Lake Wazee

[FreediveWI]

That's actually a picture of my friend, Gert, on his scooter. I have a Dacor seasprint and he has the Aeris model that you see pictured.

Scooters are great. They are awsome tools that are well worth spending the money on. For freediving they let me really extend my time at depth and cover a lot of ground very quickly- I have found more lost gear freedivng with a scooter off the Willy than I could have while on scuba. For tec-diving they allow you to move around a big wreck, like the Miwlaukee, with doubles and a couple of aluminum 80's tucked under your arm without any effort at all. ;D

For simple recreational diving they allow you to make your tank last a looong time. My father-in-law has a Gavin, the Harley Davidson of scooters, and has his whole video camera, and HID light system, mounted to it. He can shoot movies of the wrecks as he dives. He also uses it when he is scouting out new areas looking for new wrecks. If he finds something interesting, like the 10,000 year old forest he found in 40' of water off of Milwaukee, he can shoot footage of it while on the move.

I may make fun of $190 split fins and $900 computers, but a scooter is well worth the money. I have had mine for over 5 years and have used it for everthing from freediving to salvage jobs.

My freedivng buddy, Ted, was up to Wazee this past weekend and found this little guy hiding out in the weeds. I am not sure what kind of snake he is, but he certainly is bigger than the ones I have found up there in the past.

Jon