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HOTTIE, STUD, and RICH are all important acronyms, particularly for the female diver who must be particularly diligent in buddy selection. Not sure about the Milly Vinilly poster, but if you donate 15$ to AWARE when you submit your cards, I believe you can upgrade to Vin Diesel. This upgrade...

Nice dendronotus!

Booked the Truth 3 day through Dolphin with no trouble. I think liking your boatmates could be an issue though. On the Truth, no trouble with anyone on board, but quarters were pretty tight.

You haven't??? There's no scuba police, but PADI recommends that you not dive with a buddy until you've taken the Dive Buddy specialty course. It's only 200$, but it teaches you some really critical skills, such as the acronym to remember when selecting a buddy: HOTTIE (Has-experience...

But it never works. I tried to use it a couple of times before I knew better, and both times I mentioned it (no sign on it), 'tude dude acts like I just demanded a kidney, painstakingly and deliberately retrieves like 40$ from somewhere, sticks it in the machine, I take it out, and it goes back...

Though if he's a fat guy in a cap driving a red pickup, RUN!!!

Ooh, Vivalos is good, especially if you want deep fried artichoke hearts. Giannis is great; went there yesterday. I'm a curry-holic, so I'm partial to both Indian Summer and the Clay Oven. The latter has great food and except for one waiter, terrible service, so be prepared. The Fish...

I did Monastery yesterday and it was great. Vis really opened up to be nice and bright, walked in and out without any trouble (except that heart attack-inducing hill back to the car). Some big lings hanging out, and schools of blues winding through the kelp. No landlord worries. Only saw 3...

Hi!! Probably won't be able to make it out this weekend (work, growl). Ah, if you were looking for the blonde without the hood, there'd be the problem. I finally found a hood that didn't press on my neck, and combined with the 49-52 degree temperatures and my interest in not moving on a...

Granted, but it's a t-rex steak, and he wants it back! I wish I were a scuba doc.

Ooooh, North Coast get together. These guys know what grubbing is! Sucked to miss the Bodega one (I'm always a fan of entering the food chain), but had to work.

Very nice!!! It's so... so beautiful!!

Hi all!! I'm back from the dead, having finally given up my wicked ways of 60 hour work weeks with mandatry weekends to return to the reason I got a job in the first place! Diving!! I'm heading out on the ME on Saturday (too lazy to swim), and waiting for a callback from my buddy for...

I've always been interested since I came from a diving family, but my initial attempts when I was 15 failed because though I did great in the pool, I ended up in the hospital getting my tonsils out rather than getting to go do my checkout dives and it was over a year before I got the chance...

And I'll be jealous. Sigh. These 60 hour work weeks are killing me. Money's nice, but I still haven't gotten my sync cord wet!

Only place I could find mine was at http://www.inonamerica.com

Monterey life tends to be pretty hardy. I'll sometimes touch the hardier invertebrates, versus the Philippines where I tried to touch nothing (except a churned up piece of box jelly; ow!) Touching bat stars probably isn't going to cause disruption in the balance, nor sea cucumbers. During...

I'd love to see one too, though not in murky water. They occasionally move through the California waters imitating GWs and scaring the bejeezus out of kayakers by sticking their dorsal fin out of the water ala Jaws. I think they stick fairly far offshore though.

I must have been born at the wrong time. I didn't see Jaws for a VERY long time (until about two years ago), because I didn't have a shark phobia and didn't want one... Then I finally saw the director's cut while at a friend's house, and it was like "Geeze, just kill the big fake shark...

These are stunning! You're quite a photographer.