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Hello, fellow fin-wearers, My use case is rather niche, which may explain why I haven't found information on this. Sometimes, I combine trail walking with wild swimming. The problem is that a regular daypack, such as one would wear on a day hike, is too small to carry my fins conveniently. The...

Had a bit of trouble today. I was swimming across the Tar River. I have done this crossing many times before -- both shores are City Parks property and swimming is a convenient shortcut rather than going all the way around via the roads. Visually, it looks like an easy crossing, and according to...

The question was more specific: "Are there features of the Atlantic that are unique, not shared with the Indo-Pacific?"

Of course, ships sunk for different reasons -- meaning in war -- don't get that kind of pretreatment. Is there data on how those wartime wrecks affected the environment?

I'm pretty sure there's a reason why you just don't see that anymore...

Since I plan to be buried at sea, I have been interested in benthic/abyssal geophysics and biota. I now live on the Atlantic Coast, which means that it is likely that I will end up being buried in the Atlantic Ocean. I have, therefore, been comparing the Atlantic with the Indo-Pacific. The...

So many shapes: oval, kidney shaped, rectangular, even hexagonal and quinqangular. This raises the question, is there an optimal shape toward which masks ought to converge, or is the diversity of shapes an indication that it doesn't really matter?

I'm not sure what to make of the fact that we think we need a new word for what to me has always been just "swimming."

After three pages, no less...

Patent protection shouldn't be too difficult if you properly document it. Not here. With the Patent Office. Of course, proper documentation includes a section in your patent application called "current art," in which you document what similar inventions already exist and how yours is unique...

The patents seem to be a new addition for this thread. They were not in the previous threads in this series.

That doesn't seem to be a PC thing to say anymore. I was surprised that there were no comments on this. Think about other types of insurance. Car insurance, for instance. Your car insurance will not pay for oil changes, tire rotation, tune ups, or things of that nature; that basic maintenance...

One caveat: many observers on iNaturalist make a point of disputing every species-level ID if the possibility exists that it could be a "look-alike" species. Every Bermuda chub, for instance, will quickly get bumped bck to "Genus Kyphosa."

I suppose that you would rather privatize every government service and let capitalist monopolies set the price tag?

Oh, it's photoshopped all right. You can tell because the antennae are growing from the rear edge of the carapace.

Was this perchance on eBay? I wouldn't trust eBay sellers anymore. Recently, I was in Target looking at a specific item of furniture. Then I did a price comparison online. Sellers on eBay were listing the same type of furniture, used, for as much or more as the brand new one at Target. Now...

It appears that all of them received mixed reviews. There was no clear winner in that report.

This reply got me trying to figure out what jellyfish these are. Unless this is a local colloquialism, I can't find any references to a jellyfish called that, although in the Med there is Pelagia noctiluca. You wouldn't want those all around you, though, because they sting.

Most swimming lessons focus on the competitive strokes -- the strokes that speed swimmers use. Those are not necessarily the best strokes for our purposes, just the fastest. I can't do the crawl the way a swim coach would teach it either, or the breast stroke. My preferred stroke is the side...

And parents wonder why kids grow up to be ungrateful... :rolleyes: