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Needless to say, you need to get personal advice from your own physicians, but generally speaking, this should not be a contraindication to diving provided there are no other issues, specifically seizures. If he is OK to drive, he should be OK to dive. An adequately coiled aneurysm should no...

To say Oppenheimer was responsible for these deaths is simplistic. He was asked by his government, in a time of war, to oversee a weapons program based on nuclear fission. At the time, as Einstein noted, there was a serious potential that the ****s were doing likewise (although, in hindsight...

Thanks, this is great. Note that even this isn't definitive...there is one that the person who made this index wasn't even sure of. I also noted my Western/Anglo chauvinism. Most of the many Asian/Eastern faces and names, save for perhaps three or four, I have no clue as to who they are or why...

a few others in no particular order (sorry if I repeat ome of your list, I'll try not to) 38 Johann Brahms (?) 81 Shirley Temple 45 Salvador Dali 95 Ariel Sharon 15 Marlon Brando 67 Picasso 92 Toulose Latrec 29 Ramses II (??) 17 Julius Caeser 54 Ludwig Beethoven

The nicer resort hotels are on Palm Beach, I think. Advantages to Aruba: 1) very predictable weather, generally hot and windy every day; 2) wind keeps bug problems to a minimum; 3) very safe water supply, safe or safer than US and Canada; 4) very nice airport with easy customs/immigration; 5)...

This is written from the perspective from someone who speaks no language fluently, not even English (as comedian Brian Regan said, I know enough English to order off a menu). Nevertheless, I had enough Spanish in college to qualify for a minor in that language decades ago, and, in the last few...

Oh, and great dog. It looks just like my big stupid Golden, Charley...

All divers should read Silent World by Cousteau, a history of the invention of scuba and hair-raising tales of the early days, when no one knew dive tables or anything about oxygen toxicity, etc, and the equipment was all makeshift. Amazon has used copies for as little as three bucks.

The whole concept of "animal suffering" has been corrupted and used for propaganda. First, there is a distinction between pain and suffering, and between the concept of "pain" itself and the aversive, reflex avoidance of dangerous stimuli. Jellyfish steer clear of danger; even single-celled...

from humorist Dave Barry: you know you are getting old when the hairs in your ears look like they came from Cher's head

if you remember when only rich families had color tvs and only Bonanza was in color anyway and going to the store with TV tubes to the "tube tester" to see which one was bad until, of course, the Quasar TV came out with something called "solid state" circuits and no (well, almost no) tubes...

you start to really notice the days when you feel "good" when the young people admire you because you actually saw the original Star Wars trilogy in the theaters when they first came out, like being witness to the crucifixion or seeing Lincoln shot you once remembered where you were when...

excellent:clapping:

Nobody mentioned "Open Water" because it wasn't worth mentioning, I suspect. It is to diving what the Airport movies were to aviation, or Capricorn One was to the space program.

If you see no evidence to suggest otherwise, you haven't been paying attention. To start with, his computer profile shows a slow ascent, hardly the reaction of someone stricken with the "worst moment in his life". He lied about his computer malfunctioning, changed his story multiple times, was...

Let's see...breathing for like 30 minutes off a pen-sized tank...emerging from a full wet suit with a perfectly pressed tuxedo underneath...the Bond movies were always a bit silly, but their take on diving has always been far-fetched

This all varies according to the individual, but it might take several minutes to pass out, five to ten minutes to suffer irreversible brain injury and ten minutes or longer to actually suffer cardiac arrest. Fit, trained people can hold their breaths for several minutes without passing out; a...

I don't think a bear hug makes a difference. Underwater, no air is no air. My only point was that turning off the air briefly (say, a few minutes), would likely harm a person neurologically but may not kill them if the air is turned back on. The medulla is much more resistant to hypoxia than the...

I believe the theory is that he turned her gas off while in a bear hug until she died, then turned it back on. I may not be remembering correctly, so others may chime in with more accurate info, but I think her tank was on and the reg in her mouth when found, yet the official cause of death was...

Seavision...they have a website where you enter your script and order online. I have astigmatism and have used their masks for years. They are great. They are at seavisionusa.com