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Guys, I simply cannot believe it is supposed to be this difficult. I am a fairly smart and capable guy, and I'm rock-solid in my rec rig (Zeagle Ranger, AL80). Been diving about a year & a half, with approx 100 dives. We were diving manifolded AL80's, with BP/W's. I had a 40lb(I think)...

OK, I have modeled this on a computer, but I want to check my work. Here goes. A friend of mine argues that the following method is a way to get an edge playing slot machines: -- Play the machine you are on until it wins. -- Hang out and wait until some leaves a machine in disgust from a...

I have to disagree with this one. Out of Africa, IMHO, was a marvelous film. But the bad ones? Battlefield Earth. Worst film ever made. A Walk To Remember. Pure Dreck. My favorites films of all time: The Big Kahuna Fight Club Children of a Lesser God The Blues Brothers Shawshank...

There once was this girl from Bonaire Who dove to three-thirty on air She convulsed arm and leg Then spit out her reg Now she sings with the angels upstairs

I have a an Aeris Atmos AI and am very happy with it. It does nitrox, dive planning, dive simulation, is air-integrated, with a top-mounted compass. Think I paid about $639 for it. I'll echo a previous poster and tell you to call Larry at scubatoys. They'll hook you up. --'Goose

Well, I'm not toos sure about other fish, but I keep cichlids and feed them live food often. It's basically the same as non-live. Cichlids (unlike some other fish) have no teeth in the front of their mouth, but rather, rough bony ridges to grip things if necessary. They have traingular plates in...

You mentioned doing a saltwater wall tank. Be careful. Very careful. Seawater weighs ~64lbs/cu.ft. For a wall tank, say, 8 ft high, 12 ft long, 3 ft thick, that's 288 cubic feet, that comes to 18,342 pounds, spread over 36 sq ft, giving you 512 lbs/sq ft on your foundation. Make sure your...

Does the BCD's manual specifically say they're for doubles? The doubles you really don't need right now at this stage? ;) Does the wing in that BC have enough lift to support the negative bouyancy of two tanks, plus the additional weight on your belt that you will have to have to overcome their...

I'm not a DIR or a tech guy, by any means... I'm just a regular Joe, so I'm not sure how qualified I am to answer this, but some things occur to me about your approach: -- It looks like you have a ScubaPro jacket-style BCD that is specifically designed for a single tank. I shudder at what you...

I doofed it on my first ocean dive trip. On my first dive, I had bouyancy issues. Had to thumb the dive & cut the dive short for the two guys I was diving with, that I met on the boat. Second dive, still can't believe I did this, I went solo, so that I wouldn't blow anyone else's dive. Got...

Don't forget to take advantage of the fact that most pickups have vertical & horizontal slots in the side of the bed that will fit 2x10's quite nicely. --'Goose

The way I calc the area is to chop the curve into polygons (imagine a vertical line drawn from the data point down (or up) to the x-axis, then keep a running total of all those areas as I move over the readings. My last reading assumes a value of zero 15 secs after the last reading. One thing...

OK, I've been toying around with this on my computer, trying to calculate an average value for a set of readings over time. MY QUESTION: Imagining a dot-to-dot line through all the data points, and that being a "curve", if I take the area under that curve, and divide it by the amount of time...

Check out the Bottom Scratcher, a boat that runs out of Long Beach. Great crew, great food, & the skipper will actually play bagpipes for you. It's a blast... http://www.bottomscratcher.com Regards, --'Goose

Not meaning to hijack, but at CSSP during a class, I saw a man taking a child that could not have been more than 8 years old(probably more like 6 or 7), into the water using some cobbled-together BCD, with a pony bottle on the child's back. I will be honest, and admit to having taken a...

Amen... If you can nav in Texas.. you can nav anywhere.

I gotta go with either Animal or Beaker. Has anyone here ever actually tried to work an actual muppet? I takes a great deal of talent to actually bring the thing to life, and give it a personality, rather than just flapping the mouth. Expressions, nodding, looking around, acting scared or...

Hi, guys... Fairly new diver here, couple of questions... 1) Shooting a lift bag... is this done to provide boats (perhaps even the one you're diving from) something to watch out for in a possibly busy area, or does give you a reference to ascend by(how fast the rope goes through your...

I second(third, whatever) the toypedo. $7 at wal-mart. But, here's how to make things interesting. -- Create a diamond out of 4 10-in section of sch 40 pvc and 4 90-degree joints (use cement, not screw-in types.) Allow to dry at least 1 hr. -- Tie this off with two 4-ft pieces of twine to...

Yes... this is *precisely* what God is telling you to do. He told me to do the same thing, I ignored him, and look at me now. I *don't* have twin strobes and a housing for my dSLR. Don't end up like me. :D