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Ok, this was a recipe and not social commentary on TexMex food for scared caucasians.

Ah yes, getting a captain’s license and sealing with the Coast Guard. In the Navy, I was a Fleet Officer of the Deck and once spent a full day coordinating the surface operations of two carrier battle groups in the South China sea. When I decided to get a USCG license, I was going to get a Third...

I wouldn’t even let myself on my own boat.

I skipped mini season this year. My wife went to Montana for a while the day before it began, my boat has been in Trinidad now for three years and I just never got around to buying another one, plus I didn’t want to be on a crowded commercial boat anyway. When I see the boat charters’ pics of...

Wow...good luck with this. I can go anywhere in the world and parts of near outer space and I won’t even go one town away except to help out my neighbors who won’t leave our street. Let us know how it goes...

Leave the Spare Air. Take the cannoli.

People are going to wander into this thread and confuse this Master stuff with the Seinfeld episode about being Master of Your Own Domain. The three days that I coordinated two aircraft carrier battle groups steaming together in the Indian Ocean during changeover, I thought then that I was...

I didn’t like to hire retirees as captains because they had a tendency to die on me from all that other retirement stress. I’d just get the guy settled in, fitted out with the four epaulet white shirt and personalized coffee mug, and ~BOOOM!!!!~ that damn call at 4am that Bob just died... I...

I’m kinda done with T&C. Grand Turk is now a cruise ship destination, and when I was on Provo a couple of years ago, the level of development make it seem like visiting Port St. Lucie. But hey, that’s me. Other people just love the place. Have fun whatever you do....t

Well that raft certainly has its advantages. I’ve only been rescued at sea three times while diving...twice in Hawaii and once in Floriduh, so I’m relatively new at this since I only started diving in 1961. I never got too concerned since I figured that they’d either get me, or someone else...

Black doesn’t seem like a good DSMB color. Length is better - the guys in the SAR aircraft get eye-numbed quickly staring out at the ocean. You have a 10’ sausage folded into a triangle shape - that pops out.

Pete...that’s not you getting off the boat in the Galapagos?

Watching Bradley get the heave-ho off the bridge reminded me of when I used to drive a dive boat out of Waianae on Oahu. In the winter, the swells rolled in straight out of Siberia so the sets could get pretty intense. I had a pair of big Cummins BT diesels so coming back to port, I’d line up...

Damn...for a lousy 10 grand, they opened one really nasty can o’ worms with the court system.

Gee, trying to promote recreational diving in Libya, advancing rebreather diving in the US, and a little collateral damage in the Keys and everyone just piles on this guy. Somehow, I never crossed paths with him. Oh well...

I didn’t realize DEMA is right around the corner. I go every so often when I remember to. One year, I worked at the HydroOptix mask booth, and that was fun although the masks were a PITA to actually dive with. It’s a shame though that there is really nothing else at all to do in the greater...

Staying in Palm Beach would require a pretty long drive south for either boat.

We went out of Boynton both days at 6am. It was ok, but Wednesday am was packed pierside. I might not bother with mini season again since I can dive anytime I want. I don’t eat lobster anyway, although my cat was mighty appreciative. Plus the neighbors liked their trays of lobster mac ‘n cheese...

i thought that I was done investing in the marine recreational industry until I read this thread. Yuge opportunity here for an untapped market. I already nailed the web address...the rest will come later. www.flamingdogturdsatsea.com...

Too bad Spalding Gray died...”Diving in Bucharest” would be a good working title for a follow up to “Swimming to Cambodia”. Good luck over there!