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  1. ClayJar

    Bonaire Dive and Adventure made us happy.

    We just got back from our two weeks in Bonaire, and while I've got a good bit of work left to do before I get around to posting a trip summary report, I wanted to get one little bit on here early. We stayed at Den Laman and used Bonaire Dive and Adventure for our diving, and the first week...
  2. ClayJar

    REintroducing myself at last...

    Buy a house, spend a year gutting and rebuilding it, start working on your Instructor course, and then have just about everything stolen (in *two* burglaries)... It's a recipe for falling off the side of the world (somewhere on the other side of "Here be monsters"). Still, life goes on, eh...
  3. ClayJar

    Holiday greetings thread

    Dork Divers Have Fun. That said, who wouldn't want additional [-]excuses[/-] opportunities for having *extra* fun? With that in mind, I figured I'd start a thread for us to post holiday greetings, but not just for the capital-H Holidays. No, we need not limit ourselves in our holidays, just...
  4. ClayJar

    Dork Divers' Friday Feghoot

    It just felt like we needed a little something to brighten the almost-spring hanging over the place, so how about a Friday Feghoot. (A Feghoot is a particular type of fun story, one fresh example of which is located below.) Anyway, feel free to add on, comment, or just chat. There's little...
  5. ClayJar

    Atlanta area dive shop suggestions for OW class?

    Got a call from my Atlanta sister this past weekend. Apparently, she's now quite interested in taking a scuba class. Baton Rouge is a bit far away for her to take the class here, and I'm just a NAUI DM, not an instructor. *Anyway*, does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations...
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    Dive Report: La Dania's Leap to Karpata

    First, a few vitals about La Dania's Leap to Karpata: It's roughly 635 yards (0.36 miles) walking between Karpata's exit and La Dania's Leap's entry. It's roughly 600 yards (about 1/3 mile) in the water. There is about a 30-yard hike and stair climb from the exit at Karpata back up to the...
  7. ClayJar

    Avast, me hearties!

    We be in the presence of a glorious day!
  8. ClayJar

    Chat word filter, one step too far.

    In the chat, typing "cummerbund" turns into "#$%^&* erbund". Also, "cumulative" turns into "#$%^&* ulative". (Apparently both one and two 'm's are filtered.) We're really not talking dirty in there. We were just talking about dangling consoles, really! ;) Can somebody give the filter a...
  9. ClayJar

    My personal BSDME.

    Okay, so I'm really looking forward to Bonaire (less than 90 days left, now). Add the fact that I just finished my NAUI Divemaster cert, and I've got a little "spare" time on my hands (relatively speaking). Now, toss in the little detail that I own a laminating machine (for underwater board...
  10. ClayJar

    Breathe Bonaire's webcam dislodged?

    When I opened my wake-up tab collection in Firefox this morning, I couldn't help but notice that something was amiss. The Breathe Bonaire underwater webcam had been dislodged somehow. Whatever it was happened between 14:00 and 15:00 yesterday (those images will be valid until that time today...
  11. ClayJar

    Wish me luck...

    Actually, on second thought, wish me *smart*. :biggrin: We finished the NAUI DM classwork this past Monday evening. We still have pool stuff to go, and I have to work at least two checkout trips. The second checkout isn't until the end of April, so technically, I could wait until the last...
  12. ClayJar

    Generic running updates thread -or- "Going Pro's Goings Prose"

    Well, here I am again, wondering which thread should be graced by my latest writings about another requirement met or an additional class complete. It occurs to me that I'm not sure whether any particular thread is best-suited for such trivial matters as mentioning which skills have been done...
  13. ClayJar

    ISOSAD: Yacht (Sea Dice) Tournament planning thread.

    Okay, so the topic came up of what to do when you don't have local ISOSAD divers to play games with. That got me to thinking, "Is there any game that ISOSADers could play with each other that doesn't need us to actually be on the same dives?" Well, chess-by-mail has a long-standing history...
  14. ClayJar

    What do you do top-side to enhance your diving?

    The divemaster course I've been waiting for and working toward finally begins in earnest this week. One small part of the course, as anyone who has taken one will recall, are the swim tests. To prepare myself for them, I'm starting a little "zero to one mile nonstop in six weeks" schedule...
  15. ClayJar

    Just a little lagniappe.

    Last month, my most capable buddy was doing her NAUI Master Scuba Diver checkout. Included among the eight or nine dives, we had a night dive on a bridge span. (Panama City Beach, Florida's Bridge Span 14 -- sand at about 72', top around 45-ish.) It was a site we've visited many times. Few...
  16. ClayJar

    ISOSAD: Monopoly Challenge

    Okay, it's that time again. Time for an ISOSAD challenge and discussion of epic proportions. This thread's challenge is simple: We must come up with all the specific requirements and procedures to successfully plan and implement a game of Monopoly... underwater, of course. (Obviously, the...
  17. ClayJar

    Signatures and the TOS

    I was just re-reading the TOS (as I do every so often to keep myself informed), and I noticed one line that hadn't caught my eye before: There are so many graphics in sigs that I didn't give it a second thought when I wrote up the code to make my auto-generated instant maze sig graphic, but...
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    All in the name of science...

    As part of a special day celebration (perhaps my birthday, perhaps Slashdot's 10th anniversary, or perhaps Guy Fawkes Day... it doesn't really matter), the thought occurred to me that it would be entertaining to have a "birthday cake" underwater. Obviously, once the thought had occurred to me...
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    I think we may have another member...

    Ponder, if you will, the following excerpt from the response of a certain famous person when asked what they would do if they weren't doing what they're famous for doing: Now, while considering that, consider that said famous person is widely known to enjoy scuba diving. You can even google up...
  20. ClayJar

    Seeking the elusive SDI Solo Diver course...

    Okay, I've been solo diving for quite some time. The 100 logged dive requirement is well behind me. I've been diving with redundant air (pony or larger) for far longer than that. The age requirement, 21, is almost frighteningly far behind (although I'm still young enough to be frightened by...
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