The evolution of Blogrush

Blogrush is an interesting concept.
The only thing, though, is that I keep getting links to golfing and fishing blogs even though I am listed in the diving category.

I guess there aren't enough diving blogs out there to serve up diving related blogs.

As for me, I will put in more time on my blog in the coming weeks to keep it updated, fresh, interesting, humorous and informative as only I can :-)

Pumpkin dive

On Saturday, October 28th, I went to the pumpkin dive organized by PlongeeXL .

Here are some of the sights, click on any photo to see it full size :

I've passed the Blogrush test Yippeee!

Here's the email I received:

"You are receiving this update because your blog has passed our strict
Quality Guidelines and criteria -- we believe you have a high-quality
blog and we are happy you're a member of our network!

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10,000+ Blogs Removed From BlogRush"



Some Internet marketers and hackers are always trying to spoof whatever new service being offered. Blogrush was no exception.

The idea behind blogrush is that it allows for communication between Blogs covering similar topics. By linking to more blogs, search engine ranking goes up. So, Internet marketers, eager to move up the search engine ranking, create tons of automatically generated bullshit blogs just to get the keywords, and have the blogrush gizmo link to a ton of blogs and hopefully increase their rankings.

At great expense, the founders of blogrush had to hire human checkers to verify for content quality and remove over 10,000 phony blogs.

That should remove the chaff and keep the wheat and give a better experience to readers of blogs.

Although I am not regularly updating my blog, I try to add relevant content.

I should have more to say this winter as I will be in the Caribbeans all winter long :-)

Ramping up for Dominican Republic

I will spend next winter in the Dominican Republic.
I will explore new diving locations, caves, wrecks, coral reefs, etc...

While there, I will also make short trips to neighboring islands such as puerto rico, US and British virgin Islands, Turks & Caicos, and more.

Trying Blog Rush

I am testing Blogrush , this new service shares posts with other Blogrush members.

Give it a try.

Grand opening of plongée XL

My good friend Michel Labrecque has just opened a scuba diving store in an area of the province of Quebec that where it was ssorely missing, in the small town of Victoriaville. Beforehand, divers had to travel all the way to Montreal or Quebec city to find the services they were looking for.

According to Jonathan, the official Aqualung sales representative for eastern Canada, it is the nicest dive shop he's seen in the entire province. Indeed, the product layout, the lighting, the colors, etc... are these details are well thought out and create a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling when visiting the boutique.

Knowing my friend, only the top quality equipment is to be found. Even the rental gear is of a better quality than what can be found in other dive shops. Just the classroom with its 6 rescue class mannequins is worth the visit. ;-)

I've known Michel for a few years now and I can tell you he's very particular about safety and quality, I guess his military background shows there. So you can expect top notch service as well as top notch scuba training from PADI, tec rec, DAN. His dive shop is one of the few that is authorized to teach scuba diving to handicapped by way of the Hadicapped Scuba Association.

Of course, what makes the classes and the overall activities so wonderful is that I am part of the instructors and divemaster team. So for that reason, you can be assured that you will get the best rescue diver course in the world because I make an excellent victim :-)

The fabulous Lockheed