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... well, there is that too. Where I live almost all the diving requires you to gear up and walk some distance to enter the water. Some of those walks are quite long, or involve some degree of climbing ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

... but many divers don't always dive that way ... not even the ones who know what they're doing. Horizontal trim is great for when you're moving through the water, but as a photographer I spend an awful lot of my time hovering ... often in quite non-horizontal positions ... As to the...

Uh, uh, uh ... bad form. What's said in The Pub stays in The Pub, and you've been told repeatedly to take none of it seriously. And yet here you are, in a protected forum, using very Pub-like tactics. But I reject your Appeal to Authority on the basis that it doesn't make any sense. You can...

Likewise, Dr. Bill ... but I normally dive tanks with sufficient gas to go into deco and honor the obligation. ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I began diving at age 49. I don't regret not learning earlier ... it just meant I had the time and resources to do all the other things I did when I was younger. Had I began diving earlier I probably wouldn't have done them. As for the OP, I don't think she's trolling ... I think she just...

No I am not ... stop diving that site for a month and tell us what happens? You're deluding yourself again ... lionfish are like cockroaches, turn on the light and you won't see any ... but that doesn't mean they're not there ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Particularly in Florida ... Burmese python, anyone? Someone already mentioned the nutria, elsewhere in the south. Starlings? The feds kill millions of them every year, trying to keep them in check. They've been doing so for more than 100 years ... yet there's more starlings now than there were...

... and after we're done testing it on lionfish, develop a similar strategy for humans ... it would solve a lot more than the lionfish problem ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I never suggested that man can't impact a species ... of course they can. Humans impact thousands of species ... many to the point of extinction. Lionfish, unfortunately, aren't one of them. What I said was that your attempts to control the species are ineffective. You can't control the...

I'm going to have one day available for diving on May 20 (Saturday) in Cabo Pulmo. Anybody have any recommendations for a dive op, or what to see? ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

Curious ... what native species are you referring to? ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

I name it ineffective, as Doc correctly states. Lionfish are prodigiously fecund ... they mature to reproductive capability in less than a year, and females can lay up to 2 million eggs per year. There simply aren't enough spearfishing divers around to do much to keep them in check. And even if...

No ... it's buddy diving separation. Solo diving involves planning and preparing to dive solo. Buddy diving separation is an accident that involves no planning or preparation whatsoever ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

On air ... easy to exceed NDL on an AL80. But I dive neither air nor AL80's ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

... what I did in my 50's is not what I do now ... I just don't tolerate cold like I once did ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

That turtle on the bow is George ... he lives there, and he'll follow you right up the line back to the boat and sit on the surface watching as you get back on board ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)

We had a golf ball boat at one of our local dive sites (Three Tree North). I was there when it got started. TTN is a shore dive, running alongside a residential beach. One of the homes belongs to a guy who uses his front porch as a driving range ... and the area in front of his house is littered...

Hmmm ... things I never thought I would see when I took up scuba diving ... - the inside of a submerged cave - a wreck laying in 250 feet of water in Lake Superior - a baby octopus emerging from an egg - sh-sh-shark from less than three feet away - somebody ... anybody ... telling me they...

... usually because it's the only way you can ever get your buddy to look toward you ... and even then it's not guaranteed. But tank bangers are generally overused ... even (particularly in some cases) by dive guides and DM's. And they become increasingly annoying as the dive goes on, to the...

My experience in the Great Lakes was on a four-pack boat ... four divers and a skipper. No DM on the boat, much less in the water ... ... Bob (Grateful Diver)