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LATEST NEWS @ THE DIVE LOCKER

8/30/10 - Probably our last Nauset Ledge Dive trip was done yesterday ~ not bad, no complaints, but not the massive number of lobsters we are accustomed to seeing (only 7 lobsters per diver!) Good whale show though! No St.Lawrence Seaway trip this year! Lots of Pinthis and Port Hunter wreck trips on the weekends of September and October! Great diving conditions all thru the Fall! Come join us on a trip!

8/23/2010 - Well...it's about over and the tourists are almost out of here! But, hey! We are still diving all the way thru October on the charter boat and we will have our Sunday Morning Shore Dives all year round! Just a reminder: we will be closing the store for a week in late Sept ~ early Oct (9/24 - 10/3).

8/10/10 - The 2010 Picnic went about as perfect as we could have hoped for ~ Weather was great, water was clearer than expected (a little cold), 4 dive stores participated, and about 200 people/divers/guests!

7/27/2010 - Outstanding weather for diving this year!! If you haven't been out this year ~ you can't blame the weather! Only one trip cancelled, and one delayed 24hrs for FOG! The lobsters have been equal to or better than last year! Classes are also going well. Reminder: Our Annual Beach Dive/Picnic will be held August 8th at Sandwich Town Beach. 4 Stores will be participating! Reserve your gear early!

6/29/2010 - Happy 4th of July weekend everyone! Have a safe holiday!

6/21/10 - We finally conducted a charter boat trip to a shipwreck! Up to now, there has been only one "class/instruction" charter and TEN (10) charters to the RACE for lobsters! All very successful mind you, but it's now wreck dive season! Oh yeah, the wreck divers on Sunday collected about 20 lobsters as well! The season is in full swing and it's still only two weeks until the 4th of July! WE HAVEN'T EVEN DONE THE BEST LOBSTER DIVE IN THE WORLD YET!! The weather has been cooperating, the lobsters are in, temperatures are reasonable, and visibility is pretty good! Lets Go Diving!

6/1/2010 - The Lobsters were plentiful this last weekend off Provincetown's RACE dive!! Over 200 were captured by the four (4) FULL charters on the four (4) straight good weather (make that: perfect weather) days this last Memorial Day Weekend! No one I've talked to has seen 4 straight good charter days on Cape Cod EVER! Thanks to Captain Billy and DiveMaster Jerry, The Dive Locker's "Cape Diver" had a fantastic weekend of Dives! We have several more charters planned for the RACE this year and "by the way" we also do wreck dives! Yes, that's right! Wreck Dives!!

5/17/2010 - The Lobsters are in at The RACE dive in P-Town! We did our first charter to the RACE on Sunday May 16th! The rest of the trips to the RACE are nearly full ~ get on the list now! We also certified 6 more divers at Hathaway Pond on the 16th! Advanced Open Water Class starts this Thursday!

4/29/10 - Dive Season starts on Saturday morning!!!! We have several students getting their Open Water Certification this weekend, as well as a TDI "tech" class beginning on Sunday!! The Charters will begin on the 8th, the Lobsters should be here mid-month, and oddly enough ~ it actually "feels" like Spring outside!! All divers are welcome to join us for the dives at Hathaway Pond this weekend. We have heard about a new platform in the pond and it should be just off the wreck in 38'-40' of water (perfect for tek dive training). We have Don Ferris' book in stock both in hardcover and now it's new paperback version ($39.95).

3/30/10 - The Official Start to the Dive Season 2010 is just about here! The winds/storms have probably opened up some incredible diving off Cape Cod, join us for some wreck discoveries! Try out the new On-Line SDI Nitrox Diver Course! There are only a few spots left for charters to the Race on Memorial Day Weekend. There are also only a few spots left in Jerry/Jodi's TDI Advanced Classes! We will be holding a large refresher dive at Hathaway Pond on the 24th of April ~ All are welcome. Last year we had nearly a dozen divers that went! They tried pony bottles, steel tanks, they practiced skills, and had a great dive to get ready for the season ahead ~ don't miss it this year!

2/16/10 - Our Ice Diver Class went very well. 5 Divers are newly certified in ICE Diving. Check out the pictures.

2/2/2010 - One month down, just a few more to go to the Dive Season of 2010! The boat charter schedule will be out next month! Ice Diver Class this Weekend!

1/25/10 - There will be no traditional Boston Sea Rovers Dive Show in 2010. They will still have a night of speakers on March 6th and tickets are still available! Our ice dive course has been moved up to the 31st ~ weather permitting! This is the time of year to bring in your equipment for it's yearly service! Remember: It's always Dive Season if you have a Dry Suit!!!

1/7/10 - Happy New Year Divers! We started the new year out with a great New Year's Day Dive at Hathaway Pond! A dozen or so divers braved the icy waters, some in wetsuits! We will be having an Ice Diver Course this winter ~ stay tuned for class dates and dives! We will still dive at Garbage Beach a couple of times per month over the winter! And as always, we'll partner up with the Cape Dive Club for a booth in the Boston Sea Rovers dive show in March!

12/7/09 - Ok, it's officially winter. The water temperature in Woods Hole finally went below 50 degrees. The Sunday Morning Shore Dive on the 6th was not nice! 48 degrees and less than 3' visibility! Ouch . We still have plenty of rental gear left over from the Annual Sale! Don Ferris' Book "Cape Cod's Anthology of Shipwrecks" is now in the store for sale!! This book will be sold out fast and there are only a few copies to be had ~ Hurry! $55.00, and trust me when you see this book that it's a bargain at $80.00!!

12/1/09 - Happy Holidays! Merry Christmas! Seasons Greetings! Let the shopping begin! Our Rental Gear Sale was successful, but we have plenty left over! Lots of BC's, Regs, Octos, the works! These items will be on sale until the end of December! As for diving...the Garbage Beach Dive is still the most popular site with temps still in the 50's. Eric said the visibility was very low last Sunday, but it usually gets better each week thru December! Hope to see you with us on one of the Sunday Morning Shore Dives!

11/24/09 - Happy Thanksgiving! It's that time of year ~ Annual Rental Gear Sale time!! This Saturday we will again sell all of our rental gear from the year before! All gear used in 2009, with the exception of HP Steel tanks and lead, will be on sale starting at 9:00am Nov. 28th until Dec. 31, 2009. After that, it will go back on to the rental inventory for the 2010 Dive Season. This is a great opportunity to get that pony reg, spare octo, back-up computer, or extra wetsuit! Hope to see ya there!

11/11/09 - Great weather will NOT be the theme of the 2009 Dive Season! We had one of the worst weather seasons on record, BUT we had the BEST lobster year EVER! We have put the boat away for the year, but we're still doing shore dives every Sunday (weather depending). Things to look forward to before next season: Rental Gear Sale- Nov.28th, New Year's Day Dive, Dive Club events/meetings/prom, Boston Sea Rovers, Beneath The Sea, ICE Dives, First Dives of Spring, etc. ~ A great winter ahead!
** A special thanks to the divers who kept diving this season! In this bad economy, we had a pretty good year (we're still here!!), and those who took classes, went on Sunday shore dives and Charter Dives, and attended dive club meetings ~~THANK YOU! YOU make this all possible!

10-6-09 ..Sunday morning shore dives are still going strong. Last Sunday we dove at Garbage Beach in Woods Hole. 64 degrees, tropical fish, a juvenile toad fish, loads of striper and tautog, some cool artifacts...all in all we should have been out on the charter boat, but the shore dive was fantastic!!

9-16-09 The water is cooling off and the visibility is getting better. There is a small window of dive opportunity between now and the really cold conditions that you should take full advantage. The wreck dives to the Port Hunter during late Sept and early Oct are very nice. It's still wetsuit temperature and the viz has doubled and some days - tripled! Granted, that's 15' or so on a good day, but loads of stripers and tautogs with the occaisional tropical fish! Hope to see ya out there!

Take advantage of the '09 Pricing while it lasts! Items/Service Prices will be going up in 2010! All Tanks, Air Fills, Instruction, Rentals, and Labor will be going up slightly for the new year. Example: Steel HP 120's are now $390 (The same as Leisure Pro!!!), Air Fills in Boston are in the $8-$10 range! We will be $6.00. Rentals will go up slightly as is the price for Learning to Dive! Lock in the price of an Open Water Diver Course by paying in '09! Sorry, I gotta pay rent too!

9-1-09 = WOW! What a Summer! Both days! .....OK, We all joked about the poor weather conditions that made for a very short Summer. But all in all, we had a great diving season! We had a good number of students, TONS of Lobsters (again, BEST year EVER), encounters with whales, two near-miss "hurricanes" (haha), and pretty good conditions overall (warmer waters, good visibility, etc.). So..... We are still charter boat diving 'til the end of October! We dive all year round - so join us on a Sunday Morning Shore Dive! We still offer classes throughout the year, including some new ones in the "tech" area (see Jerry and/or Jodi). The Dive Club always has great speakers and they do shore dives of their own!

7-30-09 - What more can we say about how the Lobster diving has been? What words are left to describe it? THE single best lobster diving year EVER!!! What are you waiting for? Get on board! The new site is out in the area of the Nauset Barges, in about 70 feet! Our last trip was greeted with a small pod of Minke Whales (nope, none swam with us), glass calm waters (1-2 foot seas), comfortable water temps (54 degrees), good visibility (25'), and, of course, TONS of lobsters ~ we were all sick of seeing all those 5-6 pounders! Oh! we have a new rule on the boat - [NO TROPHY LOBSTERS] ! You may bring up a 10+ pounder for photo purposes only! Yes, there were MANY trophy bugs that day!

7/20/09 - Since we couldn't get a Dive Charter together last weekend, the divemasters decided to try their luck with a new dive site. Turns out a Minke Whale decided to go to the same spot! For over an hour, a full sized Minke whale dove by, circled, and stared at the divers! Here are the pictures!!!
Anyone want to go diving next weekend???

7/6/09 - The Lobsters are in at every dive site that we're currently diving! The Race (of course, 350 bugs in 7 trips!!), Monomoy wrecks, Manomet Ledge, Sandwich Beach, and even the Barges! Visibility on the wrecks off Monomoy is great ~ 40+ feet! Temps on the Barges dives are 4-6 degrees warmer than usual! Artifacts are aplenty!
in other words.....Lets Go Diving! It won't get much better than this!!
Take a look at Dave's latest pics from last weekend!

6/15/09 - Nothing new to report on the UNBELIEVEABLE diving being done off the wall in Provincetown ~ Simply Fabulous! Couldn't be any better conditions and/or numbers of lobsters!! Everyone this year has been raving about the RACE! As for the other spots, well, no charters to those spots (can't pry divers off the wall in P-Town to go do a wreck). Those other spots have been great though! The water temps on the Nauset Barges was 46! That's almost hot compared to what it normally is! And a tremendous Whale Show as well!
ALSO*** We will schedule the RACE again! Just call so that we can change the schedule from wrecks to the wall!
ALSO*** We have NO changes for lobster diving regulations for 2009!!!

5/29/09 - Well Folks, the lobstering has been FANTASTIC on the RACE drift dive in Provincetown. We expect lobsters to be there for about another full week and a half - Which is usually the time they start being caught on Sandwich/Plymouth beaches and off the Monomoy Wrecks! Great water temps! Good visibility! Plenty of spaces left on these dives and you can always leave your name on the standby list! Hope to see you out there!
ALSO*** We have one of the Enviornmental Police Officers coming into the store on June 9th to answer questions about any new lobster laws, scallop regulations, fishing, etc. Tuesday, June 9th, 6pm! All are welcome

5/18/09 - We have 7 new certified divers as of today! 3 this last weekend and 4 more on the 2-3rd of May! Seven (7) new Nitrox Divers and Five (5) new Drysuit Divers as well ! The water temps in Hathaway Pond were 63 on the surface and 52 past the thermocline. We have reports of 50-52 at the Sandwich and Garbage Beach dives. If the boat doesn't go out on Sunday morning, we'll be conducting a shore dive at Sandwich Beach! Stay Tuned!

5/07/09 - We're back! The website was down for a couple of weeks, but we are back up and running! Charters are scheduled and running! Classes are filling up! And sales are about average for the month of May! Thanks for everyone's support and enthusiasm! Hope to see you out there real soon!

3/16/09 - The Boston Sea Rovers was a great show for 2009! More people/divers showed up than last year. We handed out the newest Charter Boat Schedule, promoted our new TDI Technical Diving courses to be offered this Summer, and of course got to hang out with all the divers from New England who are as excited about the upcoming Dive Season of 2009 as we are!
We are having our first dive of Spring '09 this coming Sunday at Garbage Beach. We are now an SDI/TDI Training Facility!
And at some point this month, we'll uncover the boat and start getting it ready for the warmer months ahead!! I can't wait!

2/1/09 - At least two dozen people came out to see 8 divers plunge below the 8" of Ice over Hathaway Pond! Check out my pictures (surface only) AND Bryan's Ice Dive Video that he just posted on YouTube. We also have some Underwater Photos that Dave Wood just took. Also see the story and photos in the Cape Cod Times as well as their on-line story and pictures.The weather should allow us to dive under the ice for at least another month or so. See ya next Sunday!

1/5/09 - Well 2009 is here! Happy New Year! First of all: our New Year's Day Dive was cancelled due to some extreme weather conditions. There were 3 divers who decided to venture out anyway, but we deferred to another day where the winds and air temps are more reasonable. We can still teach several classes over the winter months that require no dives: Nitrox, Equipment Specialty, etc. and there's always a refresher course, u/w photography, ice, drysuit, etc. for those who only want a pool session or those who can brave the elements and dive in winter on Cape Cod. The Cape Dive Club still has monthly meetings with some great speakers and the annual dive show in Boston {Sea Rovers} is always a great weekend of dive entertainment!

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Gary Gentile's Newest Books are in the Store!
We have the "Shipwrecks of Massachusetts: North"
The Advanced Wreck Diving Handbook and Shadow Divers Exposed
I only have a few copies right now, but I will be ordering many more as come available to me. We also have several of his other books such as the very popular "SHIPWRECKS OF MASSACHUSETTS: SOUTH"

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**SSI has a new set of Diver Specialties.
Advanced Nitrox/Technical Foundations
Decompression Procedures,
Normoxic Trimix, and
Advanced Decompression Procedures
Stay tuned for further details as to what classes that we'll teach/offer! Since some of these specialties can have training dives to 180' and we live on Cape Cod, some of these may be difficult to teach/offer.
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