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Paladin, you got it so right. Backplate and a horse collar with almost no lead.

Get a BIG knife and strap it to your leg like a REAL diver. (I keep mine in a BC pocket, a fold-up SS, single blade, three inch.)

Very strange report. Wait for the real news.

That's pretty warm temp for bottom timp on the SG. Last time I dove it in February the bottom temp was 63. I need to get down there soon.

Thalassamania: It's all about $$$$$. Get'em in and get'em out, sell'em some gear, take their money and forget about them. The 'rescue' part of my OW 'training' involved floating an unmoving diver on the surface about 30 feet to the boat. Useless. Of course I suppose that there are some...

Probably 99% of newbie OW divers would have enough ascending by themselves let alone trying to save someone else in distress.

Kick back to the thread list and look at the posts for sharks off of Jupiter and then tell me that sharks are in short supply.

How about a compass?

And then there is always the Twin Quarries at Circleville, Ohio.

No comparison. Atlantic side is an ocean. Gulf side is a pond. Waste you time.

Five bucks for the DM and the same for the Captain is plenty as far as I am concerned. At least none of them has turned it down so far.

First thing I did when I got my OW cert was to fly to Ft. Laud and hire a lady instructor to dive with for a few days since I knew that I would probably kill myself otherwise.

I'd have told you to mind our own business and if you didn't want to eat shark meat don't order it. There's no shortage of sharks. This is one of the most outlandish stories I have ever heard.

It's called "getting old", Dudes.

Do you include the college of 'hard knocks"? Sounds elitist to me.

I get my sacks from Walmart at about eight sacks a week.

Most divers get the bug after only a few dives. The dive shop has already gotten a thousand or two out of their bank account for gear and OW cert. Many of these divers do a few dives, find out it takes up too much of their time for one reason or the other, like no dive spots nearby which entails...

So much for a shortage of sharks.

I believe that if I was 22 instead of 72 I'd probably have taken the Rescue and on to Instructor but I don't have the strength or stamina to do it nowadays. If I took it I would sign up with someone who really teaches an in depth course, nothing hurried, and serious about it. I took the online...

Buy it, keep what you need and sell the rest on Ebay.