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| Africa |
   
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19 | 3.97% |
| Australia |
  
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23 | 4.81% |
| Asia |
  
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16 | 3.35% |
| Europe |
  
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249 | 52.09% |
| North America |
  
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129 | 26.99% |
| South America |
  
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15 | 3.14% |
| Somewhere Else? |
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27 | 5.65% |
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#31
December 28th, 2002
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Belgium here,
Diving in quarries filled with green water and metal stuff that makes your compass go bonkers, or a dive trip to our lovely neighbours' waters in the north: Zeeland, the oosterschelde. Or else the North Sea (not for dummies). Anyways: choices are no viz or no viz and strong currents = adventure!!! I love it, only the Great Whites are missing.  Have fun down there, wherever you are. Lynn 
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#32
January 13th, 2003
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I'm in Louisiana, about 30 minutes from TMcKee (I'm at LSU most of the year but am at my folks' in Slidell for the holidays). The local diving is crap. Anything deeper than 1m around here is unusual. Lake Pontchartrain averages 3.7m and has a 6m shipping channel, but visibility is 1m on a good day and 10 inches more often than not. The water is gross, too. Annual beach cleanups and a spearfishing contest or two (one thing the lake DOES have is a plentiful supply of large gar, sheepshead, and redfish) are the only diving the lake sees, to my knowledge. Rig diving is supposed to be great, but it's offshore (out of my reach) and I'm not sure if anyone freedives them.
I did some freediving/snorkeling as a child when my family went to beaches in Alabama and loved it. I found my old snorkel a few days ago while doing some early packing to return to university, and now there's no turning back  I can't wait to get back into diving and try my hand at spearfishing as well.First, though, I need to lose some, er, extra buoyancy 
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#34
April 28th, 2003
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Just getting into freediving as an alternative to my cave diving. I'm hoping to improve my tech diving and maybe do some photography.
Beaver Lake in NE Arkansas has very good vis, esp near the dam, and is a great shade of blue. Anyone want to go diving? Dive safe Brock
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#35
April 28th, 2003
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Hi everybody
I'm from France but usually dive in Spain (estartit). I'm glad to see so many people from so many countries just talking about diving. Is there others people from Southern Europe around here? aude 
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#36
April 28th, 2003
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Hello from south Brazil!!!
safe dives...
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#37
May 5th, 2003
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Brazil, South Africa, Spain, etc... Some of you seem to be quite a bit of lucky given their diving areas. As for me, I probably had not had that kind of luck: Switzerland. Want a coastline, now! Well, it`s not all that bad, 7 hours by car and there`s Italy. I tend to go to Corsica every summer with clear and not-too-cold Mediterranean Sea around it... The rest of the year is pool as I never tried to do diving in a lake yet(got no suit...).
Ciao Joe
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#40
May 18th, 2003
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Kuwait....crystal clear waters all year round baby! Summer: 25 deg. Celcius (water of course), winter a brisk 5 deg. Celcius...
 not to mention tons upon tons of groupers, pomfrets andother TASTY fish!
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the Mack Daddy of Arabia- pimpin camels for a living
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#41
May 29th, 2003
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Puna, Big Island (Island of Hawaii)
No love for the Hawaiians on the poll. So that's how its going to be... 
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Aloha, Adam
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#42
May 30th, 2003
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I am a recent transplant to Tampa, Florida. Being 20 minutes from the ocean is soooooo nice. Not to mention that it's actually warm most of the year (I feel bad for the folks living in the frigid North!). I moved here from Louisville, Kentucky primarily for the proximity to the ocean and the diving. The midwest is fine......just not a lot of ocean and good diving there. ;-)
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Scot __________________________ My soul is full of longing for the secrets of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
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#43
June 4th, 2003
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I am from Sundsvall, Sweden. Middle in Sweden eastcoast.
Water is cold 11 months year, crappy visibility about 4 meters. And almost nothing to see. but i dive it anyway, i have to checkout Norweigan westcoast this summer pretty nice marine life includeng killerwhales, Some of the best other places i dive so far is... 1. Similian Islansd , Thailand. VIS up to 50M And great marine fauna 2. Zakynthos Greece, Greath temp for skindive and great marine life , som huge turtles here. 3. Skiathois Greece 4. Spain west coast.
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#44
June 18th, 2003
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Still a lot of travel to do I guess after reading this thread.
If you want to join the exact details of your freedive spots: www.freedivingspots.net I just launched this site to help everyone around the world find good places to freedive. So please add your spots to the database. And make the choice for a next vacation even harder
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#45
June 21st, 2003
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Oahu's North Shore. missing hilo bay and south point, but the warm, freindly water, and caves at sharks cove/three tables are plenty fun to peruse solo.
Definite hats off to the south african spearing types who have no problem dragging chum around in the water with em while 6-9 meter apex predators lurk in the depths  I wouldn't be able to stop thinking: "does my sillhouette really look like an anorexic, slow moving seal?"
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