You can imagine, the stress it put on Mr. Elliott he heard of a program that took persons with sight impairments. Well to make a long story a little shorter she went to the ski school and learned to ski. when asked what she did over the weekend and with pictures of her skiing she became that girl that snow skis, it not only made her feel good about herself but everyone that knew her thought different about her, making the fact that she was blind no longer a point of focus.

With the forming of organizations such as Diveheart and Wounded Warriors, and now here in San Diego area San Diego Adaptive Scuba Diving (in progress of establishing its 501 (c) 3 Non-profit foundation we have started diver training already certifying 5 dive buddies to assist divers that may struggle on land to experience the underwater environment where on land the effects of gravity make it a overwhelming struggle to move around. Providing perfect buoyancy to someone that has that struggle to move about on land, underwater is a life changing experience.

Spinal Cord injuries, Amputations, MS, MD, Autism, Down Syndrome, all these conditions that can be devastating, to the individual as well as the family members. What defines the Individual after the person becomes the disability. Think, about it do you know someone one that maybe was born with a disability or incurred a injury due to a accident, motor cycle , Car, maybe even falling off a horse? How did you define that person after the accident? Poor guy / girl, she is in a wheel chair now so tragic he or she won’t ever walk again, their poor family how are they going to deal with this? Wonder if they would like to learn to snow ski, or maybe scuba diving WHAT? who ever said that?

Well a few have, or we wouldn’t have the programs that we have now. San Diego Adaptive Scuba, Diveheart, Wounded Warrior’s, Wheels to Water, and Special Olympics, operate on the premise people with a can do spirit can accomplish just about anything. Possibility present themselves and opportunities be come possibilities from possibilities come reality, all it takes is the want, willingness, and action, and one of the most import thing is to stop listening to the people tell them they can’t do things.

San Diego Adaptive Scuba Diving

The Goal for San Diego Adaptive Scuba Diving is to train already certified scuba divers to assist divers with disabilities to Scuba. They are driven to train, and Certify through H.S.A. (Handicapped Scuba Association)divers with disabilities. Jacques Cousteau once thought that he would never use his arms again because of a automobile accident in his early years in a automobile accident. He never would fly with the French Air force but he would still fly through inner space. Although Jacques Cousteau regained use of his arms again he and Phillipe Cousteau Sr. supported the Handicapped diving program appearing in a short film called Freedom in Depth showing divers with disabilities diving with able bodied divers, entering and exiting the water is the most difficult portion of the dives. Once in the water all things being equal, the divers move through the water effortlessly using hand propulsion or the use of underwater scooters

these machine’s level the playing field, the diver breaths and just hangs on, and can go almost anywhere a able bodied diver can go the freedom of movement now becomes hand controlled rather than mobility through the legs. Special gloves made by black Lagoon Products Darkfin gloves are great for divers that have in-ability to move their legs allowing them to pull through the water with more efficiency. We at San Diego Adaptive Scuba used the Darkfin gloves in a recent class to see how they worked for ourselves, awesome.

Disability Doesn’t Mean Inability

Weather or not you are able bodied or not the ocean is there for everyone to enjoy weather you fish or surf, scuba, swim, what ever your hobby may be it may be something that those with mobility issues can do along with you if trained, Disability doesn’t have to mean can’t enjoy your sport enjoy your health and be thankful for all that you have next time you have the chance to make a dream come true for someone remember all it takes is, Want Willingness and Action.

Marine Conservation – Another Oil Leak in Gulf

Another Well , Another Leak,

ship in the foreground seems to be using dispersing agent

Well I don’t know what to say, it appears that there is a Second Leak in the Gulf it was confirmed via a pilot that does a lot of independent reporting and photography. J Henry Fair the photographer has verified pictures showing another leak, or plume (a slick about ten miles long and about a mile wide.) coming from another well called Ocean Saratoga, owned and operated by the Company Diamond Offshore.

Apparently from this oil rig was damaged in 2004 by Hurricane Ivan and started leaking back in April of last year this week they are still

trying to clean it up putting a bunch of chemicals into the ocean such as chemical dispersant , my question not only are they putting oil into the ocean either by fault or no fault of their own, they are adding a chemical that we the people have No Idea what effect if any will that chemical do to people that ingest that sea food? Is this Chemical a cancer causing agent, will it dissipate will it be carried up in the Natural rain cycle and be deposited on crops that we will eat.

Is The Truth Being Told.

The fact that this oil spill has been going on now for 50 days the scope of this leak is much more than what is being feed to use, video’s showing the clean up efforts are, going pretty slow reports are saying that the workers only work 15 min per hour.

The effect of this spill is going to be felt for years to come, and that is just for the oil this isn’t to mention the effects we don’t know yet, breathing the fume’s from the oil on those cleaning up what will it do to lungs or to women will this cause birth defects? Fishing for the lives of those who are dependent on that industry, Sports industry the draw to the ocean for Scuba Divers who go to the coast to dive in that area. The economic impact is already taking its toll That BP is saying they will make good on those claims. You know if that is true, that is a lot of Nickles per gallon That’s what they are saying they make off each gallon of gas, which depends on who you read, may or may not be true,

What Do You Think?

Your comments are impotent I have given you some of the research I have dug up. I am taking this from the News, private accounts, independent video taken of the web, and of course my own thoughts, I may not be of the same opinion as yours but would like to know what they are.

Hope you enjoy the read and hope it gives you reason to think.

Dive Travel Fiji

Fiji, Bula or Bula Vinaka A warm “hello”

Fiji, If your wondering where you would should take your next dive trip, you may want to check out Fiji. In Nadi (pronounced Nandi) Air terminal as you disembark. The sign above the Customs desk Greets you with Ni Sa Bula , Bula Vinaka, (hello to many, A warm hello) the Fijian people are happy and smiling as you go through customs, they take the moment to say hello smile as they stamp your passport, welcoming you to their country.

Depending on how and who you have booked your travel with, after claiming your dive equipment, you go to pick up your transportation or, if your planning to go aboard a live aboard such as the Fiji Aggressor you will be where you will be picked up by a company that will take you to the City of Suva (pronounced Suba) where you will have a short stop for shopping at one of the villages which was pretty fun, the shop owner treats those of age, to a tasty beverage, anything you want to purchase they will gladly mail home for you, Back into the cars you begin your trip again

you continue your journey down the coast to Suva. Arriving at the boat the crew prepares for a meet and greet with you and the captain for a little Meke (Party) where you meet all the other parties on your boat, our state room was awesome with upper and lower double beds private bath room, and shower, and believe me its now time for a nap. Saturday evening dinner is aboard the Aggressor and Sunday morning your doing the first of many dives, the crystal clear waters of the surrounding ocean makes diving that much better. fish are vivid and colors are bright.

Diving off the boat is incredible up in the morning about 0700 you have some tea or coffee, and a quick dive brief and into the water for a pre-breakfast dive, of course you leave your breakfast order with the chief. and after the dive your breakfast is ready. while eating your breakfast during your surface interval your captain moves the boat to another dive location, after breakfast back in the water, for more exploring and picture taking, Manta rays , Blue ribbon eels, so many more species, another dive and a snack, dive again then lunch another spot another dive, then Dinner, another dive a night dive and then to bed and ready for a good night sleep. the following days runs pretty much the same way. One day we spent on the Island of Makongi Island, Part of the visit is the Kava ceremony where gifts are exchanged between the elected Chief of the boat (that was me) and the Chief of the Island people. Kava is a root that is ground by a stone, into a powder and filtered like a tea bag into water with a fine mesh cloth, it is then offered to the the chief of the visiting people, As the cup or coconut shell is offered the person accepting the shell Claps his or her hands one time, and says Bula at that time he drinks the contents of the shell and hands it back to the presenter and claps three times. To be asked to take part of the Kava ceremony is to be welcomed into the village. A offering of the Kava root to the Chief is done by the one person representing the boat, who through a vote has been selected as the Chief of the boat for the night, Just prior to the Kava Ceremony the Chief from the boat gives the Kava Root to the village Chief and any other gifts they may have brought to the Village.

Life in the villages of the Islands is meager yet no one complains all help and do their part, and the willingness to share with guests from the dive boats is always present. They are proud of their Village and share all the customs of the people and what they do to make a living. such as raising Sea turtles and Giant Clams. for the government to replenish that which has been taken in the past.

On our final dive, of our trip we dove the area around Sams Passage, and did a great last dive, with some very big fish, it was so cool, 96 feet no flash none needed what a way to end a great week of diving normally 7 dives per day except for Saturday we did just the one shark dive, prior to coming back to Vitu Leva the big Island of Fiji. One last night in town out for a nice dinner with new friends then early in the morning we loaded up our Dive equipment hopped in the cars for the ride back to Nadi (pronounced Nandi).

The long flight back to Los Angeles gave us plenty of time to go over in our thoughts about the time we shared the friends we made the dives we had. If your wondering where to take your next dive vacation, you may want to think about Fiji, receive your Bula Venaka , then Sega na lega (pronounced senga na langa, no worries) take alot of pictures if you go, I know I can’t wait to go back.

Marine Conservation – Gulf Coast Oil Spill Update

Whats your thoughts on the oil spill?

Hope everyone took time to honor our Military today. Diving San Diego Want’s to know what your thoughts are on the Oil Spill in the gulf. I know everyone hates it but today I’m kind of wondering what would you do to stop the leak?

Al’s Thoughts

My Thoughts on this are I’m sure in line with everyone else as far as the I am disgusted with how the problem is being handled. These people have the technology to put this well down there but don’t have a clue how to fix it if its broke. Very disheartening, so far every thing they have tried, none have seemed to be working.

Ever since I was little growing up in New Jersey I have loved watching the science fiction moves and wonder how can that be possible, but with all the science fiction that came on the TV sooner or later reality followed fiction, Edger Rice Burroughs, wrote a book about a Island in the Pacific where dinosaurs roamed and the captain of the Nautilus, Captain Nemo still lived in seclusion in the Nautilus, that had been traped in cave, after a earthquake,(it could happen) and now after a ship sinks and strands more people on the Island.

As the Island Volcano becomes unstable, and threatens the lives of those now trapped on the Island, What does this have to do with the oil spill? Well to get off this Island, they have to raise the ship, So they take Material from a hot air balloon ( that some how got to the Island as well ) and put in the hull of the ship and pumped air into it this pushed the water out and gave the ship flotation again.

Now BP ran a pipe down with the help of deep submersibles and slid a pipe inside the broken pipe hoping it would be able to draw some of the oil up the pipe, Why couldn’t they run that pipe down there again with some kind of heavy material. that would be able to be filled, with air-pressure making a pressure cork so to speak, like the rubber stopper you would put into a bottle, this would stop the leak temporarily giving them time to find the final solutions. You know if it happened in the movies they would be able to stop the leak in the 1:30 min.

We sent people to the moon, we have a space station that people are living in out in space. this is a leak in a pipe that is destroying our ocean. Some one out there right now has the answer. Mine sounds silly but its a Idea. What is your Idea. Maybe the person with the one that will stop this leak is reading it right now, so post your Idea Let’s get this leak stopped.

Just watched the news about a lady getting her college ring back after 25 years by another women finding it in the sewage system, if this can happen the leak should be able to be stopped much faster put your thinking caps on find the answer.

On this Mamorial Day

A Sailor Retires

A Sailor retires from the Navy after 26 years, in the navy, his wife watches as they pipe him ashore for the last time, a tradition that has been used since the 1700. that would signal a retiring sailor was leaving the Ship

Piping Ashore

These days the “Piping Ashore” is reserved for both officers and enlisted men who have completed a career serving their country in the highest traditions of the Naval Service. There are no `baskets” involved in today’s updated Piping Ashore” ceremony. Now the retiree passes by the “Sideboys,” who salute as the Bos’n Mate Pipes him ashore… Traditionally the retiree requests permission to “go ashore” for the last time symbolizing then end of a naval career.

Pinning of a Naval CPO

My piping ashore

Ceremonies and Traditions are a big part of the Military from advancements of Enlisted persons, the Pinning of a Chief Petty Officer.
These ceremonies instill pride in those who achieved the right to be Pinned as a United States Navy Chief Petty Officer. Pride Courage Commitment, Core values, exemplified admiration from junior sailors as friends they have grown with in their service are now in a leadership who’s position is appointed by the President of the United States. and can only be revoked by the President’s hand.

Another ceremony is that of Retirement as a Sailor ends his career his Military service is recognized by those that have served with and beside him, usually give what is called a shadow box that depicts the sailors career from the time he entered into the service until retiring, in this box you would find all the rating badges of rank, Medals he/she was awarded during their time in service and folded in the traditional triangle with star’s visible, Our nations Flag that was flown over the monument or place of the retirees choice, (Mine was flown over the USS Arizona by my request) documented by the Department of the navy with official letter that accompanies the Flag.

This is a cherished reminder and proud symbol of Military Service to be proudly displayed by the service member. The retirement ceremony is shared by not only persons of the service members Unit, or Command but also family members, friends, distinguished guest invited by the service member, The spouse of the service member is also recognized for her dedicated service to the member..

The Sailor or Marine making his journey from Military to Civilian life, is given another flag to fly over his home which is presented during the Flag ceremony. with the following presentation
Another Tradition for those that served who have passed is the last one that a proud service member will be a part of but when performed for him he will not see. That is the one when it is placed over the coffin he may lie in and his fellow service members fold and present to those that loved him. with the following words, On Behalf of a proud and grateful nation It is my honor to present to you this Flag of the United States of America may it be a Symbol of your loved one’s distinguished Service, to his/her county.

On this Memorial day Let us remember the Men and Women that gave their lives. to keep us and those we Love

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