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Wow, eighteen day Grand Canyon trip... that would be a hard one for me to take a pass on. My wife has been down the Grand Canyon several time, but those were before we met. She used to be stationed at Lee's Ferry. One of the drawbacks to my National Park Service job used to be camping in the...

I was a seasonal park ranger with the Resource Management Division in Dinosaur National Monument for fourteen years. I also taught a lot of people to fly fish on the Green. Floating the Green River's "A" Section was always an eye-opening experience, but it was really cold. (LOL)

No, we didn't climb back in the raft for any of the whitewater areas on the "A" section of the Green. At the time, I was the training officer and dive team leader for a fire department. I was trained for swift water rescue as well as a whitewater boater (kayak and river dory). The whitewater...

Back in the early 1990's, we used to float the "A" Section of the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam in scuba gear. Floating the river involved having a support raft with some extra air tanks along for the trip. Basically, we'd float with inflated BCDs and snorkel until we saw something we...

You'll probably get varying opinions about traveling with your camera body locked into your housing. My camera bodies travel locked into their housings. Most of the major components of my underwater systems travel as carry-on luggage that goes in the overhead storage bins when I fly. The...

For what it's worth, I blew-out my ACL and tore my Meniscus pretty well last October. The MRI indicated that my ACL is pretty much gone. My ortho doc put me in twice a week PT in an effort to avoid surgery. The PT has been a real drag, but seems to be successful in strengthening other support...

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I've done 100's of dives with several different housed camera systems and have never had a strobe arm come detached. I do tether my housings to my wing harness. On a number of occasions, sea lions have tried to grab my camera rig (usually by the floats on strobe arms). They stop the "snatch the...

No, I don't think port size had anything to do with the failure. It was probably more of an o-ring issue. The Vivid o-ring is thick enough to seal when installed on a metal housing; I don't think it's thick enough to seal and stay sealed when directly installed in a bulkhead opening on my...

LOL! Back when I was in junior high school, I learned to shoot manually. Back in those days, 35mm and 120 film cameras didn't have TTL. The newspaper I worked for started me with a twin lens Rolleiflex and a hand held light meter. I've never used TTL with any of my underwater camera systems...

Yes, fiber optic cables are subject to breakage and it's not difficult to break fiber optic cables. Many of the divers I associate with build their own to avoid paying premium prices for replacements. Some don't worry about building their cables with coils. I have one older Nauticam housing...

I'm using a Fantasea moisture alarm on my Ikelite housing. It has both an audible alarm and a light that starts blinking if triggered. The vacuum system that didn't work well on my Ikelite housing was a Vivid. Like I mentioned in an earlier post, it worked on several dives until it didn't. I've...

It's always interesting to see old threads revived after a couple of years. While I still use my Ikelite housing with my Nikon D7200, it's worth noting that I added a vacuum system following the user-error flood back in 2021. I'd love to say the addition of the vacuum system totally solved the...

Is there a reason your post does not include the price? -AZTinman

My point here is simply that it's really easy to throw rocks at the Mexican government for the Guadalupe closure. And yes, there is no shortage of corruption in Mexico. CONANP often seems less interested in protecting ocean resources than promoting extraction of resources from ocean waters. But...

People can spin this any which way they want, but it really boils down to a 'stunt' to wow and attract viewers. Does an experiment to see if white sharks will attack something perceived as prey in clear water really need to involve putting a diver inside a floating plexiglas box? If the answer...

Well, it didn't take 6 or 7 years for the Mexican government to take notice of the bad and some illegal practices of dive operators at Guadalupe. The highly publicized cage breach incidents occurred during 2016 and the government addressed issues at a meeting with operators in 2017. After the...

There were two cage breach incidents in 2016. The first was the result of an operator putting a bag of chum inside a cage and having divers basically dance and jump around on it to disperse the smell into the water. A large white shark attempted to get into the cage by coming through the top...

In 2010, Mauricio Hoyos-Padilla and group of researchers published a study entitled: Records of the white shark, Carcharon, in the Gulf of California. The study includes some interesting information. One of the specimens documented in the study was over twenty-one feet long. This particular...

"They shot at a civilian airliner on the tarmac." Like I said, "Generally, the drug cartels haven't purposefully targeted people engaged in tourism activities." Was the airliner specifically targeted or was it hit by gunfire that was intended for other targets? I wasn't there... maybe you were...