Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Alachua (Global Adventures): Alachua County was named by the Indians for its natural features and some believe that Alachua is the Indian name for sinkhole. So perhaps rightfully, the sinkhole next to I75s exit 399 has been called Alachua Sink. Sheck Exley and Court Smith are some of the first known explorers of the sink. [...]

Victoria (Global Adventures): British Columbia is one of the top rated diving destinations in North America. Canada’s westernmost Province has a coastline that stretches for more than 17,000 miles (27,000 kilometers), and includes deep, mountainous fjords and about six thousand islands, most of which are uninhabited. The Coastal Mountains and the Inside Passage's many inlets [...]

Key West (Global Adventures): For divers who like deep wrecks, the USS Wilkes-Barre is certainly worth considering. The former Navy Cruiser is split in half and sits 13.5 miles southwest of Summerland Key, Florida. Named after the city of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, the ship served during the last year of the Second World War in the [...]

Luraville (Global Adventures): Peacock Springs State Park has two major springs, a spring run and six sinkholes - all in near pristine condition. Cave divers have explored and surveyed nearly 33,000 feet of underwater passages, making Peacock one of the longest underwater cave systems in the continental United States. Other interesting sinks in the system [...]

Atlanta (Global Adventures): To technical divers, the “SS Andrea Doria” is something like the Mount Everest, something most like to dive at least once, and something many experienced divers did only dive once. The Andrea Doria still is a true graveyard in the Atlantic Ocean decades after its sinking in 1956. Named after the 16th-century [...]

Florida (Global Adventures): To most, Florida is known for its sunshine, entertainment, and subtropical vegetation. Much of the state is situated on a peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Straits of Florida. Spanning two time zones, it extends to the northwest into the panhandle along the northern Gulf of Mexico. [...]