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And, it's quite amazing just how many divers own birds... My instructor has a 6-7 year old african gray that knows well over 1500+ words and phrases and even makes up new phrases from various words she knows. It's spooky how appropriate what she says can be sometimes. She's currently...

My first (and hopefully only) time was this fall... I had though I was imune too... I grew up in puerto Rico and spent LOTs of time on boats but then hardly any the last 10 years or so. It may also have been contributed to by the not-quite-fully-ripe bannana with breakfast but that's...

I had a similar choice to make and got the Transpac II I got: the basic harness various accessories (clip on pockets, crotch strap, etc...) the "travel" wing for single tank / tropical vacation diving. the "dual rec" wing for doubles with wetsuit/drysuit as needed. I love it. Other...

And now, if you do a search on the word "Supercalifragilisticexpialidotious" you'll find THIS thread too.... :rolleyes:

I carry a "rollup" snorkle in a pocket for the rare occation when someone insists that I wear one but I never use one other than that (except for actualy snorkeling that is ;) ) My buddy bought 2 and gave me one as he knew I would never have spent(wasted) my money on it...

Hi, I dive dry gloves with the ring system and I don't plan to switch back. My hands used to ache for a day or two after every "cold water" dive. Now they feel great the whole dive and I no longer have any trouble getting out of my gear afterwards due to stiff fingers. I don't seem to...

I've been doing system admin work on Sun servers for the last 5 years... My group maintains about 2000 servers or so at internal and client sites combined. Met my dive buddy at a previous job doing GPS mapping (collecting street access information, etc.) for use in setting up 911 databases...

Now if they can just get to the point where you can watch a movie on that thing we could watch "Jaws" during long deco hangs... Seriously though, moving the redundant timer and depth guage from the wrist to the mask doesn't seem like such a bad idea to me. I'd still keep the analog spg and...

Hey, the tags they sell look exactly like the ones I have. I might have gotten them there... I'm guessing that the first line of tag #1 above should really be: Last First Mi. Then they fit into the 5 lines of text max rule. Maybe I'll pick up a few more of them to attach to some...

Yah, identity theft is an issue but... I pondered the SSN# on the tag and then included it anyway because the first questions at a hospital are: name SSN# insurance info emergency contacts The blood type and alergy line could potentialy speed up any treatment required as well. I...

For me, rec-diving is about anti-stress. Tech-diving is about anti-stress too. It's just for longer stretches at a time. ;) Tech diving does require much more preparation and planning than rec diving and during the dive, you have more tasks that need to be accomplished in the correct...

Hmmm... Any science types around here willing to "safely" find out what happens if you feed a handwarmer pouch elevated levels of O2? I'd be curious to find out what the results of that would be. Nitrox might have a more pronounced effect than air on a handwarmer, especialy under...

This came up in another thread and it was suggested it would make a good thread of it's own. What kind of "get it wet" diving IDs etc do you take on dive trips? What I have is a set of dogtags I had made a few years ago. I just did a quick google search on "custom dog tags" and got a...

[B] Hehe... I had a set of dogtags made up that has my emergency contact info, blood type, "no alergies", the DAN hotline number and my DAN insurance ID number. I usualy wear em whenever I dive and ALWAYS when I'm diving away from home and people who know me. I've never needed them...

Hmmm... I had thought about trying that but I was a bit worried that the higher ppO2 in the drysuit might make it burn "hot" and damage the suit (not to mention me ;) ). How deep did you go, how long and what gas mix were you diving? I keep a handfull of the hand-warmer packets in my...

Hey flw, It's prety much a given that KiC "knows" what he "knows" and noone in this world is gonna make him see there is more than one safe way to do just about anything. If given a chance, I'm prety sure he'd try to give driving tips to Mario Andretti too... Cause after all, Califonians...

:D I just forwarded those links to my mom and stepdad (he's Canadian)... They live in Kingsville (just southeast of Windsor).

Hi Radagalf, I don't know if I just have a thick skin or something but I didn't see much "objectionable" material on that thread... (Unless stuff was deleted or modified before I was able to read it). I kind of like reading the "heated" discussions and even post to them once in a while if...

I've never been OOA but I've donated twice. Once on vacation I donated to another diver so they wouldn't have to miss a safety stop. Second time was at 60 feet with a diver who had breathed their pony bottle by mistake (first time diving with one) and didn't realize the problem till it got...

I dunno if I'd go that far. Maybe if I didn't like them or they were really annoying... ;) I think I'd only dive with them on "easy", shallow, daylight dives for a while. Also be very sure they had the training and their situational awareness and bouyancy skills developed greatly before...