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    Broke one of my own rules - I dived with Hunters....

    I typically don't buddy up with hunters either.... I'm a hunter and like to hunt alone...It is safer...I find more fish...and I don't have to share... :) I need to get back in the water to see if I can get a third halibut....I've only gotten two this season so far...
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    Ruptured blood vessels in eyes

    I'm not sure I follow you...The uncontrolled ascent would relieve the pressure of a mask squeeze, right? (unless the mask somehow got overpressured due to the mask strap not allowing air to leave the mask) An uncontrolled descent would certainly be a possible cause of a mask squeeze... ;)
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    Looking For Spearfishing Info

    www.spearboard.com is also a good place for info on hunting...
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    How much would you have been willing to pay a good instructor?

    And, if a guy came along that said you could learn all you need to be comfortable and certified for $300, you'd have considered it, right? Even if more experienced folks told you that the $500 guy was gold plated? When I learned, I was a bit younger...(it was 1983, after all) and I had...
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    How much would you have been willing to pay a good instructor?

    wow...a 40 hour long class...with only 4 per class...I'm not sure how you'd fill all of the time...Would you take all 40 hours before knowing if you passed? Or would you be certifiable after 25 with the remainder of the time to build skill and confidence? How many beach dives? Is the cost...
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    California Halibut Hunting

    I speared a 29" halibut (my first...never have gotten one before) just a bit east of Coral St. in approx 42' of water yesterday... We were boat diving, and I was the only lucky one out of four hunters...So, the flatties are still scarce. Four nice filets...Yum!
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    SCUBA accident in Pool - Scuba Instructor Drowns While Testing Equipment

    I would wonder if one or both of the the other two instructors were there all the time and basically said "go ahead, we'll watch you"... It would seem to not be a normal ooa, since it is normally quite easy to surface from ten feet...
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    SCUBA accident in Pool - Scuba Instructor Drowns While Testing Equipment

    It does seem odd...Two instructors pulled a third out of the water at a high school. No details as to how the three instructors came to be at a high school, separately or together, etc.
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    diver dies off redondo beach (puget sound)

    Being respectful by carefully controlling what you say is much more palatable than someone telling me how or what to think...Being carefuly what you think....I'm not even sure how to do that... I truly hope you misspoke... I commend the woman for having the presence of mind to help her...
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    North Coast Campout and Party reminder

    I'll put it on my schedule as a tentative plan... I'm so much a novice AB hunter that my first AB trip is this coming weekend, but I'm an avid diver and spearfisherman... Sounds like fun!
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    new TSA rules prohibiting lighters on aircraft

    But, as I recall, you can put ammunition in checked bags, so long as you declare it...or did they close that crazy nonsense...? I think you can still put an unloaded handgun in your checked bags also, so long as you declare it...
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    DM swim times?

    The instructor I was considering DM for told me they were endurance tests that had to be completed one after another...Obviously, the pool tests would be separated from the ocean swim by the time it takes to get to the ocean... I ended up not doing DM, for a different reason...
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    Abalone Tips

    I'm getting mine this week...I've got an ab trip planned for May 7. When we aren't ab hunting, we'll be off in a nearby sheltered cove spearfishing... Now, if I get my kayak by then..... (!!)
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    Open Water; Monterey Style

    Did she even have an argon tank? Or is this just cool journalism?
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    WHY Dive shops make you Feel GUILTY ???

    touche! Agreed...
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    WHY Dive shops make you Feel GUILTY ???

    If I need to get something to fit, and I use the LDS to get it to fit right, I buy from the LDS unless the price is astronomically high... As for warranty, it is certainly an issue, but I've only used a warranty once in my entire life(on a car I bought; it needed a $200 "customization" in the...
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    Airfill sales tax

    I think that it can probably be classified as either... I think it is more important how the tax man classifies it...Perhaps the tax man doesn't classify it and the shop is taking the safe route.
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    Roatan and the Bay Islands

    Works for me...I use comcast...copied the website URL from the post... Sean
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    Diveyak?

    Thanks! Another place I found is diveus.com, out of San Diego. They did me right when I ordered a SeaDoo scooter six or eight months ago. I'll call both. :)
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