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    What made you fall in love with scuba diving?

    Spending summers at the Jersey shore I was an avid snorkeler from the age of 9. Scuba was just the next logical step.
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    Shallow water depth gauge

    They have a certain charm, and the sound quality was superior.
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    Shallow water depth gauge

    Analog is superior to those simpleminded number gauges, just as script is superior to print.
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    MFA not working?

    Master of Fine Arts?
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    SS United States coming to Destin?

    An incredible addition to the Gulf of Mexico.
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    Starting fins, mask and snorkel

    Unless you plan on discarding these items after your training is over and buying new items I'd make fit and comfort my main issues, with an assumption that I'll be using the equipment for years down the road.
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    Looking for other Kosher Divers

    Mashgiach. Are Presbyterians welcome? Asking for a friend.
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    When is a skill "mastered"?

    Mastery of a skill is different from mere competence. Even a highly competent person may not have reached the mastery level, which can be defined as knowing something well enough to teach it.
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    Vessel Divers Searching Sunk Superyacht- Sicily

    The Italian frogmen fought for their country. Otto Skorzeny was a first-rate commando, but he was a Nazi and an SS officer.
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    Greetings from a snorkeler

    In Curacao look for spots where the reef rubble exists close to shore, and places where there is some structure near shore. Dock pilings are great places to observe. I don't advise new first time snorkelers to go to places where they cannot stand up when they want to, and I definitely do not...
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    Want to Hire a Deep Sea Diver for Fish Collection

    Some of us SW fish keepers catch our own specimens. Most of what I have are tropical strays that the Gulf Stream brings up to NJ in late summer. The uncollected fish all die by November when water temps drop too low for them. I also have a couple of fish that I collected in the Caribbean...
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    Wild Speculation about ancient Octopi

    You underestimate the profound effect of French and Latin on the core vocabulary we use in everyday life. Words like profound, effect, and vocabulary. Oktopous is a purely Greek word and pluralizing it with a Latin suffix is vulgar.
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    Wild Speculation about ancient Octopi

    Like 'gunsel' being taken for gunman, it's ignorance that prevails. The evolution of a composite language like English from Middle and Old English is the result of many influences, not simply usage. Still, words of Greek origin do not use Latin plural structures.
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    Wild Speculation about ancient Octopi

    The correct plurals of octopus are octopods or octopuses. Octopi is wrong, a common solecism.
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    Crocodile??

    A couple of times in St. Elizabeth parish near Black River back when I lived in Jamaica.
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    Crocodile??

    Caribbean crocodiles are not particularly dangerous. I've dived in waters with them in Jamaica dozens of times. They are nothing like their African counterparts.
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    Question Where to Swim with Whales

    Dominica has whales present throughout the year, but they are numerous inshore from November to March. I've seen them many times from a dive boat, but never got close enough to swim with them. At least one specialist operation on the island works to get people together with whales.
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    Unknown 3 full face snorkel mask drownings in Hawaii

    Unborn child. The woman was pregnant.
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    Over 75 and I am not allowed to dive?

    I'm sure the insurance the OP was referencing was the dive operator's liability insurance, not personal DAN insurance.
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