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This is about YOU being able to get the special Package Deals SFDJ has negotiated with the best area Hotels..to enjoy the Best Dive Resort experience possible. possible.

Examples of the benefits of logging in:

1. Much lower prices when reserving hotel rooms for divers with SFDJ log-in ID
2. All perks we are currently offering will be immediately offered to you, such as:
- a. Any "special" boat or hotel deals
- b. Better fill discounts for air, Nitrox or trimix
- Shuttle Van availability which is most likely when we have a large number of SFDJ registered Hotel guests in a given week.
- d. High likelihood of getting you diving with other divers with exactly the same diving interest you have ****Should be the most important perk..see Specific Interest Dive Group article
- e. Planning tools and Groups Calendar system to help you find the best times to find what you want on a Palm Beach Dive Trip
3. If you are a Scubaboard member, we can alert you when there are several other Scubaboard members in town diving during your trip here
5. Opportunity to be notified and involved in Free Gear Demos, free DIR Dive Experience and Training demos
6. Help us create a larger lobby for Palm Beach Diving which we can leverage with County Tourism to push for better State and local protections for the Palm Beach Reef system.

Beyond being an Underwater Adventure Magazine, SFDJ is the collaborative infrastructure of the best Dive Operators and best Hotels for diving in Palm Beach county Florida..SFDJ is the system the hotels and boats are using to connect with traveling and local divers, and if you don't login each time you visit, the boats and hotels won't be able to offer you the best deals and ideas we have come up with.

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Nudibranchs at the Bridge ...Underview Each of these nudibranchs had to be tracked, and hunted. Masters of camouflage, and often the size of a grain of rice, these creatures compel macro photographers to the BHB daily. Their story is as strange as their appearance. In the family of snails, and without shells, they eat toxic and poisonous prey, and then generate a “Toxic Defense System” from the prey. They are often found eating hydroids in this marine park. You may remember the discomfort of hydroid stings, when not wearing protective gear over exposed skin. Imagine, being able to convert the stinging of the hydroids for your own defense! So how do you find a needle in a haystack,	or harder still, a well concealed nudibranch in it’s natural element? The best trackers and hunters we know, first learn the eating and hunting habits of the nudibranchs, and begin their search by scanning the bottom for accumulations of algae and hydroids. Too much algae and substrate to hide in, and there will be no good way to get good shots of them through all the “tropical foliage” . You have	to hunt them where they are drawn out a little into the open....Certain areas at the BHB Marine Park are like African Savannahs ...large expanses of sand and shells ( like the grasslands) with intermittent outcroppings of algae, seagrasses, and hydroids ( the BHB version of a “discontinuous cover of trees). The smart “out of town photographers” hire a professional Nudibranch Hunter, and soon find themselves following their guide over some of the most unlikely underwater terrain many divers have ever been exposed to, and once in position at a major feeding site, the divers feel more like Navy SEALS, stealthily moving along with Lembeh sticks, maintaining horizontal trim without silting, right at the bottom.... See video! You can venture out yourself with no guide--unlike the African Savannah, but the uniqueness of this ecosystem leaves most photographers at a loss to know where to look for the best pictures. One of the best Guides SFDJ can recommend is Ariane Dimitris (reach her at escherandme2001@yahoo. com) . If she is not available, email us at dan@sfdj.com ,