Diversions Scuba

Pet peeve Friday! What are your scuba pet peeves? 👀🤿

We’re excited to share with you our Fall/Winter classes! Specialities also available based on interest 🤿

These small Caribbean fish, (1.25 inches in length), live in 25-65 feet of water on the reef with a white sand bottom. They have huge gorgeous colorful “bullseye” eyes! They use their pelvic fins to create a suction cup, allowing them to cling tightly to surfaces even in strong currents. Their diet mainly consists of small invertebrates and algae.
Anyone care to guess their name?

Last Thursday we decided to mix things up and dive into a different site at Devil’s Lake, because who needs routine when you can explore the wild southwest side of the lake? 🤪 🤿 😋

Congratulations to Stephanie, Janna, Alayna, Ken and Patrick for completing their PADI Open Water certification this past weekend! Welcome to the underwater world 🤩🤿🐠🐙

These small Caribbean fish, (four inches in length), have extremely elongated fins vertically, giving the most prominent appearance of a triangle have great camouflage and a roughened back, (which helps with the ID). They are found “walking” along on the bottom in sandy or grassy areas where they feed on small snails, crustaceans, as well as worms and occasionally small fishes. Their grumpy downturned mouths show wild red lips when they open wide!
Anyone care to guess the name?

Grab your fins and let's dive into the fun this week!

Last Saturday’s wreck dive! If you can picture yourself enjoying some beautiful water, join us on Saturday, August 24th for a two tank wreck trip out of Milwaukee. Open to Open Water divers and above. Call us at (608)441-2545 for more information or to sign up 🤿

Explore the shipwrecks of Lake Michigan with us on August, Saturday 24th.

Last weekend we dove the Appomattox wreck during an 80-minute adventure in beautifully clear waters with a comfortable temperature of 70 degrees.

Call us to secure your spot on board! 🤿

WTF?? (What’s that fish?)
Please feel free to comment or add your own photos. These small Caribbean fish can react when larger predators are nearby gathering tightly together in a formation that exposes the least number of fish. Fish species found in the open ocean are especially in need of some protection, as they don't have the cracks and crevices that fish in coastal or coral reef habitats have to hide away. Instead, they hide behind one another to form a special shape which allows for the protection of the most fish.
Anyone care to guess its name?

Ken, Alayna and Janna learned to pose with the 👌🏼 and 🤙🏼 signs - a crucial part of being a diver! 😜 We’re just teasing! They crushed their pool skills this weekend with instructor Mallory and are ready to move on to their checkout dives. Way to go! 🤿

Congrats to last weekend's students! Kim worked with Rin and Nick on their buoyancy skills during their PADI Advanced Open Water course, while Sofia helped Andrea and Andrew get comfortable diving dry for their PADI Drysuit certification before their Iceland trip.

We still have a couple spots left for this weekends charter on Saturday, August 10! It is a two tank wreck charter, open to Open Water certified divers and above 😊

Join us and enjoy some Lake Michigan dives before the end of the season! 🚢⚓️

Call us for more details or to sign up 🤿 space is limited.

Please note that August 24th and September 21st require an Advanced Open Water cert or higher.

WTF?? (What’s that fish?)
Please feel free to comment or add your own photos.
Pearl Lake near South Beloit, IL is a great place to find and photograph this week’s fish which has a long, round-body with a dark grey-brown back and sides and a light underbelly with fleshy lips located at the bottom of its head. The fish obtains its food from bottom surfaces and will eat almost anything it can, but most commonly small invertebrates, algae, and plant matter. Larger predatory fish species such as walleye and bass prey on this fish. When fully grown, it can reach lengths of 12–20 inches and weigh 2–6 lb.
Anyone care to guess the name?

Join us this Thursday, Aug 8 at 5pm, for a Devil’s Lake evening fun dive! We will be meeting by the Northeast shore at the furthest parking lot. Let us know if you plan to come 🤿

We will also be offering a PADI Delayed Surface Marker Buoy (DSMB) Diver course during the fun dive. We have limited spots, call to sign up.

Join us and enjoy some Lake Michigan dives before the end of the season! 🚢⚓️

Call us for more details or to sign up 🤿 space is limited.

Please note that August 24th and September 21st require an Advanced Open Water cert or higher.

WTF?? (What’s that fish?)
Please feel free to comment or add your own photos.
Pearl Lake near South Beloit, IL is a great place to find and photograph this week’s fish.
This fish is blue green in color on its back and sides with yellow-flecked scales, as well as yellow coloration on the sides and striking yellow-white outlining of the fins and tail. The gill covers and sides of head have broken bright blue stripes, causing some to mistakenly confuse them with bluegill as they reach only 7 inches in length and weigh in at about a pound. They live and feed near the bottom of the water feeding on whatever insects and smaller fish are nearby. Their relatively large mouth size allows them to consume larger food items than other fish their size.
Anyone care to guess their name?

Congratulations to our newest PADI Open Water divers! Instructor Sofia, along with Paige, Taylor, Kevin and Conley joined in celebrating Joe’s underwater birthday 🎂🤿 🙌🏼

Instructor Kim was with a great group of students recently in the pool! Several family and friends started their certification together or refreshed their skills; what better way to get more dives in than to have a built in dive buddy?! 😂🫶🏼🤿