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If a thread you initiated begins to meander too far from the pertinent topic, why not just lock it? As the thread-starter, you have that power, you know.

No, I didn't. Thanks for the pointer!

On the other hand, I don't agree with those who criticize posters for going off on tangents far removed from the original topic of the thread. That's just the way human conversation is, it goes off on tangents.
 
No, I didn't. Thanks for the pointer!

On the other hand, I don't agree with those who criticize posters for going off on tangents far removed from the original topic of the thread. That's just the way human conversation is, it goes off on tangents.

Yes, and some folks get so good at it they become politicians.:D
 
Start a thread how you love your vest BC and snorkel

The first post will be, I threw my snorkel away as soon as I got my OW certification.
 
Start a thread how you love your vest BC and snorkel

The first post will be, I threw my snorkel away as soon as I got my OW certification.

I think the snorkel is a pain in the ass. Perhaps if I were in a situation where I had to swim some distance on the surface, I'd wish I had it though.
 
I think the snorkel is a pain in the ass. Perhaps if I were in a situation where I had to swim some distance on the surface, I'd wish I had it though.

You might want to re-look the way you wear it.

For off-shore diving, I carry a snorkel attached to my BP right next to the tank - very much out of the way. If swimming longer distances, you are probably better on your back which would not require a snorkel. The snorkel would probably be more helpful while resting, especially in rough seas.
 
The challenge now is to come up with a thread which will push enough SB buttons that it carries on ad infinitum. How about this:

Been there. Done that...

When my buddy and I were diving the U-869 on air with John Chatterton and Richie Kohler last year, my buddy's split fins silted the place up so bad that I couldn't find my Spare-Air. I got so nervous I mistakenly hit the "up elevator" lever on my SeaQuest i-3 BCD. Ordinarily, this would have sent me shooting to the surface, but fortunately some monofilament got tangled around my Air-2. When I cut the line with the 11" knife strapped to my calf, I mistakenly poked the purge valve in my HydrOptix mask. I tried to use my tank banger to get my buddy's attention, but by that time he had gotten one of his suicide clips tangled up in the retractor I use to attach my dry snorkle to the transmitter of my air-integrated wireless compass, which I bought on-line instead of at the LDS that I stopped supporting ever since I signed up for e-learning. I believe that was right about the time I had the regs I bought at Leisure Pro serviced at the local Jiffy-Lube but didn’t actually test them myself before going on a special “Storm Tracker” live-aboard trip that I signed up for because in addition to free nitrox they were offering a special "take Fish ID, get your IDC free" promotion. Unfortunately I missed that trip because of the systemic fungal infection I contracted when the Halcyon p-valve I installed myself in my cave-cut trilam dry suit failed while I was solo-diving for golf balls without a scooter. Which I only did for the money, ever since the captain of the boat I DM on started making me tip the passengers $10/tank on every charter that I work.

I'm writing a book about it...

Shallow Divers: The true story of two Americans who risked everything to solve the mystery of every "you're gonna die" cliche on ScubaBoard

Ironically, it seems that Gary Gentile is now claiming that I actually did not experience EVERY cliche myself, based on a series of interviews with the girlfriend of the brother of a guy I shared a room with on Spring Break in 1987 and is now threatening to expose the REAL story of how all the trouble started when NetDoc kept radioing the Coast Guard to ask whether he could log pool dives as "real dives".

I will happily refute Gary's assertions in an on-line interview on ScubaBoard, wherein I will respond to any and all questions with "get a BP/W" while wearing my mask on my forehead.

PS - it's not the agency, it's the instructor!

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/fi...lit-fins-let-bashing-begin-2.html#post3443054

 
Don't split fins git you to deep air faster?
 
Become the thread Matt................ Matt......... be the thread.

1:38 :D

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