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You need...THE MELON-MASTER 5000!!!

You're not giving wal-mart enough credit. I think their return policy is 90 days and they'll take back items in almost any condition. I'm not making this up: a buddy of mine took back a vacuum at Wal-Mart with no reciept AND it had a Target sticker on the box...they still returned it! I guess...

haha...that's Joe. He said the same thing to me...that he has had more business generated by Rusty than anybody else. With almost every dive shop in this area if you mention SSA or Rusty Berry you get a rolling of the eyes and at least one horror story they know of, or dealt with directly...

Interesting...SSA's club is called Club Aquarius. Do you think Rusty co-opted the name, or was he part of that original Club Aquarius?

I don't think they really care. After my "interview" with Rusty, I called SSI and filed a complaint and I suspect nothing ever came of it. Also, after I had my Atomic Mask fiasco, I called atomic and detailed to them what happened and, well, I'm sure he still sells atomic merchandise. As...

Lina77 seems to be catching a pretty decent amount of flak here. I agree that she certainly bears some culpability, and I think that she realizes that. But you don't know how Rusty is. He has a nice shop, he smiles, he formulates some fairly clever jokes, he has tons of experience both as a...

Sue Rusty Berry, but don't sue the pants off him because then you'll have to see him without pants! You'll expose his rusty berries!!

Hopefully I can help get the ball rolling on this. Rusty Berry gave me the worst customer service experience I have ever had. He is pushy, manipulative, and condescending. I purchased one item from him (a mask) and it will absolutely be the only business he receives from me. When I spoke to...

I didn’t end up getting my cert through him, but several months later I had decided I wanted to get either the Atomic Frameless or Oceanic shadow, and he was the only dive shop in the area I could find that had them. Here was how our conversation on the phone basically went: me: do you carry...

Obviously the OP has to take some culpability here...but it's worth keeping in mind that Rusty is a very convincing guy; I believe he has one of the most successful LDS's in SoCal. He gets you from every angle; he's experienced, knowledgable, somewhat charasmatic...but if those tactics don't...

That 8000 may very well have included a rebreather...or at least rebreather training. I didn't get my cert through Rusty because he was very pushy/coercive/condescending. In our "interview" he talked about the varying degrees of certification I should pursue, the necessity of a drysuit...

I had one dealing with Rusty and it will be my last (he somehow managed to make something as simple as buying a mask into a nightmare experience). Not someone I will have anything to do with ever again.

If you can get out this weekend, the conditions are great (assuming they hold up for the next couple days). 63F water, 85F air, 1-2ft surf, light/moderate surge, 10-15ft vis near shore, 15-20ft vis further out (e.g. near seal rock, kelp patch in front of divers cove, etc) and tons of fish...

things I learned in my first 20 dives: -people of all ages, races, and classes are interested in talking to SCUBA divers. -almost everything about SCUBA diving sucks...except for SCUBA diving. -it’s better to own your own gear -keep your hands out of crevices, sometimes there’s...

The last time I was there I saw several couples that fit this description. And there was also a couple of 60-ish guys with what appeared to be mail-order young Asian brides. I don't really think this is indicitive of the Catalina couples at-large...I just thought it sounded funny.

A bunch of rich middle-aged businessmen taking their barely-legal girlfriends to the island so they can get laid is what passes for romance these days?!?

Just curious...