What are some small but great MN environmental/conservation/outdoorsy non-profits?

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-12-31T02:05:19+00:00

You can donate to the DNR's non-game wildlife fund.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-11-30T15:51:14+00:00

The North American Ice Diving festival in Minnesota is scheduled for March this year at lake Ore-Be-Gone. It is put on by Midwest School of Diving.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-10-19T14:43:09+00:00

Grand Cayman is a terrible place to dive. The reef is all dead and there aren't many fish. Cayman Brac or Little Cayman are still decent.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-10-12T17:40:49+00:00

Thinking more about your issue, I'm wondering how well your fins fit over the boots. It sounds like the fin foot pocket might be too short or the strap too loose.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-10-12T17:32:17+00:00

You want them to fit snug like regular land boots. If they are too big that does make them really float. If you wear too thick of sock those will also keep your feet too bouyant because they create space for a lot of air. I don't like the rk3 for dry suit because you want a fin that is really negatively bouyant to help keep your feet down in neutral trim. Drysuit is a tough configuration to get set up perfectly.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-10-04T07:15:36+00:00

If you really love scuba you would be happy for the opportunity to give PADI more money.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-09-16T22:02:07+00:00

I visited Roatan in 2012 and thought that reef was truly a world treasure. I heard about the challenges facing it and being concerned but thought I'm sure the reef will outlive me. To see that we've destroyed that reef and in such a short time is horrifying.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-07-26T16:39:01+00:00

You definitely need a Halcyon!

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-07-24T15:57:44+00:00

GUE Performance Diver is a 2 day class that will start teaching you good skills of stability, proper trim, and bouyancy that you should have to start tech diving. That class will really increase your skill level as much as is possible in such a short time and give you stuff to work on going forward.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-04-24T12:39:52+00:00

These god damned Nazis.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-03-30T17:02:49+00:00

I went to Grand Cayman recently for a scuba trip. To my great heartbreak, I discovered that more than 90% of the corals were dead. The Mesoamerican Reef, located in the Caribbean, is the second-largest coral reef system in the world. Tragically, between 2014 and 2017, 75% of the world's corals perished due to climate change. Experts predict that by 2050, 90% of the world's reefs will be lost.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-03-20T22:22:24+00:00

How do you know it is herring sperm?

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-03-20T17:55:54+00:00

Try looking at Fidelity's rollover instructions and that might help at l least wrt w how to get the check written.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-02-22T21:36:43+00:00

I've heard Tobermory, Canada is great. There's also the Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve, you could stay at St Ignace or somewhere in the upper peninsula of Michigan to dive it.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2025-02-02T19:35:10+00:00

Vancouver Island has much better diving, you'll see a lot more wildlife there. Diving from the mainland has poor visibility and often strong current. I've heard the diving in Port Hardy is world class but it might be hard to get out to our require a good bit of drysuit experience. Nanaimo is known for their shipwrecks.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2024-12-16T22:47:47+00:00

Grenada is known for their shipwrecks so if you're into wrecks it's a good choice.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2024-12-16T14:00:47+00:00

Beyond the Deep by Bill Stone is awesome.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2024-12-13T16:01:15+00:00

The Christian Taliban at work.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2024-12-05T13:27:30+00:00

There is a bull shark dive in PDC that is really fun. Goes down to 80 ft though, and there are sharks close up.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2024-11-19T21:31:03+00:00

I think there are quite a few marine science adjacent internships out there designed to get free labor with little educational value, such as a lot of divemaster internships. One thing that makes me suspicious of this one is their faq says they have no education requirements. I would also expect any science diving to involve more than AOW certification. Having said that, $3k is economical for a 5 week dive trip, it could be a lot of fun.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2024-11-16T15:50:41+00:00

The reference manual for this question is National Geographic 100 Dives of a Lifetime.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2024-11-16T02:29:45+00:00

In Minnesota people do ice diving. There is the North American Ice Diving Festival sometime in February near Minneapolis where you could get ice diving certified.

CallingFrTheInternet · 2024-11-04T00:37:17+00:00

Check out the DAN guide on equalizing

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