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Gym ... minimum of four hours per week. Mixture of cardio and strength conditioning, both upper and lower. Finish up every workout with abs sets ... at 66 I'm probably in better shape than I was a decade ago. I still get the aches and pains, but they're more an annoyance than likely to stop me...

Cave dives can be long and tiring ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I'd say it Depends ... :eek: ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

... the best quesadilla I've ever had was at KBR, in Lembeh ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I plan to spend a couple days there on my way north ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

... or just disconnect the darn thing and go with manual inflate ... a bit of a PITA, but not really all that hard to do ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I was molested by a swarm of stellar sea lions ... but they weren't attacking me ... they just wanted to play ... ... big puppies, they are ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

... as would the solo diving ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

That's not GUE ... sounds more like the sort of diving John Chatterton does. ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I'm right on the cusp of retirement, and been spending a lot of time thinking some of the same thoughts. I've had a reasonably successful career, and will have a moderate retirement income. But I didn't start a personal retirement account until I was 40. And then at 49 I picked up scuba diving...

He's not attacking ... he's guarding his territory (usually because of eggs). I've been charged at by a trigger fish ... never bitten by one. I'm aware enough to have avoided it. But that does remind me ... I was once bitten by a clownfish ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I used to routinely offer an extra dive ... in some cases more than one ... to give a student more time to practice a skill before calling the class done. Oddly, I never once had a student object when I told them I thought we should do another dive and work on whatever skill I thought they...

It isn't just SoCal, and it doesn't need to go back that far. I've witnessed it just in the past dozen years, since I've been doing photography, here in Puget Sound. Dive sites where I once found multiple species of nudibranchs on every dive I now rarely find them ... and usually only a single...

I've seen a LOT of changes in diving just since I started in 2001. And I don't think it's any more resistant to change than any other recreational activity. Equipment's expensive, and if it works why replace it? I'm still riding the bike I purchased in the mid-80's, and skis I acquired in the...

I think my OW training was pretty good ... but dated. Some of the skills we were taught were more based on tradition than practicality, and although I did get some benefit from them I though the time could've been better spent focusing on and repeating practice with skills more applicable to...

Pete, note the difference between my posts to others and your posts to me. The difference is that I addressed the content of their posts, not questioned them personally. You don't do that. Not now, not ever. You attack people you disagree with personally. And I'm tired of it. Pete, nobody in...

... the biggest problem with bad advice from dive pros is that people tend to take it seriously ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Pete ... you have a nasty habit of exaggerating claims about what other people said. That makes it difficult to talk to you sometimes. No, I never suggested any of those things. I can't for the life of me imagine why you think I did. This is a board with special rules. If you can't discuss...

... and that's why I said sometimes ... because sometimes it is the right choice. But now consider the majority of new divers who have no aspirations of becoming tech divers, paying $100+ per fill for helium, or who have limited income to go out and enjoy the activity. Should they use those...

... and in real life she was even better than her posts ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)