Urban Manta

Check out Episode 42 of Dive In: the Podcast. My Nova Scotian hosts & I discuss Megalodon tooth hunting, cold water diving, tec fundamentals training and more. Check out Urban Manta on U Tube for tooth hunting, wreck diving & training vids. #DiveInPodcast #UrbanManta #MegalodonToothHunting #MegalodonTooth #TDI #WestonCollections #CaveAdventurers #OceanQuest #KissRebreathers #HollisGear @caveadventurers @oceanquestnl @kissrebreathers @westoncollections @tdidivers

Blasphemy. Backmounted sidemount ccr. #KissSidewinder

Gator Hole grim reaper cave diving warning sign in place near the start of Wes Skiles’s line. Survey map coming soon. Thanks Dan Wright for the base from the Tilly Foster Mine Project, & thanks Patrick for mounting it & Thomas for always being a big help. And of course Cave Adventurers for the support! Come take cave training with @eddsorenson & I! @caveadventurers @vitaminseadiving #CaveAdventurers #GatorHole #GrimReaperSign #CaveDiving #NSSCDS

Thanks Patrick & Thomas @caveadventurers for all the gear setup help this week! Patrick is a wiz at all things Katana 2. Stay tuned for dates for an April bbq for a new Katana 2 design feature release with @hollisdive & @caveadventurers ! #HollisKatana2 #CaveAdventurers #HollisGear #sidemount

In the wake of a strange year I’m thankful to know equipment manufacturers who produce incredibly innovative products. Hollis Katana 2 is flat as a pancake for those tight restrictions, super easy to size and custom built for the Kiss Sidewinder with ideally placed attachment points for scrubber cans. Easy & efficient. Love it! Hello 2021! @cavemoni getting her K2 & Winder all dirty #HollisGear #Katana2 #CaveAdventurers #KissRebreathers #Sidewinder #UrbanManta #CaveDiving @hollisdive @nickhollis_ @eddsorenson @caveadventurers

I had the pleasure of ending a crappy year with this ray of light on his first dive. Thanks @vitaminseadiving for the introduction! #SDI #OpenWater #CaveAdventurers #JacksonBlueSprings

Rebreathers & tanks delivered seamlessly to the dive platform at the Tilly Foster Mine Project thanks to Dan Wright & John Eells & crew. Thanks Gotham Divers for the trimix to think clearly at 230’ in 38 Deg black water. #KissRebreathers #TheHuntForRobinMurphy #38DegreeWater #OtterDrysuits #WeezleUndergarments @gothamdivers https://youtu.be/RbF4qnjZOuw

Missing the Handsome Cave Divers Association! Marianna for Halloween? @barefoot_bentley

John, Roy, @aleksandr_rikhterman @adarshmammen & Guy exploring the U853 submarine off Block Island, Rhode Island. Thanks #SeaTurtleDiveCharters #UrbanManta #U853 #submarine #Montauk #NortheastWreckDiving

The new fleet of fresh #OtterDrysuits for Urban Manta students has been holding up well, and @aleksandr_rikhterman is getting to take his to Antartica in 2022! #Drysuit #DutchSprings #TDIflags #TDI #TDISDI #WeezleUndergarments

Great job @aleksandr_rikhterman on #TDISidemount & @dillon__wilson on #SDIWreck, Deep & Night! Jam packed weekend of lots of skills & drills. @brianclopp joined us at the end. #UrbanManta #TechTraining #DutchSprings #Sidemount #Drysuit #SMB

Fantastic job Sally the Finless Ninja! After 80 dives she tried hovering & finless kicks for the first time & got it day 1. If a diver can hover motionlessly, they can do anything else with a fully available brain. #SDIKickingTechniques #UrbanManta #FinlessKicks #SDI #FrogKick #HollisWing #Drysuit #Buoyancy #NeutralBuoyancy #Hovering #DutchSprings https://youtu.be/5aGKilDEsos

Great job on SDI Kicking Techniques, Sally! We worked up to a good job on finless kicks & hovering motionlessly for 45 seconds. Ready for Sidemount class! #SDI #SDIKickingTechniques #FinlessKicks #LikeANinja #UrbanManta #DutchSprings

Mordechai’s second ever finless kicks session, this time in Sidemount. Logged dive #20. #FinlessKicks #Sidemount #SMS75 #UrbanManta #DutchSprings #TDISidemount #TechDiver

Mordechai with his first TDI flag & Hollis SMS 75. TDI Sidemount learning both steel & Al tanks. Bag pops & finless kicks are getting good at his level! #TDIFlags #TDIFlagFriday #DiveStrong #Sidemount #HollisGear #SMS75 #TDISidemount #UrbanManta #TDI #DutchSprings

Congrats Mordechai on passing TDI Sidemount! Finless kicks are getting good! #SidemountDiving #HollisGear #UrbanManta #DutchSprings #SMS75 #UnderwaterTankGunning #TDI #TDISidemount @tdidivers

@anna_kasprzak , Ben & @brianclopp drysuit diving the crane @dutchsprings #SDIdivers #Drysuit #OtterDrysuits #WeezleUndergarments #UrbanManta #DutchSprings #DiveStrong

Cleaning out the old abandoned NYC Covid Land apt to return to life on the road tomorrow. Who’s up for Sidewinder training with myself and the co-developer of the Sidewinder, @eddsorenson? My Black Baby truck is loaded with gear & fall clothes and ready to change course to Fl from the meg ledge or Dutch Springs! Edd is on duall ccrs at JB in this shot. One of the best models on the planet (Edd & the Sidewinder/K2 ). #Sidewinder #CaveAdventurers #Seacraft #HollisKatana2 #DualCCR #JacksonBlueSprings #UrbanManta #LearnFromTheBest

6 layers including Weezle Extreme, Weezle skins & 2 heated vests under the Otter & toasty Kiss Classic rebreathed trimix to 222’ in 38 deg water with over an hour of deco, max 65 deg. Relatively toasty. Helped Dan extend one of the down lines. The search for Robin Murphy & more tunnels continues! Can you believe I can stuff so much under a drysuit? #TillyFosterMine #TillyFosterMineProject #WeezleUndergarments #OtterDrysuits #KissRebreathers @weezlesport @otterwatersports @kissrebreathers