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So I have been contemplating a metal detector and would like to have some input from divers and swampers about their thoughts. Currently, to purchase a land/water unit the price difference over just a land unit is considerable. So with the divers that use metal detectors what is your...

I noticed this on WetPixel. Link- Defending the Vandenberg: the video :: Wetpixel.com Very cool little vid of playing chase. Reminds me of this video done in a blue hole. Link- Guillaume Nery underwater base jump at Dean’s Blue Hole :: Wetpixel.com Have a great weekend and...

Well, this weekend I had to laugh at myself. My wife and I bought a new smaller pool for my young son. So she asks me to blow it up--- I am thinking you must be nuts we have over eight scuba tanks. So this is a new self certifying class. You need one blow up pool, a regulator set and a...

This is a link to a Good Morning America video clip of two divers, diving into the oil spill. I was amazed by the way that the oil was not sitting on the surface but instead mixing in the water and making what looks like columns of oil and chemicals. Looks almost like oil and vinegar salad...

Nitek3 (Nitek3 unit has a potential buyer so it is being held awaiting confirmation of payment 10/22) Pictures- ScubaBoard Gallery - Gear Sale This was the premier Diverite computer for a number of years and has since been discontinued. The computer can run in simple air mode for...

This is too funny... We joke around about the perch at CSSP but this is crazy. From Yahoo News- GENEVA (AFP) – Police divers have ended the reign of terror of a huge fish that was attacking swimmers in a Swiss lake. The zander, which was 70 centimetres (two feet three inches) long and...

We have a meeting tomorrow night at Railhead Smoke House in Fort Worth. Meeting time is 5 p.m. and will probably run for two hours. No Fee's or Due's- just buy your own beer and BBQ. We talk about rebreathers, diving them, supplies, training and vacations. Anyone who is in the area who is...

Group therapy stated at 9:30am saturday. Water temp was reasonable in a 5mm suit with full hood and 2mm gloves. Did 1-1/2 hour on a single steel 98 and NO weight in 5mm suit. :) Temp was great to 15 ft and then thermocline at twenty and you could feel it about 25 ft so forty feet was the...

For anyone looking for used drysuits. There are used drysuits for sale on Craigslist for the DFW area. search 'drysuit' and 'dry suit." U.S.I.A. Drysuit (NEVER USED) http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/spo/1069913482.html O'Neill Dry Suit - Price Reduced DUI Dry Suit ($300.00 Med-Large DUI...

Just seeing where people go for certain rebreather supplies and gas. Looking for dive shops that support rebreathers and gas supplies. Gas needs to be 100% O2 and Diluent for the units. Diluent can be any where from 21% and up. Divers may ask for specific gas content (nitrox mix) for...

This is a twenty minute speech about rebreathers, Ichthyology (study of fish and as such makes you a fish nerd? and the hazards he has encountered. One thing perhaps missing from this is Richard's speech is his own modesty as to his accomplishments. He has consistently dove in seriously...

It seems that US Airways lost a small jet in Hudson River river. New Dive Site... Regards, Andrew Link: US Airways jet down in NY river, passengers rescued | Reuters From Reuters- By Edith Honan and Claudia Parsons NEW YORK (Reuters) - A US Airways jet with about 150 people on board...

Well it is with great enthusiasm and joy that I get to introduce Ian Rowley. Ian joined us Jan 07 at 10:34am at a healthy 8lbs and 12ozs. Mum and baby pulled through fine and are resting at home comfortably. It is hard to express my joy and excitement of his birth. To say it was spiritual...

saturday scooter dive at CSSP. 70 minutes at 30 ft around the lake on scooters starting at the North staircase. Vis was a good 6 to 10 ft. in less traveled areas; lower around the usual places. Temp was in the mid seventies and in a 5mm awesome; hood made it great. We stopped at the plane...

I came across this site and was impressed with the predictions it makes. Not to mention the ability to turn on and off modeling and to use proir storms. Track Hurricane Ike / Stormpulse / Hurricane tracking, mapping The outcome for IKE is going to be interesting. Later, Andrew

PK Dive report We started out at 7am loading up the Bass Boat and heading to picked up a friend in Weatherford. Two of us were diving Nitrox HP100’s and Gary was diving his Kiss rebreather (drool.) We all prepped the gear to predive and backed in the boat before launch. Simple drive out to...

June Images from Cozumel- (Alan- see I'm sharing :D ) Link- Picasa Web Albums - Andrew R This is my second vacation with this camera setup; Sp-350 and Oly case. This year’s scare was dropping the camera while resolving a immediate problem; it was not on a lanyard and I had to backtrack to...

June Images from Cozumel- Link- Picasa Web Albums - Andrew R This is my second vacation with this camera setup; Sp-350 and Oly case. This year’s scare was dropping the camera while resolving an immediate problem; it was not on a lanyard and I had to backtrack to find it.- Yes my air...

Posted under the Cozumel board. http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/cozumel/240789-cave-diving-cozumel.html However, most of my gang hangs out here. Regards, Andrew

I contacted Yucatech diving through email and set up plans for a single day of diving with German Yanez. Sure enough the day of the event I was picked up at the front of my resort and off we went. Nothing like three divers, three set of doubles in a jeep with oxygen and dive gear. The group...