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I don't think it's so much that touching is so bad, but as with all wildlife interactions there's a continuum of effects, from touching to petting to grabbing to restraint and, in the case of the octopus, to wrestling. I don't think anyone knows about the amount and nature of stress or how much...

The difference between pool and ocean is likely not so much due to the gloves you wear in the ocean as it is to the fact that water tends toward the higher salt concentration, so the less mineral in the water, the more readily it's absorbed by the skin. Which is what's happening; the top layer...

San Solomon Springs/Balmorhea has been mentioned, but you you don't quite get the contrast between the desert and the springs without visuals. YouTube - Balmorhea State Park YouTube - Balmorhea State Park TPWD: Balmorhea State Park

Heh! If one desires to promote a conspiratorial agenda, about the least effective method would be complex art works in an airport. You're dang lucky if you can get people to read and make sense of a campaign poster or muster the attention span to listen to a simplistic radio spot geared to...

I charitably thought, "Oh well. How much of a good plot can you expect when you set out to make a dramatic film about cave diving?" But then I think about Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue and reflect that one might well imagine they began by setting out to make a dramatic film about free diving and...

But what about cave sharks, Bart? What about cave sharks?!!

There's no danger of giving the plot away, because anyone who has seen many movies will know from the first five minutes what will happen and who will die. Saw it Sunday. The short version of what I posted in another thread is: You know all those expedition gone bad movies with the hard...

Okay. Well, we went to see this thing. Maybe I'm just too old and have seen too many movies. Cameron is a very good technical film maker, and although he wasn't director here, he still can get it to happen. His films are always technically well put together. This one was no exception...

All that comes to mind is imagining two hungry sharks and one of them looking at those fins and telling the other one: "I'm gonna pass. I don't eat clowns. They taste funny."

Let me point something out here. I'll try to get it close to correct. Do not interpret the SCOTUS decision as necessarily an indication of how the Supreme Court would have decided the issues in the case. They simply failed to overturn the 9th Circuit. While that certainly works in favor of the...

I don't worry so much about even bad breaches that are isolated events. Everybody either has them or lies about not having them. They're less dangerous, because the chances of the worst happening on just that occasion is small (although some percentage of folks will get burned that one time, as...

You know, there's another thread running about different "views." Well, I have to conclude that there are for sure different views of staying alive and well while diving. I won't belabor the facts are related in the OP, because it's not that much different in nature from a great many other...

Bent eyes?

Well, there's a "sip" and a "big 'ol drink," and the difference may well make the difference between illness and no effect at all. While, in theory, it only takes one organism, in practice, the likelihood of contracting something requires some larger number. In outdoor settings, we are mostly...

One of the reasons I plan to book with Silent World Key Largo for our first salt water trip is their destination schedule, which may not be unique but is at least fixed far ahead (as fixed as you can reasonably expect) and posted on their site. We're looking for more shallow sites, and they plan...

I don't think you can really say it's not altering behavior, but the real issue would be whether natural behavior is altered in a harmful way, which I don't think is the case here. It's probably more of a concern for species with more elaborate learning where feeding (or passive feeding, like...

We're planning our first trip late spring, but I'll pass along a book that seems likely to be very useful in selecting sites. Florida Keys Dive Guide, the 2003 revised edition. Aerial, elevation, and artistic oblique elevation depictions of reef sites and wrecks with mooring positions and dive...

You learn the darnedest things while writing a response. I had not known of the "slugette," AKA "snail" until I ran across it in a mass article. The only problem now is that it's just darned hard to find a way to use those newly acquired terms in office conversation.

No, thanks. I'm surprised you could find the tip. I'm sure it wasn't in very good condition, so I understand if you don't want it back, but I have even less use for it.

Just remember when you were starting and trying to remember everything at once. If we presume her instructor is covering everything essential, why load her with other stuff or with the task of trying to figure out if what her instructor is saying is the same thing you told her, or a...