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Now is the time to take your camera system out of mothballs and get it ready for the spring and summer dive seasons. I can’t stress enough how important it is to thoroughly check your system before you go diving.
If you are planning a vacation, do this check at least three weeks before. If you need servicing or new parts or accessories, you must allow enough time for the work to be performed or the parts delivered.
Checking your photo system isn’t all you need to do. If you haven’t been diving for a while, it’s a smart idea to get your life support systems checked. Most manufacturers recommend an annual checkup and/or overhaul of your regulator, alternate air, and BCD. Joe Liburdi’s Dive & Photo services all makes and models of support dive gear. We have five working days turn around on all repairs. Now through May 1st, we are offering 10% off all service and repairs.
The new Black Ice is on the cutting-edge of dry suit technology, being the world's first Merino Lined Dry Suit. Combining the warmth, flexibility, and durability of thermo compressed neoprene with moisture controlling Merino, it enables comfortable diving in the most extreme conditions.
Completely constructed from 7mm neoprene compressed to 4mm for tremendous insulation, flexibility and durability • 100% lined with Pinnacle's patented Merino lining • Front entry design • 1mm nylon zipper flap with #10 YKK zipper is standard • Neoprene neck seal for maximum warmth • Thickest grade of virgin latex wrist seals available • Pocket on each leg comes complete with drain grommet, webbing loops, and shock cord • Kevlar knee pads over neoprene material are protective and durable, yet highly flexible • Suspenders included • Low-profile inflation and exhaust valves • Merino lined neoprene socks attached with Roughskin soles • Includes deluxe dry suit bag, inflation hose, and Merino lined zippered hood.
Let me introduce you to Nauticam, a serious contender for your underwater housing business. I’ve long been partial to Sea & Sea and Ikelite, preferring their housings over other highly-regarded ones like Nexus, Aquatica and Subal, for a myriad of reasons, which is a discussion for another newsletter. Now that I’m in the retail photo business again, I have become acquainted with a relative newcomer to the underwater housing industry, Nauticam. Owner and founder Edward Lai has been in the precision mold manufacturing industry for more than 20 years and is now focusing on development and production of underwater photographic equipment.
Nauticam is a line of impressive housing systems. I have studied the product and affirm that they are very well engineered, provide easier usage than most on the market, incorporate advanced operating features, are lighter in weight than all but Ikelite, and unlike their competitors, enable use of your existing ports and strobes. Prices are competitively priced.
My first Nauticam sale was for a Nikon D90. The Nikon D90 is the first digital SLR camera with the ability to record high definition video as well as 12MP still photos, and Nauticam is the first housing vendor to bring the D90’s live view and ok/record buttons to the right handle in a single control. This allows convenient switching from still photo to live view/video mode. Very impressive. But that’s far from all…
Features and Benefits
100% Magna Flex throughout • 100% Fluid seal seams • 100% Thermo fiber interior • Vapor lock seams • Anatomically cut • Extended Super flex kneepads • Short Zip back entry • Screened graphics on shoulders • Interior key pocket • Adjustable velcro collar • Vapor lock ankle and wrist seals • Call for more info and price
DPV (Diver Propulsion Vehicle) more commonly known as underwater scooters, have been prohibitively expensive. The good news is that this no longer holds true, underwater scooters are getting more and more affordable. Prices starting at $159!
The dive industry in its pursuit of “new acquisitions” has set its sights on the Gen X generation. These 20 somethings are being courted as the future of diving. The theory is, as the present dive population ages and drops out, these young divers will mature and keep diving, traveling and spending. I recently played one of my shows for a Gen Xer. The music was Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome,” and he asked, “What’s Kodachrome?” and my hair turned black.
Anyway, if you know what Kodachrome was, and have friends who do, too, know this, they are not too old to start diving! If you’re old enough for AARP, you’re just the right age for SCUBA.
Baby Boomers are those born between 1946 and 1964. A boomer turns 50 every seven seconds. Said Alex Brylske, in Dive Training Magazine, “We’re responsible for turning it [scuba diving] from an obscure pastime of elite seagoing daredevils to a mainstream recreational activity enjoyed by whole families.”
Statistics show that growth has stagnated. If you or you know someone who has stopped diving, get back into it, find friends who are enjoying an active lifestyle and love to travel and suggest they learn to dive. They will thank you for it. And so will we.
Refer a friend who signs up for our Open Water Scuba Class, and you'll both get a $50 Gift Certificate to apply to the purchase of any Aeris product at Joe Liburdi’s Dive & Photo.
Just forward this message to your friend and ask that they bring a copy of this email with them when they sign up for the class. So tell your friends about diving, get your Gift Certificates and let's go diving!
We’re all very conscious these days about what we pack when going on a dive trip. If you’re like us, you’ve pared it down to the essentials to avoid paying those exorbitant over limit baggage fees. Add to your list of essentials zip ties and clips.
You must be able to clip, wrap, strap your dive gear. You need clips to secure your octopus and gauges so they don’t dangle and drag.
You absolutely must have a clip for your camera! Did we ever tell you about the time in Fiji when Cara and another diver were caught in a current sweeping them away from the boat and Cara asked her buddy to hold her camera while she inflated her safety sausage? Yes, you’ve guessed it. The camera hit bottom at 300 feet. Cara never dove without her camera clipped to her BC again.
You also want a clip for your dive light. Quick release lanyards are the best security and most convenient. With a lanyard you don’t have to disconnect your camera to use it. We have a variety of lanyards to choose from.
Cable ties—don’t leave home without them. You can use cable ties to secure all types of accessories, such as regulator mouthpieces, BC inflator hoses, whistles, chem. lights. compass, computers, etc, etc. Last but not least, cable ties are recommended for securing your dive bag zippers. We recommend a TSA lock for your dive bag main zipper, but the numerous other zippers don’t need TSA locks. Our Stahlsac bags have five zippers. We use the TSA lock on the main compartment and cable ties on the smaller compartments containing less important and costly items like fins or toiletries. Cable ties come in assorted lengths and thicknesses.
To download a complete list of other must-take-alongs from our website click here.
You are cordially invited by the Laguna Sea Dwellers to attend their March meeting and enjoy an evening with their speakers/entertainers Joe Liburdi and Evan Sherman. Joe will be showing his presentation called The Way I Sea It, a retrospective of images, many taken as early as 1976! Evan will be debuting his new Aquaria video, high-definition and high excitement!
| Where: | Laguna Sea Dwellers Dive Club |
| Newport Beach Tennis Club | |
| 2601 Eastbluff Drive, Newport Beach | |
| Time: | 6:30 pm |
To learn about the Laguna Sea Dwellers, please click here
It’s always a good idea to check on your departure flights before you leave home and arrivals of those you plan to pick up. Put these in your address book.
Package Includes
Round trip airfare Singapore Air LAX to Bali
Roundtrip private charter flight between Bali and Wakatobi
VIP departure lounge with snacks
7 nights Garden Bungalow accommodations, double occupancy
In-room internet service
3 boat dives daily with guide
Tanks, weights and belts
Unlimited shore diving on house reef
Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily
Beverages and snacks on boats
Village visit and BBQ feast
Overnight stay in Bali with breakfast
Singapore Transit Hotel
And much, much more!
Only 5 spaces left!
Call Cara at 949-448-0499 or Joe at 949-476-8500
Please visit Tours at www.JoeLiburdi.com/tours for details
We go every Fall because it is the best time of the year to dive one of the best destinations on earth. Only the Sea of Cortez offers an amazing dive adventure so close to home. Big animals. Big schools. Big time fun! Whale sharks in your face. Mantas close enough to touch. Sea lions dive bombing and nipping at your fins. Morays, morays, morays. Jacks and barracudas schooling. Dolphins in the wake. Giant jawfish found nowhere else. 75+ vis. 85 degree water. blue skies and calm blue seas. Exotic. Exciting. Jacques Cousteau called it "The World's Greatest Aquarium." And a mere two-hour flight from Los Angeles! We love La Paz!
5 Nights, 6 Days, 3 Days of Diving
$1079*
Includes
Accomodations at the La Concha Beach Resort
Ocean view room, double occupancy
American breakfast daily
3 –tank diving
Whale Shark Spotter plane
Box lunch, snacks and beverages on dive days
Boat guides, tanks, weights, belts
La Paz Airport\ transfers
Hotel & Diving Taxes
Gifts and Prizes
Double occupancy
Land package only. Airfare not included
Gratuities not included
Price subject to change
Monday-Friday 10 am to 6 pm
Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
Sunday Closed
Before and after hours, by appointment
Visit online at www.JLDiveandPhoto.com
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