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I’ll take them. But I can’t come get them until this weekend. Is that okay?

When I had the procedure done, my surgeon recommended staying out for 3-4 weeks. He said that his primary concern was the possibility of infection due to water getting in my eyes, not the pressure associated with depth. Brian

I'll second the recommendation for the Great House in Belize City. We stayed there a few years ago before a live-aboard trip. Well worth the cost. You can walk over the heart of down town, and the restaurant was great as was the atmostphere. Brian

As others have said, more watts basically means more light. While this is usually a good thing, it also means that the lamp draws more current and may lead to backscatter problems in an environment with lots of particulate in the water. Kelvin is the unit used to express (where lights are...

Nice rhetoric. In the passage I quoted Pendergast simply said that the physical principles that apply to airfoil and propeller design may not necessarily translate directly to the design of fins. I don't know how the heck you leapt from that to 'aerodyamically impossible.' :shakehead Look...

Testing by the SEALS huh? I'm not sure that their forte is equipment review... What we really need is a true scientific review, performed by someone who has a background is hyperbarics and physiology. Where might I find something like that...? Oh wait, it's been posted here already...

Nothing. I was simply saying, just because you did it w/an instructor doesn't mean you can do it on your own. Instructors (Nick, in this case) often have very carefully chosen locations where they do this type of thing. The reasons that Nick chose Jackson may not have been made clear to the...

As others (and jeepchick herself) have said, there's nothing wrong with a guided dive by an instructor. However, that simple drop down the chimney is all it takes to cross the line from cavern to cave. She mentioned doing an essay on Exley's book, and I was simply trying to point out that the...

Okay, let me make sure I have this straight: *You were at Jackson Blue Spring, in Marianna, FL. *You were in a Cavern Class. *You were 93 feet deep. I dive Jackson pretty regularly myself. If you're in the Cavern Zone (i.e. within sight of daylight) there is NO WAY you're also 93'...

Oooh look...there's a puff of smoke coming from the grassy knoll. Brian

I would think that it would be "dee eye are" since it's an acronym for "Doing It Right" as opposed to an abbreviation for a longer word that starts with 'dir' (like 'directory'). But that's just my opinion.... Brian

Okay--then would you mind educating me a bit? Define price fixing please. Brian

Price fixing is an agreement between business competitors selling the same product or service regarding its pricing. In general, it is an agreement intended to ultimately push the price of a product as high as possible, leading to profits for all the sellers. Price-fixing can also involve any...

Ah--gotcha. Exactly. But the decision about whether or not I feel comfortable servicing my own regulators should be left up to me. If I'm not confident in what I'm doing I can always seek out a knowledgable service center. If, on the other hand, I AM comfortable servicing them I should be...

Yes, you give up those things by buying from an unauthorized dealer. My point is that you shouldn't HAVE to. If we got rid of all this authorized v. unauthorized mumbo-jumbo then we'd get the same type of support no matter who we bought from. Market forces would control pricing and the...

Okay, I can see how what I said was confusing. What I mean was that anyone can fill out a warranty card and send it in. If the 'purchase from an authorized dealer' requirement didn't exist, I could send in the card myself and still get the same information. Make more sense? You're not going...

Let's see... I can get recall information for myself directly from the manufacturers web site, or I can fill out the warranty card and the manufacturer will contact me directly. Don't need the retailer (authorized or otherwise) for that one. The product manual tells me how frequently to...

The difference here is that, by law, a surgeon must be board certified in order to practice medicine. There is no such law applying to the manufacture of scuba gear. Who authorized ScubaPro, Aqualung, Dacor (pick your favorite company) to manufacture dive gear? Nobody did! Besides, what...

You're right--ScubaPro is not the only company (in the Scuba Industry) doing it. However I believe it is illegal. It's a violation of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. Under the act, the US Supreme court has deemed three types of conduct to be so lacking in economic justification that they are per...

I'll be among the first to admit that there are distinct benefits to buying a product from a local dealer as opposed to shopping on line. However I think it's unfair that the 'minimum pricing policy' prevents the local dealer from adjusting his price to compete with the on line merchant (if he...