Fargo-Moorhead Dive News
Fargo-Moorhead
Dive News
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Fargo-Moorhead area dive
shops and scuba divers
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Scroll down (or click on the links) for a list of regional dive shops in the Fargo, North Dakota / Moorhead, Minnesota area (plus extending to Bismarck, ND, Duluth and Twin Cities, MN, western Wisconsin, and Kenora, Ontario), the current dive photo, or diving links & references
by Jim Grier
Photo changed 25 July 2007
(Remainder of page last updated 25 July 2007)
This web page may be used year-round for checking weather conditions at Fargo-Moorhead, reference to miscellaneous links, contacting dive shops, or viewing the current dive photo. This page is mostly a reference site with occasional changes of the dive photo. See the links to various dive shops or contact them directly to find out what is going on with them.
Dive safely, often, and have fun!
Jim
DIVE PHOTO
Inland cisco, or tullibee, photographed (by Jim Grier) below a dam on the Otter Tail River, Minnesota, in very fast, rushing water during the middle of winter. In addition to the turbulent water, the tullibees themselves were dashing around rapidly. It took three or four dives and at least two rolls of film (prior to my getting a digital camera!) before I got this picture.
(For the photo archive, of past DPs, click here.)
Dive Photos are pictures submitted by / solicited from divers around Fargo-Moorhead or anywhere in the world and can involve diving anywhere in the world -- if interested, please contact me and/or submit pictures as jpg files to me via e-mail. Many thanks to all who send them in. When I don't have one from someone else, I'll post one of my own.
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LINKS & REFERENCES
Deep stops and "half-depth stopping" (as opposed to simple, shallow "safety stops"):
- an article by one of the first persons to be involved with deep stops, Richard L. Pyle: click here
- overview and recommendations on scubadiving.com: click here
- review of a major study; the review is in two parts: 1, 2.
and also see the updated article from DAN on the subject, with great information (particularly scroll down
to the section "Haldane versus Hill: A Snapshot")Bends from shallow dives: click here
Why you should NOT go back down for a shallow dive or free diving after a regular dive: click here
Reports on my independent fin testing:
Improving your style: Two common problems of new divers
Ice-diving References/links:
Dive-time planning?! ... a review and comparison of different dive tables and outcomes
DIR ("Doing It Right") diving:
- introduction by Jarrod Jablonski
- home page for Global Underwater Explorers' (GUE): click here
A web site for Minnesota (and other interested) divers: Minnesota Scuba Group
Scuba Diving's online site -- click on the following links for their:
(Note: my user-name on D2D is "Lepomis" [the generic name for sunfish].
For a list of links to my other articles published there, click here,
or, for my current D2D member profile, click here
(for previous, old D2D profile, as of sometime around 2005, click here).
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Fargo - Moorhead Area Dive Shops: (click on logo for link to the shop)
420 South 21st St, Moorhead, MN
(218) 233-0448, (800) 285-DIVE
(PADI)1710 North 11th St, Moorhead, MN
(218) 233-6088
(SSI)
Little Floyd Lake Rd, Detroit L, MN
(218) 847-4868, (888) SCUBA-DO
(MDEA)
P.O. Box 517, Moorhead MN 56560
(218) 585-4542, (877) 785-4542 (toll free)
(701) 238-3483 (cell), (218) 585-4173 (Fax)
(PADI)
Other Dive Shops in the Surrounding Region:
(to request additional listings, contact Jim Grier)
- Scuba One (PADI), Bismarck, ND. Phone: (800) 454-3483 toll free, or (701) 667-1312. E-mail: Randy Kraft.
- Minnesota School of Diving (PADI), Brainerd, MN. Phone: (800) 657-2822 toll free, or (218) 829-5953. E-mail: Todd Matthies.
- Superior Scuba Center (PADI), Duluth, MN. Phone: business hours (218) 722-9500, after hours (218) 590-DIVE. E-mail: Jay Hanson.
- Tall Pine Divers (PADI), Virginia, MN. Phone: (218) 749-1561, Cell: (218) 290-6489.
E-mail: info.- Smith Diving (NAUI), Minneapolis, MN. Phone: (763) 574-1280. E-mail: info.
- Wazee Sports Center (PADI), Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Phone: (715) 284-5181. E-mail: Keith Cormican.
- also see: Minnesota Scuba Group.
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