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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanSep 17, 09 Comments Off
 Helidive Good day all! Well I’ve had a crazy fast paced day again. My day began with taking the dogs out for their morning tongue dragging session at 7:00 and by 8:00 it was so hot we were all racing back to the car! I was completely soaked from sweat and had to sit on a towel to get home, I really hate humidity! Once home I took off to do some shopping and pick up the laundry and then spent the next few hours cleaning up the house.
At noon I met Mark and his friend Jim at the World famous Dive Bus Hut www.the-dive-bus.com we loaded his truck with dive gear and put a bunch of light stuff in mine for after the dive. Mark and Jim drove to Blue Skies, home of the pretty blue helicopter you see flying every day all over Curacao and got ready to climb aboard. Yours truly went straight to the beach equipped with my mountain bike and all my camera gear. I had to ride the bike a ways to get to where the helicopter would meet me for this fun jump into the sea. Everything went pretty much as planned today, once I got my camera on the tripod and was in position I called George, (owner of Blue Skies) www.blueskieshelicopters.com and told him I was ready, we had already discussed exactly what we were going to do. It only took the helicopter a few minutes to get to where I was and just as planned he lined it up exactly how I had asked, talk about a great pilot!! George was flying and behind him was one of his helpers sitting in the middle of Mark and Jim. Once in position the divers carefully got up from their seats, climbed out onto the skids, gave each other the ok and out they went. The guy sitting in the back seat was holding both divers hands and when the ok was given he is the one that lets them go. The divers have their fins connected to their BC’s and their hands are over their masks, it looks like fun huh?? After the divers were safely floating the helicopter left and seconds later with an ok signal from mark they both disappeared underneath the aqua blue waves. I loaded up all my gear jumped on the bike and headed back down the beach to where I picked them up one hour later. So after returning them to Blue Skies where they left their truck I drove back to the Dive Bus, unloaded the wet dive gear and tanks and took off home. The first thing I had to do when I got home was wash my bike, it got a lot of salt water on it this morning! This whole event today was compliments of Niels Jorissen www.divechartercuracao.com We needed some new shots for an article that will be in an up an coming diving magazine, I will get you more info on that soon.
I need to get moving, I have to get to the airport and see if there is a lost woman from the States walking around with a ton of luggage and is in need of a ride?? Wish me luck! Barry
17-9-2009
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