Summer may be wrapping up, but things are just heating up at Dive With Frank. ☀️💦 Over the past few months, we’ve been racking up pool time, building skills, and transforming curious adventurers into...
🧟♂️ Something Lurks Beneath the Surface… Zombie Apocalypse Diver — Saturday, October 25, 2025 It started with strange bubbles rising from the deep. A lone fin. A muffled groan echoing through the water. Divers...
Sunday, August 3rd found me back at Lake Hydra—which, if you’ve been around long enough, you still reflexively call Dutch Springs (and probably always will, no matter what the sign says). I don’t get...
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Winter may be here, but that doesn’t mean you can’t keep those scuba skills sharp.
Several classes can be taken over the winter without even getting into the water.
Today is a pretty great anniversary for me. This is the 10th anniversary since the day I completed my PADI Discover Scuba Diving Experience back in Palmdale, California on May 3rd, 2010. In the last ten years...
If you are a certified scuba diver you should stop reading this right now and call your BEST FRIEND whom you’d like to make your new dive buddy….and ask them to read this with...
Sharks have a public-relations problem. Decades of movies, headlines, and very dramatic music have done a pretty good job convincing people that sharks are the thing we need to be afraid of in the...
A good dive buddy pays attention to the diver beside them. That sounds obvious, but not every diver moves through the water, handles equipment, communicates, enters the water, or solves problems in exactly the...
Good instructors teach the student in front of them. That sounds simple until the way you normally demonstrate a skill, conduct an entry, configure equipment, or organize a dive does not work particularly well...
This weekend Dive With Frank finished off summer with a weekend chock full of diving! This also happened to be the weekend that the PADI Instructor Examination was going on, so I was able...
Last weekend (June 29-30th, 2019) by the numbers: 5 new PADI Open Water Divers 7 new PADI Advanced Open Water Divers 2 DMiTs (Divemasters in training) 4 fun divers 9 Open Water Dives 19 dinner...
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Last weekend DWF got to teach two classes to expand my students’ skills envelope. On Saturday (a Divemaster), fresh off last weekend’s Zombie Apocalypse Diver class, decided to take his self-reliant skills as well...
As summer continued to cool down DWF had a weekend jam packed with all sorts of scuba awesomeness, including a PADI Zombie Apocalypse Diver (ZAD) class and bringing three brand spankin’ new PADI Open...
The summer of 2018 and my exploration of our new quarry, Juturna Springs continued this weekend DWF got to run his first PADI Advanced Open Water class there. I’ve the last month or so...
September 24 – October 4, 2026
Sun. Salt. Soft coral walls. The South Pacific done right.
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April 24 – May 1, 2027
Warm water. Caribbean reefs. Easy diving. Big adventure energy.
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Three trips. Plenty of teeth.
One heck of a season.
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