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I still use my SkinnyDipper, and have never had a problem with this one*. Honestly have no idea when I bought it. Just that I was much, much younger. * - first two SkinnyDippers I received jammed during the initial scrolling. Orca replaced both at no cost. Third one worked; still does.

Thanks, Giffenk. The digital strobes are a different world for me. I shot UW pix for a long time - with a Nikonos V, 15mm lens and an Ikelite 150, until they became virtually obsolete. Now I'm getting back in, as much as I can afford.

Nice, JFE! I'm putting together a J1/WP-N1 system; your work gives me hope!

Thanks, Jack! I'll look into it.

Hi, folks. Question: Is there an UW strobe - Ikelite, whatever - that can be used with a Nikon 1 housing (WP-N1) for the Nikon J1? Photos, not video. I'm assembling an UW digital package of a J1 with the Nikon-specific housing. But the strobe unit costs around $750. Since I got the camera and...

Missing diver is still missing, six days later. That does not bode well Coast Guard on Sept. 13 identified him as: Osvaldo Lopez, age 46. No hometown or other information available.

Wow. Don't think I've ever heard of something his egregious in diving. And I'm not young. Wonder how he thought it would last? A link to the full complaint is below; it's worth a read for grim details. Yikes. A "certification" with two or three dives? Release Feb 3, 2015: Attorney General...

They were still looking Tuesday...Search continued for missing Vandenberg diver; Illinois man not seen since Saturday | News | KeysNet In a separate case a boater went missing Wednesday off Key West (boat found, operator not) so resources may be diverted but it's still the general area. A...

Anthony - See private message.

Checking: Still for sale?

Congrats! Sorry, got distracted by work stuff. Stupid work.

Agreed. When there are so many cool places to dive in the Keys... But the initial reports make it sound like these folks had some previous knowledge of the quarry. Heck, how else would they know it's there? I know people come down hankering to jump in for a shore dive, and there just isn't...

If it's the quarry that I assume it is (not the Burton Drive one), it's 3 tenths of a mile south of the Bird Center, but on the oceanside, amidst a stretch of green. Pretty close to Dove Creek and Dove Sound (but apparently no channel linking them).

Thanks, it does. I know what Reb 300D can do (looking at one on my desk here) so that makes it attractive. Will let you know no later than June 9.

I live within walking distance (if I wasn't lazy) of that mm 93.4 quarry, and I have no desire to get wet there at all. Drove by there Sunday around 2 p.m. and saw a car parked at the entrance. Says I to my sweetie, "What do people do back there?" Four hours later, the car was still there...

Interested! What lenses did you normally shoot underwater? And the dome port works with...?? Thx.

Interesting point, and one that a) I'm sure will come up in the inevitable lawsuit; and b) will receive comment from SB posters with pro experience. What we don't know: How many people were aboard as passengers. There may be some kind of passenger-to-crew ratio involved there. There is a...

See reference drift dive" Post 18, this thread. FWC = Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, the investigating agency. Good 'nuff? Combined with the fact that this has been going on for a week now, and no one has contested the statement here or anywhere else that it was a drift dive.

Couple quick points: - Interesting maybe only to me: I've been out with a lot of Keys operators over the last near-four decades (first Pennekamp dive, Nov. 1972). Number of drift dives I've done in the Keys: 0. Kind of surprised to hear anyone's doing them here. I've advocated with some...

FWC report summary, verbatim. Boldface mine. Not saying its 100 percent accurate; saying its what the FWC says in its initial report: On 080911 at approximately 0910 hours a commercial dive charter vessel was operating a drift dive approximatley one mile north of Conch reef. Two divers...