My report on the Dog Rally at Wazee Lake, WI

[Matt the Aquaman]

It was a beautiful day, well I had a lot of fun, I was interviewed by a couple different newspapers and a T.V. channel from one WI. My buddy Doug from Scuba News in Florida. Came in on Saturday to come to the lake on Sunday June 18, 06 to be with me. And it was great to have him as part of my team in the water. It was great to hang out with Susan Long and be able to be in the same water with her was awesome. It was fun to hang out with all of my family and friends and my friends in the water. It was great to finally meet the woman who designed my drysuit; if it wasn’t for her I wouldn’t have a drysuit. She is one of the biggest reason’s I have a dry suit.

got to the lake and we where looking through my equipment and my dad couldn’t find my dry suit and we couldn’t find it anywhere, my dad wasn’t kidding, my opps I forgot to double check my equipment, it turned out that my drysuit was left at home, opps, so one of my friends called their bother and he came over to my house where my grandmother was home watching our dog o pick up my dry suit, he met my friends husband and dad.

Met half way to get my dry suit, I’m lucky to have such a great family and friends, my dive was delayed until 2:00pm, but it give me time to visit with my friends that I haven’t seen for awhile. I got to dive for a little while, not as long as I wanted to but at least I still dived. I broke the surface a couple of times, my buddies forgot to put on my arm straps and my arms kepted going up above my head. I didn’t realize that my arms could bend that far. My mask kept coming up on me. But it’s going to always be a little different on each dive. If you added the total time that I was under water it would total up to 15 minutes. I was at 6ft. The visibility was great, it about 38ft. Once I get the rebreather and all that other stuff with the vent I’ll be able to go 20ft. should be able to test all of that in the next couple of weeks, it needs to be tested a lot before I can use it.

My next dive will be a lot longer at Square Lake, Stillwater, MN I will be doing a lot of lake dives before the Florida trip, I will be working on getting a fundraiser together in the next couple of months. To help me get to Florida in November.

I wrote up a manual now so that everyone will know what to do to help me dive right.

I attached 5 pics on this site: My Scuba Photographs I will get more pics to post once I get them from my friends. And I will send a video link once I have the video.

And there where a bunch of people clapping for me when I got out of the water.

Take care everyone and thanks for showing your support as always,

Matt Johnston

[tom]

fantastic. keep it up!

[Chardy]

Looking forward to seeing you at DEMA

[Matt the Aquaman]

Thanks everyone for the great support as always. Yes Upper Keys Florida is calling me and I can hardly wait. That's embarrasing about my dry suit, but I am not forgetting again!! Glad you all liked the pics. I will be diving again next Friday in a lake. Can't wait for DEMA.

Safe diving.

Matt

[DAFFY]

Hey Matt, congratulations and keep up the good work. Strange thing is that on Sunday 18th June, at around 2:00pm (bst) we were getting kitted up and getting ready for a dive as well down in Dorset

Also notice on the picture of your certificate it is dated 17-March. A wonderful date as it's my daughters birthday

Take care and hope you have many more dives

Noel

[Mark Griffith]

Hi Matt
Sounds like its going well,still got the :diving a dream band: fixed to my ccr.
take care
cheers
Mark

[Matt the Aquaman]

Hey everyone, I have something else to share.

Here is the TV broadcast, did not show me underwater. But here is the link, check it out. http://www.weau.com/news/headlines/3185621.html

Matt

[Matt the Aquaman]

Here is two new articles the first one is from the Black River Falls WI. news paper Another one is the MN Pioneer Press, Nancy Yang, they are good articles.

The Chronicle - Features

Here is the next article. St. Paul Pioneer Press | 06/19/2006 | Making a dive against time

Let me know what you think.

Take care,

Matt

[Mark Davies]

Just got back from a week's holiday and while I was away saw a clip in Diver magazine saying you were due to do this dive. Couldn't wait to get home and get on-line to see how it went.

Open water! Top banana!

[Steve S]

Hi Matt,

only just caught this thread, what a fantastic achievement you and your crew have done.

Good luck for your next dives.

Safe diving,
Steve