Adventure Scuba Crew 820

05/29/2026

WHAT AN ADVENTURE! I was just down there visiting all 3 Florida Key sites in April.

From sailing the Florida Keys to snorkeling coral reefs, fishing open water, paddleboarding, diving, and living aboard a sailboat, Sea Base delivers one of t...

05/27/2026

Another fun event fishing underwater with Veterans Scuba.

05/05/2026

Great event last night at Courage Kenny Golden Valley Pool.

05/05/2026

Another Great event Monday night at Courage Kenny Golden Valley pool with their Adaptive SCUBA Clinic. May 4, 2026
We had a large group of seven participants, mostly youth. I worked with a paraplegic that was paralyzed from the knees down. Evan was able to flex his thighs enough to sling his legs to propel himself underwater, so we worked on dolphin kicking and he completed laps underwater. He was so excited with himself on his accomplishments. Short blade training fins would work out for his limitations if he chooses to get SCUBA certified. Thank you Midwest School of Diving for providing the scuba equipment for the participants.

04/29/2026

Always a rewarding time volunteering at Courage Kenny’s “Adaptive SCUBA Clinic”.
Monday evening April 27th was at the Stillwater Courage Kenny, we had five participants in the pool, four needed minimal one on one assistance and one was quadriplegic needed three instructors, and he wore a full-face mask regulator system. I was assigned to an 8th grade boy with Autism that did well in the pool. Fun to see the participants with disabilities experience the freedom and independence of weightlessness in a warm-water therapy pool.
We have another Adaptive SCUBA Clinic May 4th at the Golden Valley Courage Kenny.
Thank you Midwest School of Diving for providing the participants all their scuba equipment.

03/21/2026

What a contrast from today's 75 degree weather and last Saturdays Ice Dive Festival with a 12 inch snow storm that hit the twin cities.

March 14, 2026 North American Ice Diving Festival hosted by Midwest School of Diving at Lake Ore-Be-Gone in Gilbert, MN with First Ice Freediving National Record Attempt. What a great day that started out at six below and by 8am we were on a heat wave at zero degrees with a heavy fog that rolled in. 30 degrees by noon and 34 degrees in the afternoon with a warm March sun and a slight breeze. Water temps were 37 degrees on the Huey and twin engine plane with 50 to 75 feet of visibility under the ice. We had 3 holes fut for the scuba divers with 24 inches of clear ice and on 5 by 8 foot hole for the freedivers and their counter ballast system. Being this is the First National Ice Freediving Team, the depth set this year was 20 meters.

02/22/2026

What a great event to help out in. My assigned participant was a monoplegia, and adapted quickly to the underwater environment. 🤿

02/22/2026

Looking back at June 28, 2014

BSA Venture Crew 820 BSA Sea Scout Ship Luna 336
Tall Ship Sailing & Shipwreck Diving In Lake Superior -- 5 Wrecks In One Jam-Packed Weekend
Minneapolis-based BSA Venture Crew 820 teamed up with Bayfield, Wisconsin-based BSA Sea Scout Ship Luna 336 for a weekend of sailing and scuba for eight youth and ten adults as they explored five wrecks in Lake Superior, June 2014. Sailing Master Gordon Ringberg and his youth crew from Sea Scout Ship Luna 336 trained the youth scouts from Scuba Crew 820 to rig four of the five sails on the classic two-mast Vagabond Schooner.
BSA Venture Crew 820 arrived Friday, 27 June, and the Sea Scouts hosted the crew on the Abbey Road in Pikes Bay Marina, Wisconsin. The Venture Crew loaded all their backpacks, tents for sleeping on Stockton Island and cold water dive equipment with 26 dive tanks on board the Schooner. Temperatures on Lake Superior change with the wind direction and went from 54 degrees to 44 degrees while diving on the Noquebay. The scouts were prepared for the cold diving temperatures.
“Superior Adventures” out of Bayfield, Wisconsin provided a 20 foot Aquasport, used as a tender alongside the Vagabond 52-foot Schooner “Abbey Road” to exit the water.
The youth rigged and navigated the donated schooner around the tricky Lake Superior en route to the dives sites. The five wrecks are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and offered the scouts an opportunity to learn local history and test their diving skills. The wrecks fascinated the young scouts; they were mesmerized by the size of the windlass gears as well as the rocks built into the space between the inside and outside wood hull near the stern used as ballast on the Lucerne.
Between dives, the youths piloted the ship, prepared meals, and even dealt with golf-ball size hail storm that broke three windows on the ship. The crews bonded as they successfully worked together over the weekend, learned valuable new skills and appreciation for history, and made new friends.
We want to thank Sailing Master Gordon Ringberg, Skipper Kristen Gilliland, and Committee Chair Terry Bauer and youth crew members from Sea Scout Ship 336 for hosting this event.
For more information on Lake Superior Tall Ships, Inc., and chartering out the Abbey Road, contact the ship at [email protected]

01/29/2026

Adaptive Scuba Clinics at Courage Kenny, 2026 calendar of a great program for individuals with disabilities that are 12 years and older. Come and join me and my fellow certified Handicapped Scuba Association Instructors help you experience the excitement of neutral buoyancy underwater, like floating in space like an astronaut.

12/02/2025

Scuba, Adaptive - Courage Kenny Monday December 1st underwater pictures of the event. Five participants with one on one ratio of HSA Instructors of Dive Buddies and two participants that needed two Instructors per participant based on their disability. Thank you Midwest School of Diving for supplying the scuba equipment and air tanks for the participants, and thank you Courage Kenny for hosting this incredible event at your Golden Valley Pool location.