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  1. TXScubaBear

    CSSP Dive Report 7-3-09

    Everyone please feel free to add their reports to this is you want~! Saw Alan (TexDiveGuy) there at the entrance, was GREAT seeing him up and about!! Got to meet Timeliner...it pays to wear your Swamp Divers T-shirt, you get to meet folks here on the board! First dive about 45 minutes, visited...
  2. TXScubaBear

    CSSP Conditions 6-19

    WOW....water at surface about 78 degrees; first thermo at 27', temp drop to 68, second thermo at 33', temp drop to 64. Had partly cloudy sky, when the sun was out viz was over 20' easily, even when the sun went behind a cloud viz was good....one could get used to that but then again, no one...
  3. TXScubaBear

    Scuba Henderson Thermoprene 5mm Wetsuit XL- NEW

    NEW, never worn, Henderson Thermoprene 5mm wetsuit in size XL; I've always used a 3mm and thought I'd need a 5mm, never used it, never has seen water. $85 plus shipping- if Priority it runs about $13.95. thanks! ps- this one is black with blue trim
  4. TXScubaBear

    Cssp 5-8-09

    We found the 'gator.......accidentally.... Ain't he scary??? Guardian of the SS Minnow
  5. TXScubaBear

    CSSP Friday May 8th

    Jeff (co-worker and dive buddy) and I are going to the swamp Friday if anyone wants to join in, we'll be there 10-ish over by the copse of trees to the right when you come in. I feel the need to get submerged!!!
  6. TXScubaBear

    Merry Christmas to all my fellow Swampers!

    And a prosperous and WET new year!!!!
  7. TXScubaBear

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    To all my TSD friends that I've met and have yet to meet!
  8. TXScubaBear

    CSSP Sat 10-4

    Was a nice day, air temp at 0900 was a nice 70; surface water temp 78 until around 37' then about 74. Got to meet a couple more folks, YellowfinKunkfish and her friend (sorry, cannot remember her "handle"). Did 2 dives with a co-worker friend of mine, had a good 'ol time. Don't expect nice viz...
  9. TXScubaBear

    CSSP Sat, Sept 6th

    Lookin' for dive buddies...need to get submerged and de-stressed.... thanks
  10. TXScubaBear

    Going to CSSP Friday Aug 29th....

    If anyone would like to join me....thought I'd start planning now, start the holiday weekend early!! :14:
  11. TXScubaBear

    CSSP Friday Aug 8th

    A friend and I are going out there to CSSP bright and early to check out the plane and what-not; his first time (my second) ...so feel free to join us or drop by to say howdy!
  12. TXScubaBear

    Lookin' for dive buddy- CSSP- Fri Oct 12th

    Thinking about taking a vacation day and having a dive day there~! I've never been there so it'll be new to me if anyone wants to buddy up with me, I'd like to do 2, maybe 3 dives and just have a nice day of it. Can't do the weekend because of daughters birthday, plus I've heard Friday is a...
  13. TXScubaBear

    Completed AOW today!

    What a great weekend at Lake Travis in Austin TX doing our dives for AOW class! And thanks to the Scuba Toys gents who educated us- Allen, Mac and Greg! Was a great and challenging and rewarding weekend doing our dives! One more step in my education process; now I just need to plan some...
  14. TXScubaBear

    Veo 100 Nx

    I have a brand spankin' new wrist computer and I see on the Oceanic site there are 2 types of lens protectors, film and plastic- which one is better or preferred? After getting this "investment", I sure want to protect it properly! Thanks
  15. TXScubaBear

    We're Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack!

    Thanks SB, so NICE to be HOME!!
  16. TXScubaBear

    Playa Del Carmen Report

    Still here, leaving on Monday, I did my first dive with Scuba Playa downtown- great bunch of people, Alberto was our DM and I'd recommend him in a heartbeat! We dove the Jardinas (Gardens) reef, down to about 42 feet, average was 40 feet, never have seen a lobster as long as my arm! Going to...
  17. TXScubaBear

    Sealife SL300 Shark Diver Camera Question

    We're fixing to leave for Cancun and this will be my first ocean dive; can the SL300 be loaded with a 36 exp roll of 35mm film? (versus 24 exp) Thanks all
  18. TXScubaBear

    Now OW certified!

    Just got home from our OW certificatiion lake weekend, what a riot! It was absolutely fantabulous, words just cannot describe the difference between a pool dive and the OW dives at the lake! Special thanks to our instructor Gary and DM's Jerry and Doc who worked hard to ensure our success! And...
  19. TXScubaBear

    As the excitement builds...

    Getting nervous but yet excited, I start classes at my LDS Sept 19th, doing the lake OW the 30th/Oct 1st....... Been thru the book...gonna go thru it again; did the DVD's as well. Only thing I am concerned about is the breathing via scuba without a mask underwater....they make it look so...
  20. TXScubaBear

    Howdy from Texas!

    Live in the D/FW metroplex and excited to be starting lessons Sept 12th! Hopefully a friend of mine will not change his mind and sign on with me to have a dive buddy; my wife "would" do this with me but is deathly afraid of the water. Me, I've been like a fish since my dad taught me to swim...
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