{"id":1688,"date":"2011-06-25T16:33:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-25T20:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesg.net\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2011-06-28T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T21:10:56","slug":"diving-off-the-fort-lauderdale-fl-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/?p=1688","title":{"rendered":"Diving off the Fort Lauderdale, FL coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/25717381?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After a late night drive down to Fort Lauderdale, we woke up early to stop by Brownies dive shop to get my doubles filled, then headed to the dock, where we met up with Bill Mee, George Irvine, Matt Cain and Dan Volker for some recreational scooter dives.\u00a0 For our first dive, we headed out to the Goodyear reef area, a place where someone thought that dumping used tires would make for an artificial reef.\u00a0 There really weren&#8217;t many fish here, just tires in the sand, so we scootered east towards the 3rd ledge, but along the way a gear failure caused us to have to abort the dive a bit early.\u00a0 After loading back up in the boat, we headed towards the 2nd ledge so the kids could swim and snorkel.\u00a0 We grabbed our scooters and headed to the water, enjoying almost an hour of scooter free diving before heading in due to a storm.\u00a0 All in all a fun day on the water with excellent company.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1688 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/jamesg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_7374.jpg' rel=\"lightbox[1688]\"><img width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/IMG_7374-199x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" 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