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    NELD Roll Call

    Ooh! Ooh! I just joined the NSF! I've been diving with a few of them. Does that get me on the list? :D
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    What is weight of the biggest lobster........

    Since we are sharing lobstah photos... Here are my amazingly average bugs! Those are three average (yet nice looking) bugs I've snagged... The biggest? A whopping... 2lbs. :D
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    What is weight of the biggest lobster........

    I've seen a few lobsterzillas (one had to be close to 35-40lbs) but as far as taking them? Standard 1-2lbs. I'm lucky if they are of legal size anyway! :)
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    Torpedo Ray encounter Folly Cove 8/22/10

    Just this past Friday, I too saw a 5ft torpedo ray at Lanes. Thing was HUGE. It scared me it was so big. We swam along the rock/sand line to the left. There he was, right below us. He wasn't covered in sand at all; he was beautiful. He let us hang out for a few minutes with him. My buddy got...
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    Where did you dive today?

    I went to Old Garden Beach in Rockport. Conditions were not good. The waves and surge were pretty gnarly getting out and we kicked out pretty far to make sure we were through the worst of the waves. My buddy and I dropped down about 3 feet before we thumbed it. I couldn't see my bright yellow...
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    Scuba Diving: One of the most dangerous activities in the world?

    This is true, but both sports can very, very dangerous for the untrained or unskilled along with "risky" for even the highly trained. There is also a fairly high mortality rate in equestrian sports along with the high injury rate. It's not a super-high mortality rate as you know, but still, I...
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    Scuba Diving: One of the most dangerous activities in the world?

    "News reoprt" aside, I am an equestrian and I can say without a doubt equestrian sports are far more dangerous than diving. You can not find an equestrian who has not been laid up, sent to the ER, or has gnarly scars/bruises/et cetera from some kind of injury. Sprains, strains, and automobiles...
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    Ugh - no diving for 6 weeks!

    Rest up and enjoy the drugs! Be very, very careful not to re-injure yourself. You may be feeling better, but it doesn't always mean you are! Want a story to try to make you feel better? After two days of cancelled dive plans, I was pumped to be going diving today. Unfortunately, I woke up at...
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    Scubaboard challenge

    Thank you for this post. I am brand spankin' new to diving and I have been "adopted" by a couple of divers, one a divemaster, the other going for his instructors cert. I know I can go to them with anything and they will help me out and answer my questions. While diving, they make me...
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    Would you still get involved?

    I have not been rescue trained, I am only just OW certified. I know for darn sure if I was the one needing rescue, I would want the ones doing the rescue to worry more about saving my life than the camera pointed at them. It is with this notion that I would do whatever possible (be it...
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    First experience of panic

    I kind of want to put that in my signature. It's a good lesson. :D
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    First experience of panic

    My third certification dive (a whopping 5 dives ago), I felt panic. It wasn't nervousness or anxiety, it was sheer my-brain-stopped-working panic. And I was still on the surface. The day before, I had a bit of trouble descending as I was under-weighted. The morning in question, we did a...
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    Where did you dive today?

    Friday was my second ever post-certification dive and my DM friend and I dived Fort Sewell, Marblehead. I burned through my air pretty quickly, but we still wandered down to about 40 ft. We went lobstering (all too small) but we DID find an American flag, a cell phone, a golf ball, and 3...
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    Buoyancy/weighting questions from a very new diver.

    While we learned this in our training, it does take just using it to really get it. I am starting to get it. While swimming, say there is a tall rock on front of me. I take a big breath, up and over, exhale to get back down. Same with navigating through lobster trap/buoy lines. But here is where...
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    Buoyancy/weighting questions from a very new diver.

    I am a brand spanking new diver (just logged in my 3rd and 4th post-OW-certification dives yesterday morning) so please excuse the severe idiot newbie-ness. :) I have a couple questions about buoyancy and weighting. I feel like I am starting to get the hang of this whole diving thing, and while...
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    Where did you dive today?

    Thank you! It felt AMAZING to actually just go dive! I can't wait for the next one! :dork2:
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    Buddy Diving - Can be more Harm than Good

    I am BRAND NEW to diving and while I already have *a couple* of diver friends, if it weren't for insta-buddies, I'd have no one with whom to dive. I don't know many people yet, and even those divers I do know above water, I don't know that well below water. Just from my sheer newness, I am an...
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    Where did you dive today?

    I made my first official dive as a certified diver (yipee! :D) this morning at Old Orchard Beach in Rockport, MA. It was just about low tide so we didn't get much below 20ft (23ft max) so we hunted around in the rocks. There were a TON of lobsters, but no keepers. I grabbed two that were just...
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    SeaQuest Pro XLT

    Is it is still available, I am looking to buy it. I can send you my info.
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    SeaQuest Pro XLT

    If this is still available, I am very interested. I dove sans wetsuit in one of these and LOVED it. It was a size M/L and while it was the right length, it was a bit snug around. I was thinking a L might be better as I will be wearing a 7mm. What price would you accept?
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