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

What type of diver are you ?

I have received this link from a fellow scuba diver.

It seems I am of the "tekkie" with a dash of'"adrenalin" and maybe a touch of "jinx".

Even zombies love scuba diving

In this amazing video, we see a zombie attack a shark!

The secret to my dives in cold water

I am the king of cold water diving:
Scuba 35 minutes in a wetsuit in 30 F water (-1C)
Ice scubadiving in a Bare artic wetsuit (7 + 7)

One of the reasons I am so tough is that I train myself. In the winter time, my thermostat is set at 65 F (16C). I haven't zipped up a winter jacket in decades. My showers are in lukewarm water.

Recetly, I have found why I may be more tolerant to cold. My fat percentage is 20.4%. In a male, fat is set between 10-20%. I should therefore reduce my body fat by 5-7%.

Over the years, my body has found a way to protect me against cold by building a layer of fat. Now, I am curious to find out if, by reducing my fat content, my tolerance to cold will diminish.

I will now raise my thermostat a few degrees, wear thicker underwear and dive in a dry to see if my body will reduce its fat content when it no longer is stressed out by the cold.

My beautiful bottom timer

It is in fact a diving watch but I will eventually be using it as a bottom timer for my tech dives and as my main dive computer for my more leisurely dives.

It is Citizen's anniversary model, the "Eco drive" model JV0030-01E.

Doesn't it look real pretty on my wrist ?

This is the english version of my Scuba Blog

The original french version of this scuba diving blog can be found here