SCUBA Diving in Blue Hole - Santa Rosa, NM

Sean Pearson, Brian Salter, Rod Skiver, myself, and our respective families get together for a day of diving.

Blue Hole is 81 feet deep, but at an altitude of 4,600 feet the adjusted altitude dive is 95 feet on the bottom. Blue Hole is a spring fed well in roughly a bell shape that passes approx. 3,000 gallons per minute keeping it at a consistently cool 64 degrees fahrenheit. An interesting problem Blue Hole poses to divers heading home to the West is that they'll have to pass over a mountain ridge sitting at 7,000 feet. This means divers will have to spend an appropriate amount of time in their surface interval to become at least a "C" diver before heading back.

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Me and Brian	Me and Brian	Go Brian!
Brian surfaces	They said Giant Stride you dork! Not ENORMOUS!	Spit in mask
Rinse	Dive! Dive! Dive!	Bouys holding up training platforms
Me and Brian	Nobody drowned	All of us still
My youngest, Jayden	Sean's daughter	Sean's daughter
Surf it baby!	Brian	My oldest Ashley (pink hat)
Ash tries a regulator	Ash tries a regulator	Ash tries a regulator
Ash tries a regulator	Ash tries a regulator	Ash says, "I'm done"
Me and Ash	Me and Ash	Rod - Shrek - Skiver
Tammy	Jayden watching a DVD	Jayden watching a DVD
Sean, Leif, Rod, Brian	Sean, Leif, Rod, Brian	Sean, Leif, Rod, Brian
Ash and Erik	Ash and Erik	Erik, Sean and Rod
Brian and Ash	Sean	Sean'll figure it out sometime
Is that right????	Ash, Erik, and Ashley (Brian's oldest)	Take it off! Take it off!
Jayden	IMGA0775.JPG	Rod and Sean
Melinda	Rod's famous finger	Jayden
Jayden	Jayden	Jayden cooks
Jayden cooks	Jayden cooks	Watching Nemo DVD
Go Nemo!	The girls go for a drive	Hey! Where is everybody?
Is that a booger?	Tasting the cooking	More DVD with Melinda
More DVD with Melinda	More DVD with Melinda	More DVD with Melinda
I got McDonalds!