Kenneth Kopp

Gallery: Wet: ScooterMania!

Nothing feels more like flying than buzzing along on a Dive Propulson Vehicle (we call them scooters.) 

Weighing less than 40 pounds on land, they are weightless in the water and pull us along at about 3-times as fast as a diver can kick. 

The freedom, the acrobatics, the FUN. There is nothing quite like it. 

  • At the end of the dive, I asked Claudette to improv a dance with her scooter.
  • {quote}Monkey Diving{quote} involves taking the large, heavy tank off your back and using a smaller, lighter one slung at your side.
  • Blasting along in the crystal-clear, warm water of a Bonaire Reef.
  • On the ascent, with everyone else below us, Claudette plays in their bubbles,
  • Scootering among the late season schools of Jack Mackerel in the clear waters of Catalina Island.
  • In about 8 feet of water, she drops in and zooms by me.  That's the famous Casino building on the left.
  • During a shallow dive, a sea lion comes over to engage and play with a diver.  The scooter makes the diver faster and more nimble in the water.
  • Jaye getting her scoot on over the white sand in the clear shallow water of Bonaire.
  • I handed my scooter to Claudette, then it just got silly...
  • Holding a stop in the clear water at Catalina on a warm fall day.
  • At about 90 feet, joy and skill meets a school of Blacksmith.  Upside-down.
  • The sun lights up the green water below the rig at about 120 feet.
  • With a smaller tank slung at your side, you are more streamlined and less rigid in the water.
  • Claudette blasts over me as I look up the pillars from about 100 feet.
  • I buried myself in a sandy hole and had Jaye scooter inches over my head on this clear Bonaire reef.
  • Claudette on the ascent back to the boat.
  • Scootering in the dense SoCal kelp.
  • Claudette clowning around in mid-water.
  • A beautiful bright day, descending into a deep canyon on rugged San Clemente Island.
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