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Glad to hear things went better!

I was adopted - but into a wonderful, loving home so I don't really know what you are going through there - although the very few bad memories I have of when I was a child involved my parents drinking too much alcohol (although they didn't do that very often) so as an adult I just don't drink -...

Hi Sandie - felt I should tell you a bit about my "learn to dive" experience. When I was a little girl my parents put me in the water and I cried - so they took me out and never put me back again - it never would have occurred to them to pay someone to teach me to swim. Anyway - fast forward...

when we do dive from our friend's boat we will have a rope attached to the boat with a weight on the end - he has marked the rope at 15' increments all the way down

Ok - strange thing - the LCD screen started working again - we didn't do anything - brought the camera home and "parked" it on a shelf - husband went to steal the floating strap off it for a new camera we bought and couldn't remember which Coolpix had quit working - he ended up turning on both...

it's true - I'm sure not all master divers are like that - and being a master diver doesn't mean you have good judgment - they are human after all and some humans have better judgment than others. my problem is how do you know when you first meet someone? I worry that we'll get out there with...

I would love to start with a nice shore dive - but where we live the water is about the color of chocolate milk until you get offshore - sometimes 15 miles or so, sometimes farther. Found a post several years old here on the forum talking about a 1st saltwater dive - 4 new divers, 2 master...

thanks!

no, driving the boat will not be a problem - my husband has been working on them and operating them for over 30 years now. He also worked a summer off shore on a "stand by boat" next to a working rig when he was 15 or 16 and had to operate that very large boat as well so absolutely no worries...

just so you don't worry - if we get out there and it's not calm or there is a strong current we will not dive, if it is calm and the current is light we will dive with the experienced rig divers with us - the boat will not be moving and will have people onboard the whole time - we both have...

husband did some research and talked me into ordering a TG3

Warnings duly noted - but to get to a nice saltwater shore dive/reef dive we'd have to travel at least to another state - a rig dive is about the only option we have to do a saltwater dive. We're going on a cruise in January and plan to dive in the ports but are hoping for one saltwater dive...

I did read my book cover to cover - neither husband or I remembered reading anything about bad weather or lightning - so I went back and looked - nothing there....but thanks to all for the good information. All I had to base my thoughts on is the fact that when you're in a pool you're told to...

Checking the weather first is of course the best idea, but like many have mentioned sometimes something comes up that no one expects...happens quite a bit here in Texas too. It was just something I had wondered about as the dive lakes we've visited (mostly on sunny clear days - last time was...

really? how much you want for it?

Ok - this may sound silly but it's something I've thought about and it wasn't really covered in class and no one has mentioned it when we've visited dive lakes...what is the risk at a lake - or in the ocean - if a storm blows up while you're diving? None of the people at the dive lakes have...

I appreciate your concerns but I suppose I should clarify - my husband and I own an outboard repair service - this friend's boat is more than capable of making the trip and he regularly goes offshore in it. I'm not sure how far away the rig is, but he's been there many times, we are going this...

Just started looking at the 8010 - thinking it plus a housing would make a good scuba camera - have heard stories about housings leaking just a little and killing the camera inside - my thinking is if the camera is also "waterproof" a little leak wouldn't kill it. Anyone had any experience with...

Thanks all - very good information. This will not be a "dive boat" with a large group of people - this is a friend's boat with just us and a couple other divers who are both experienced (Gulf) rig divers. Might there be other divers out there at the same time - sure - have no control over that...

Yeah that's what I'll try next time - who knew this would be so hard - it gets frustrating at times but it is what it is