Built in 1944, this is a US Admiral-class minesweeper, originally known as the USS Scuffle before it was sold to Mexico. The Felipe Xicoténcatl, or
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Cozumel Diving
With the weather in Seattle being cold, dark and dreary, we escaped to the warm waters of Cozumel, Mexico for a week. The air was
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Monterey
Monterey Road Trip The Thanksgiving week allowed our friends to skip out from work, so we decided to do something a little different… we packed
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Voyageurs National Park
Voyageurs National Park, in Minnesota, was established in 1975, to preserve the waterways that were one of the most important segments of the fur trade route
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Detroit Lakes Our first stop in Minnesota was an overnighter in Detroit Lakes. One of our business customers graciously offered to take us out lake
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
After a quick overnight in Deer Lodge, Montana, our road trip began in earnest in North Dakota at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. President Truman
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Canon S110
The Canon S110 is a super compact, 12 MP point-n-shoot, with quick focusing and a full manual mode for underwater photography. A quick google search
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Canon G12
About the time I was starting to experiment with underwater photography, Julie had a Canon G12, one of their higher end compact cameras (at the
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Canon SD870 IS
The SD870 IS was my third point-n-shoot from Canon’s PowerShot line of compact cameras. It had a nice little wide angle lens, optical zoom and
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Underwater Photo Gear
My interest in underwater photography coincided with Julie and I starting to dive again in 2009. After an 8 year hiatus, we traveled to the
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