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You do laundry and find O-rings in the washer that were in your pockets. Oops. :D

You decide that neoprene needs to be bottled as a perfume/cologne and decide that it needs to be called "Wet Rubber No. 5". Yes, there was alcohol involved with that brainstorm. :beerchug:

Hey lady!!! Good to see my partner in crime back on SB. :D

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I assisted as DM with an open water class a few months ago and was shocked when they pulled out shiny PADI books just for learning about computers. I knew PADI was "doing away" with teaching tables, but didn't realize exactly how MUCH they were really doing away with. While I think that teaching...

I was 24. Got certified thanks to my ex. It's the only good thing that came out of that relationship and I'm now working my way through Divemaster. :)

Thanks for sharing. That link needs a warning label though for anyone that was there. I just lost my breakfast after seeing Ken's picture. I guess the image of him after being pulled out of the water is more vivid in my memory than I thought. :depressed: I hope they have an answer soon.

As of today: Kankakee: 16-year-old's death still under investigation

Can I just say/ask that this be placed in a separate thread elsewhere? I think that this is a good and very valid question but I just don't feel that this should be discussed here out of respect for the diver, the family and everyone involved in the rescue as this topic could get ugly and...

This was one of those days where the viz was zippy. We had our students hold hands or hold on to a short line as to not get separated and stressed to them that if they got lost to surface, hang tight and we'd surface and find them. I keep waiting for someone to pinch me and none of this...

I was at Haigh yesterday assisting with some OW students check-out dives. I was on the dock when the diver was recovered and pulled out. I have some info but I am not sure if it is 100% correct so I will not open my mouth until I know a) it's true and b) it's okay to share. I do know and am sure...

There's Strode Lake in Canton, IL. I've never been there and don't know much about it other than that I think max depth is around 60 feet. No fill station there or anything like that. Other than that it's just Haigh, Pearl, Mermet or Lake Michigan for Illinois.

Two words: Dive Caddy All of your gear in one place and with you on the plane. (Unless the airline employees throw a fit) I took mine to Bonaire in February and didn't have any issues.:)

Ahh yes. I've done something simlilar. I had my rig setting on the back of our truck in Bonaire on a windy day. I looked away for one second to say something to my buddy and WHAM! Down goes my rig landing on the reg. snapping my octo hose right off. Thankfully that's all that was damaged and I...

I'm so very sorry for your loss. He sounds like he was a great man. I will keep you and yoru family in my thoughts and prayers.

I bought a White's Fusion Bullet drysuit. (I won't have it until the end of the month though.) I was totally anti-drysuit due to prices and a bad experience on a drysuit demo day until I had my stroke in March and now NEED one due to nerve damage. Water temps below 81 degrees hurt...so I had no...

My ex got me into diving (opposite of your situation) and during the time we were together, everything was great. HOWEVER...I found that once one of us (myself) became more serious than the other about diving and going pro things as far as diving went downhill fast. He didn't take things as...

I threw my neck out on my 50th dive in Bonaire, kept diving in pain for a couple of days, came home, went to the chiro and ended up in the ICU with a torn vertebral artery that caused 4 strokes. THAT'S how I celebrated my 50th dive.:depressed::shakehead: Hopefully 100 will be better...

I'm friends with my instructor (and his wife who is a DM) and I think that will only make me a BETTER DM in the end. He pushes me to reach a standard above and beyond what I ever thought I was able to. We hang out and go on dive trips together and even then when I'm on "vacation" he's pushing me...

Agreed! Doug is made of awesome and hopefully I'll be diving all toasty warm in a Fusion Bullet soon!!! :D